Archive for the ‘Great Wall Motors’ category
Great Wall’s IF concept car for Shanghai Auto Show
Great Wall Motors (GWM) are a great company, they have wide line up of cars from big SUV’s to little sedans and they are certainly on CCT’s list of Chinese car companies that are going to make it internationally. GWM’s big concept for the forth coming Shanghai Auto Show is the below Great Wall IF [...]
Great Wall’s C70 mid size sedan spotted
Ahead of every major auto show car makers like to reveal their products ahead of time with spy pictures taken with phone cameras, Great Wall are no exception to this rule. The C70 looks to be a variation of the Great Wall Sports Sedan that we saw in 2009 but we didn’t hear anything from [...]
Great Wall may not be Jaguar-Land Rover’s Chinese partner just yet
Wang Fengying, president of Great Wall, recently denied the media report that Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) would partner with Great Wall by saying that Great Wall had no intent on opening a joint venture. Media reported previously that the related personnel from JLR had visited Great Wall’s Baoding headquarters and Tianjin-based production site this February. [...]
Hover H6 sighted ahead of launch with Hover brand
Greatwall claimed a home run when they first produced the Hover SUV which later gave birth to the Hover brand, although GWM did not have the foresight to register the Hover brand in international markets and thus lost out on a cool marketing opportunity, instead it has been renamed Haval for international markets. The H6 [...]
GWM’s Hover H6 to launch in first quarter of 2011
Greatwall Motors are still pushing ahead with their plans to considerably expand the Hover line up of vehicles to include a greater range of SUV’s both large and small. The H6 will be one of the flagship vehicles in the range and is a break from the Hover H3 inspired vehicles with it being a [...]
Greatwalls Hover M3 spotted out
Greatwall Motors are prepping the Hover M3 for production according to recently leaked reports which include spy shots of the car. At the Beijing Auto Show in 2010 we saw a similar model although it was likely to be at the pre-production model whilst the below model is certain to be the production model. The [...]
Greatwall sees sales increase by 77%
As if overnight Greatwall Motors has turned itself into one of the mid league players in the Chinese market, its 2010 sales increased by 77% over 2009 and helped it to sell 397,000 vehicles in the Chinese market in 2010. Greatwall has successfully steered its way from being purely an SUV maker and into a [...]
Greatwall setting up European shop in Bulgaria
From The NY Times: Sometime next summer, a brand-new assembly plant here should begin turning out the first Chinese-branded cars in the European Union.Why build a factory in this goat-trodden village in the foothills of the Balkans? Credit a local tycoon who wants to provide jobs for his neighbors — and a desire by Chinese [...]
GWM Florid launches in Dubai…
It’s hard to imagine a GWM Florid in downtown Dubai where super cars and gigantic SUV’s are the order of the day, but perhaps in a post 2009 economic climate even the rowdiest of Sheik’s are having to downsize to keep their country afloat in turbulent waters. From Khajlee Times: A Chinese hatchback that is [...]
Greatwall’s Tengyi C50 sedan spotted out testing
Greatwall Motor’s Tengyi C30 sedan has already gotten off to a great start in the compact motor segment (despite the initial complaints), GWM plans to expand the line up to include the larger C50 and then an even larger model at some point in the future. Spy pictures of the C50 have already been leaked [...]
GWM’s high end car in rendered form
Great Wall Motors (GWM) once displayed a wonderful sports concept sedan in April 2009 but is taking its time to get the concept to the production stage. The rendering to the left is apparently one of GWM’s first shots at building a production ready sedan, the sedan may look rather basic in the renderings but [...]
Hover H6 spotted out in factory grounds (in a state)
The Hover H6 was on show earlier this year at the Beijing Auto Show and was one of the finer models on show due to it looking rather unique and not like a Hover H3 but with a different nose as with the other Hover models. It’s not clear if the H6 is based on [...]
Great Wall Motors planning world standard research center
As reported several days ago, Great Wall Motors (GWM) are planning to become one of the worlds largest SUV makers and plans to take at least 8% of the world SUV market by the year 2020. GWM have plans to put 5 billion RMB ($750 million USD) into their R&D efforts in order to achieve [...]
GWM planning to become one of the worlds Top Three SUV makers and take 8% of world market
Greatwall Motors (GWM) is a relative new comer to the small car market, but they did carve out an impressive niche for themselves as an SUV maker within China and also in overseas markets, other Chinese car makers have tried to follow in their footsteps but have not had as much luck as GWM have [...]
Greatwall Hover M3 and M2 AWD to launch soon
Greatwall are aggressively expanding their new Hover line up with new models and aim to add yet more compact SUV’s to their dealerships. Greatwall are now selling all of their SUV’s under the Hover (or Havel if you’re overseas) brand, their latest addition was the M2 compact SUV which is based on the Coolbear platform [...]
Greatwall’s new crossover SUV sighted
So far Greatwall’s SUV range have all been based on traditional chassis, which makes them great for hauling stuff which needs to be hauled, but it doesn’t give them great fuel economy and also keeps them large in size, the way forward for many other companies is to ditch the traditional body on frame SUV [...]
Hover H5 launched – priced from 92,800rmb and rising
The Greatwall Hover H5, known as the Hover ‘Euro Spec’ model has launched today and is likely to become one of the models that is at the forefront of GWM’s European expansion plan. For the Chinese market the H5 will come with a choice of three engines, and in three specifications for each. The base [...]
Greatwall planning to invest 5 billion RMB over 5 years
Greatwall are making great headway with their plans to become a major automotive player in the Chinese market with their mixture of SUV, pick up truck, and small car range which gives them a finger in many different pies, however Greatwall Motors (GWM) are planning to invest a lot more into their operations over the [...]
Greatwalls i7 Crossover to launch later this year
Greatwall are on a wall with their small car range, despite some small hiccups along the way that made them rethink their European strategy, their Chinese plans are going extremely well. Their latest small car is a crossover version of the i7 hatchback, although it appears to have lost its interesting grill and front end, [...]
Greatwall sales up 87.6% in first half
Greatwall announced today that its year on year sales for the first half of the year were up an amazing 87.6%, whilst the rest of the market appeared to have suffered slightly in June, Greatwall continued on strong. In the first half of the year, Greatwall Motors (GWM) sold 72,000 of the flagship Hover series [...]
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