Archive for the ‘Geely Automobile’ category
Geely’s 2011 Sales Miss Target
Hangzhou based Geely Auto missed their 2011 sales goal due to a slow down in the Chinese auto market over the course of last year. Sales rose just 1.2% in 2011 according to a statement the company issued to the Hong Kong stock exchange earlier today. December sales for Geely stood at just 47,755 units, [...]
Geely’s IG concept heading for the production lines, gullwing doors included.
After years of seemingly running around in the automotive desert making odd car after odd car, Geely got its act together and announced they were buying Volvo, but with great automotive brands comes great pressure, they set up the Emgrand, Geely Global Eagle (Gleagle) and Englon brands within China and slowly but surely pushed the [...]
Geely fits 6 speed gearbox to Englon SC7
The Englon range of cars was set to be Geely’s low end affordable range, but now it seems that its going to be receiving a technology infusion in the form of DSI’s 6 speed automatic transmission. DSI are an Australian gearbox manufacturer that fell under Geely’s control in early 2009, at the time DSI were [...]
Geely eager to enter the UK market
Whilst other Chinese manufacturers are busy entering developing markets, only SAIC have been able to grab the bull by the horns and enter a mature Western market with its products. The MG6 launched in the UK earlier this year and was quickly followed up by the launch of the MG6 Saloon which is essentially the [...]
Englon SC6-RV rendered ahead of production
When we first heard of Geely’s plans for a multi brand line up we have to admit we were incredibly skeptical, how could a small privately owned company pull off a multi-brand strategy when their core brand was seen as a low cost economy brand? Well of course the big problem was that its core [...]
Geely’s GX7 SUV out in the open at a dealer
Geely’s Global Eagle brand, which they have called Gleagle, is about to spawn its first SUV. The GX7 was first unveiled in concept form at the Beijing Auto Show in 2010 where it was eager to show there was another Chinese SUV in town to rival the Chery Tiggo3 and the Great Wall series of [...]
Volvo to produce 100,000 Volvo’s in Daqing City
Information leaked from the Chinese Ministry of Environment Volvo China have put forth their plans for Chinese production to the central government. The Swedish brand, which is owned by Geely, is aiming to crack the Chinese market in a major way over the next decade to offset losses made in Europe and the USA over [...]
Geely expects to double its car exports in 2011
From WSJ: Chinese car maker Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd. (0175.HK) said Wednesday it expects to double its export car sales in 2011 amid a gradual global economic recovery.The company’s 2011 export car sales will likely reach 40,000 to 50,000 units, up from the 20,555 units sold in 2010, Chief Executive Gui Sheng Yue told reporters [...]
Geely’s MG3 fighter
Geely are planning to bring the big guns out in their fight to make the Emgrand range of cars popular in China, they launched the series with the EC7 sedan and then the hatch and then recently they launched the full size EC8, now they are readying the EC6-RV. The awkwardly named EC6-RV does not [...]
Geely’s Li Shu Fu has peons cast aside to inspect new cab
All was good on the second day of the media days in Shanghai last Wednesday, well it wasn’t all good as most of the stands had immediately shifted from PR/Media day to Sales Mode by lunchtime and not too many Chinese companies had press kits available, which is pretty typical of Chinese car companies – [...]
Geely’s Englong SC7-RV – Tomorrow’s taxi today
So you thought the modular hybrid-motorbike-car from Geely was a little crazy? The Englong SC7-RV is a little bit mature and perhaps even slightly more palatable than its other fellow concept but the design is still way out there. Geely owns a good slice of British company, Manganese Bronze, that produce the London black cab [...]
Geely to show oddball modular concept car in Shanghai Auto Show
You know, several years ago I thought the age of crazy Chinese concepts cars was practically over, but Geely has to come back to prove us all wrong. Behold: the Moka! The Moka is Geely’s attempt at showing what we might be driving in the future, a modular hybrid car that allows motorists to connect [...]
Stop start stop start: Geely Emgrand EC7 GSG mild hybrid to launch soon
The price gas in China is practically on par with a liter of locally made wine, Chinese drivers are looking to various widgets to install in their cars to lower gas prices or even moving to lower grade gasoline if they can find it in the city limits. Hybrids are something that never took off [...]
Geely takes the MINI, makes it look better
Geely are prepping a new mini car for their upmarket Emgrand range, the car is a new one on us and we had no idea that Geely had small car ambitions for the Emgrand range, however this car does look quite neat even if it does have various MINI attributes to it. Look out for [...]
Volvo to announce China strategy in February
Volvo is expected to unveil its business strategy in China for the next five years on the afternoon of February 25, and the company’s local production plan is undoubtedly the core content of the strategy. Volvo’s production site has been a hot topic for a long time. Dongguan, Beijing, Tianjin, Chengdu, Daqing, Shanghai and Shijiazhuang [...]
Volvo to make cars in Chengdu
Volvo seems to intent on making its next car factory in Chengdu according to this Reuters report. Other cities had been mentioned, including Beijing, Shanghai and for some unknown reason, Daqing, but it appears that Chengdu has won out. So why Chengdu? Because its in inland China and thus close to the next big market: [...]
Geely sales reach 45,634 units in January 2011
Geely’s January sales reached 45,634 units in January 2011 according to information released today. The sales are 4% higher than January 2010′s but 18.7% lower than December 2010′s sales. The top sellers in January were the Freedom Vessel, King Kong, Vision and also Emgrand EC7 and EC8. AshAsh came to China at 18 on a [...]
Recently launched Emgrand EC8 to get new GeTech engine soon
The Emgrand EC8 has only just been launched in 2.0L and 2.4L specification but Geely are planning to kill off the Mitsubishi engines used in the EC8 in favor of something from their own line up. Mitsubishi has long provided engines to Chinese auto makers that lacked their own self developed engines, although many Chinese [...]
Geely Panda to launch in Australia soon
Australia seems to be one of the first Western markets in Geely’s sights for its world expansion plans, it was rumored for a long time that Geely were planning to buy the mothballed Mitsubishi factory in Adelaide, but it seems that plan never took off and Geely instead bought the Australian owned DSI transmissions to [...]
Geely to push forward with new car line up in 2011
When Geely launched their Emgrand, Englon and Gleagle brands in 2010, China automotive watchers were in a state of confusion. What did Geely have to bring to the table under three new brands that they couldn’t deliver under the original and well established Geely brand? Geely went ahead with their three brand plan and knocked [...]
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