Archive for the ‘Guangzhou Auto’ category
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 [...]
Mitsubishi and Guangzhou Auto sign JV agreement
Mitsubishi and Guangzhou Auto have officially signed an agreement that will see the two parties set up a joint venture in China within the next year. Originally Mitsubishi had an SUV building JV with Changfeng, but when Changfeng was taken over by Guangzhou Auo Mitsubishi went direct to Guangzhou Auto to set up a new [...]
Guangzhou Auto developing new car based on last generation Honda City
Guangzhou Auto is a relative new comer to the self developed sedan market, for years it has preferred to work with its joint venture partners in Honda and Toyota and more recently Fiat, than work on its own car line up. Something changed at Guangzhou Auto in the past three years where a light suddenly [...]
Guangzhou Auto’s Trumpche to launch this December
In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Guangzhou Auto’s Chairman Zhang Fangyou announced that Guangzhou’s own self developed car will launch in December this year. At the Beijing Auto Show in April this year, Guangzhou showed off its first concept sedan which is based on the Alfa Romeo 166 platform that Guangzhou Auto [...]
Guangzhou Auto buys coach maker for 1rmb
China’s central government is eager to push consolidation on the burgening Chinese car industry, but Guangzhou Auto’s recent purchase of Guangzhou’s Yue Jiang Coach Company for a mere 1rmb. According to information supplied, it appears that Yue Jiang Coaches has already gone bankrupt as of 2008 and no longer has the ability to produce vehicles, [...]
Guangzhou Auto’s first passenger car to launch soon
Guangzhou Auto, like Beijing Auto, have been left behind in the State Owned Automakers great race to develop strong self developed brands for the Chinese market and beyond. Guangzhou Auto recently bought in Alfa-Romeo platforms and engines, on which to build its own cars, which will give them an impressive leap over their counterparts in [...]
Mitsubishi talking to Guangzou Auto about joint ventures
Mitsubishi previously licensed its technology to BAIC to produce cars under the Mitsubishi name, cheifly the Pajero and the first generation Mitsubishi Outlander, later this was watered down to a mere import agreement, whilst the full on JV with SouEast seems to have floundered and appears to be without direction. Mitsubishi are reportedly entering into [...]
Guangzhou Auto’s Alfa Romeo based Chuan Qi model to launch in September
Guangzhou Auto’s first self developed sedan is to be put into production on September 28th according to the Chinese automotive media, the sedan is based on the Alfa Romeo 166 platform that Guangzhou Auto (GAC) purchased from joint venture partner Fiat, late last year. The Chuan Qi concept car was on show at the Beijing [...]
Chrylser to be made in China again within 3 to 4 years.
Chrsyler might have been among one of the first foreign automotive outfits to jump into China with Chinese made vehicles with its partner, Beijing Automotive Industry Corporation, but now it is ready to swap from the political north to the carefree capitalist southern city of Guangzhou, but will it all work? When Fiat took over [...]
Chrysler to sign up with Guangzhou Auto – to make cars in 3 to 4 years
Chrysler had their roots firmly in Beijing via their buyout of AMC who were the first Western automaker in China in 1984, since then the partnership with Beijing Auto has turned into a sales channel for North American made Dodge and Jeep vehicles, Chrysler appears to be floating jetsam in the Chinese market after the [...]
Guangzhou Auto’s first sedan to be produced in September 2010
Guangzhou Auto had a minor wow factor at the Beijing Auto Show with their self developed SUV and sedan line up. The sedan is named 传祺 (Chuan Qi) in Chinese, and is likely to be built off a Fiat platform that Guangzhou bought from Fiat prior to their joint venture deal. In 2005 Guangzhou Auto [...]
Guangzhou to produce self-branded cars this year
Guangzhou Auto Group (GAIG), which has joint ventures with Honda and Toyota, is poised to become a major player in the Chinese auto industry. GAIG announced a merger with Gonow this week, having already taken Changfeng a year ago. Part of the strategy to accomplish this goal involves the launch of a self developed brand, [...]
GoNow Motors to become part of Guangzhou Auto this month
Guangzhou Auto’s phenomenal outward growth in the past few months has taken a few Sino automotive watchers by surprise as the Chinese market continues to consolidate and the large take over the small. The last victim to be sucked into the Guangzhou Auto group is the relatively small, but plucky, GoNow Auto, which are better [...]
Guangzhou-Fiat gains government recognition production to start in 2011
Yesterday the Guangzhou-Fiat joint venture officially gained recognition from the central government and will begin production of Fiat vehicles in China by September 2011. The automotive venture will be based in Hunan province at the Changsha Economic Zone and will be carrying 5 billion RMB of investment into the area, and has registered capital of [...]
Guangzhou’s X-Power SUV to launch in 2011
Guangzhou Auto has shown an impressive number of concept cars in the past 12 months, which they are slowly putting into production. Their latest concept car is the X-Power SUV that was officially shown off last week: The X-Power SUV is based off the Changfeng CS6 platform, and will launch in 2011 according to reports. [...]
Phoar! Changfeng get their game on with Acumen hatch!
Changfeng are known as a stuffy company with their only customer being the Peoples Liberation Army and those that want a 1990′s Mitsubishi Shogun in 2009, however, this has entirely changed in 2009 with Changfeng on its way to becoming China’s Chery of the hinterlands. The Changfeng Acumen hatchback has been spotted going into the [...]
Guangzhou Auto’s Acumen brand spotted out
When Guangzhou automobile took over Changfeng automobile this year, they inheritied Changfeng’s half finished R&D project into a sedan range, Guangzhou have decided to continue where Chanfeng left off and push their self designed sedan into production. It’s not entirely clear what engine the Acumen sedan will be offering come launch time, but as next [...]
Guangzhou Auto’s fantastic city SUV, coming soon!
Guangzhou Auto are quickly becoming the one to watch design wise from the Chinese automakers with their futuristic designs that certainly give Honda a run for their money. Their latest offering, a compact SUV, was spotted near the Guangzhou Auto R&D HQ earlier this week and gives us a clue as to what the future [...]
Guangzhou Auto’s first self developed sedan spotted out
Guangzhou’s amazing array of concept cars stunned an impressed public at the Beijing Auto Show two years ago. Guangzhou currently works with two of the biggest automotive brands in the world, Honda and Toyota, has likely learned a thing or two about engineering, quality and R&D. Guangzhou Auto also recently signed up with Fiat to [...]
Chrysler and Guangzhou to make JV? Probably not.
The Beijing Morning Post today reported that Chrysler and Guangzhou are not planning to create a new joint venture in the Chinese market place, and that Chrysler plans to rely on the import method to continue sales in China. Chrysler has been in partnership with Beijing Auto Works since their buyout of AMC; which first [...]
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