Archive for the ‘Dongfeng Automobile Company’ category
Dongfeng Still in the Hummer Business
Thought the Hummer concept died with the Hummer brand? Think again. Dongfeng are Hummer mad, Dongfeng released the civillian version of their own Humvee a few months ago with a price tag of 1 million RMB for the Cummins powered vehicle, the real one imported from the US of A costs around 800,000RMB, even less [...]
First look at Luxgen 5 hatch testing in China
Taiwanese car maker, Yulong, may have hit a home run with their new Luxgen brand. Luxgen haven’t yet entered other countries other than the Taiwan-China markets but will likely do well when they expand outside of China’s borders. The first Luxgen to be made in China was the Luxgen7 SUV, the sedan is expected to [...]
Luxgen M7 MPV spotted out testing
Luxgen’s rise has been interesting to watch, they have so far followed the ‘Roewe Formula‘ which is of course to come in with high priced cars and then make lower priced cars later, its easier to come in as a high level brand with an expensive car first and then move into cheaper cars at [...]
Luxgen launches Luxgen5 sedan, with Android power
Asia’s latest auto brand, Luxgen, showed off its latest Luxgen5 sedan earlier this week just months after launching the popular Luxgen7 SUV. The Luxgen brand was developed by Yulong Motors, Taiwan’s biggest automotive company, Yulong and Dongfeng from the Chinese mainland established a joint venture in China which has already resulted in the Luxgen7 being [...]
Dongfeng releases final pictures of A60
The Dongfeng A60 is shown below, do not confuse it for the last generation Nissan Bluebird Sylphy as it is now the A60. Nissan has been overly generous with their joint venture partner, Dongfeng, the two have made Nissan branded cars in the Chinese market for a number of years but Dongfeng has been slow [...]
Dongfeng’s A60 is Nissan Bluebird Sylphy based – spy shots
Dongfeng’s own brand of vehicles has so far made only a slight splash in a big automotive ocean in the Chinese market, its Fengshen series of vehicles are based on older technology from its partnership with PSA but they are selling, now Dongfeng have used the Nissan Bluebird Sylphy as a base for the A60. [...]
Luxgen production revs up at Dongfeng Yulong
From the China Daily: Its Luxgen 7 mid-sized sport utility vehicle is now offered for presale at prices ranging from 190,000 to 270,000 yuan. The model will formally hit the market in two months, the company said. Hubei-based Dongfeng Motor Corp and Taiwan’s largest carmaker Yulon Motor Co formed the partnership in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province [...]
Luxgen SUV to launch in China next month
Taiwanese car maker Yulong and mainland Chinese car maker Dongfeng Auto have put politics aside to produce the Luxgen range of vehicles in the Chinese market, the two signed together in early 2008 and received rapid approval for the first cross straits full car project between the mainland and Taiwan. The Luxgen SUV has already [...]
Luxgen’s pure electric EV concept shown in rendered form
Luxgen are gearing up for their first entry into the mainland Chinese market in partnership with Dongfeng Auto, the Taiwanese brand is a sub brand of Taiwan’s Yulong Motors and is the first cross straights full car producing joint venture of its kind. At the Shanghai Auto Show Luxgen are expected to show their first [...]
Dongfeng B20 Crossover to launch in Shanghai later this year
Is it an MPV, is it an SUV? We’re not quite sure ourselves, but we do know that China is currently crossover crazy, anything with slightly inflated suspension and black plastic cladding seems to fly off dealer forecourts than any so called sports sedans, thus the future is going to be slightly more crossover than [...]
Honda aiming for higher than 10% growth in 2011
From Bloomberg: Honda Motor Co (7267.T) said on Friday it would target sales in China of 730,000 units in 2011, for growth of more than 10 percent from the 650,000 estimated for this year. “We expect the overall (Chinese) market to grow by an average 10 percent,” Seiji Kuraishi, head of Honda’s China operations, told [...]
Luxgen’s mysterious new sedan heading for production in China soon
Taiwan’s Yulong Auto and Dongfeng Automotive recently signed an agreement to set up production and sales of Yulong’s new luxury brand, Luxgen, in China. The first vehicle to be produced will be the Luxgen SUV which is likely to see production in China during 2011 and will be powered by a 2.2T engine that Yulong [...]
Dongfeng Luxgen’s first vehicle in rendered splendor?
Yesterday it was reported that Dongfeng and Luxgen are working together to introduce the Luxgen brand of vehicles into Mainland China, but it seems advanced plans for a Dongfeng-Luxgen designed SUV are in hand, of course these were leaked to the internet already: On the power train side of things, it is believed that Dongfeng [...]
Dongfeng and Taiwan’s Yulong ink deal to put Luxgen in China
Earlier today in Beijing, the Chairman of Dongfeng Auto Group Mr. Xu Ping He and Yulong Auto’s Mr. Yan Kai Tai announced the creation of a new partnership that will see Yulong’s Luxgen motors being produced in China. In front of 300 selected guests and VIP’s, Mr. Xu and Mr. Yan announced that the Luxgen [...]
Qi Chen – Dongfeng and Nissan’s new brand
Dongfeng and Nissan successfully launched their new brand, called Qi Chen or Venucia in English, yesterday. The new brand comes after 7 years of operations together and was launched on the same day that Dongfeng-Nissan built their two millionth car together. As the competition within the Chinese market grows, as do the players. Originally there [...]
Taiwan’s Yulong to build factory in China
From AFP: ulon Motor, Taiwan’s largest automaker by revenue, said Monday it had received the green light from China’s government to start producing its high-tech Luxgen passenger vehicle there from next year.Yulon plans to manufacture the car in a joint venture with China’s Dongfeng Automobile Co at a plant in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, with [...]
Dongfeng S30 Hybrid Sedan to launch this year
The Dongfeng S30 Hybrid Sedan is set to launch later this year according to various sources, with an exact date not yet being set. The Dongfeng S30 hybrid uses stop start technology that stops the engine as soon as the car comes to a halt for an extended period of time, for example when the [...]
Peugeot believes China market will grow 10 – 20% in 2010
Perhaps they are over estimating their figures: Peugeot-Citroen, the French manufacturer of cars, has shared that it is expecting the Chinese automobile market, which recently outraced the US market to become the world’s biggest market for automobiles, to continue expanding at a very strong pace. The firm said that it believes that compared to 2009, [...]
Dongfeng preparing a new FJ-Cruiser like SUV
Dongfeng are preparing their own FJ-Cruiser like SUV for the Chinese market. Info on the SUV is thin on the ground with only a render for expectations, however, we have learned that the above SUV (known as the Fengshen)will be slightly smaller than the current Hummer H3, and the chassis will be taken from the [...]
Dongfeng S30 hatch to be shown at Guangzhou Auto Show
Despite Dongfeng being a mass car producer for Honda, Kia, Nissan, and various other companies they’re a relative new comer to the world of self produced cars. Their first sedan was designed by the Italian firm DSG and reportedly rides on the Citroen ZX platform. Despite its aging underneath, the S30 has struck a cord [...]
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