SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile

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SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile is a joint-venture between General Motors and Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation of China. Based at the Guangxi Zhuang small van factory, it is the manufacturer of vehicles sold in China under the Wuling marque and specializes in trucks and van sales in the poorer interior of the country.

Sales in 2005 were 337,188 units, up 43.4 percent from 2004.

GM could use Wuling to compete with Tata Nano.

Wuling van

1 Models
2 Etsong
- 2.1 Models
3 Export
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Models

Dragon LZW1010 (to 1998)
Dragon LZW6320 (to 1998)
Dragon (from 1998)
City Breeze (under a Daihatsu Zebra licence)
Windside
Light
Wuling Sunshine

The Daewoo Matiz is also sold by Wuling as The Chevrolet Spark Le Chi.

According to a BBC article [1] posted on May 17, 2007, the Wuling Sunshine small minivan had record sales number of 460,000 in 2006. The Wuling Sunshine small van is equipped with a 0.8 liter engine, built using traditional assembly line method, and priced at $3,700 USD each.

Wuling is the second largest producer of motor vehicles in China after Volkswagen according to Auto-reporter.net^[1]

[edit] Etsong

The Etsong Automobile Co is a small scale manufacturing concern that comes under the SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile part of SAIC. Based in Qingdao, China, the factory was initially set up by Chinese tobacco company and then owned by the First Automobile Works before moving over to the SAIC group in 2005.

First built in the year 2000 the factory builds a number of Austin Maestro / Montego hybrids under the Etsong Lubao and Etsong Lande nameplates.

[edit] Models

Lande CA1020
Lande CA6440
Lubao CA6410
Lubao CA6410

[edit] Export

Wuling mini-trucks were exported in limited numbers to the United States from 2004 to 2005. SGMW USA, a Cobra Motors company, imported and distributed the vehicles. Those trucks were limited to off-road use (i.e. private property), and were primarily marketed as industrial and commercial vehicles. [2]

[edit] References

^ Auto-Reporter.net – Autoproduction in China straight 45%

[edit] External links

Introduction from GM China homepage

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