Archive for the ‘Greatwall’ Category
Beijing Auto Show Live: Greatwall Voleex C50
Published on April 27, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
Voleex is Greatwall’s new brand name for sedans and other normal passenger cars. Haval is the new brandname for SUV’s and Wingle for commercial vehicles such as pick up trucks. The C50 is a medium sized sedan that’ll slot above the C30 and under a new large sedan which will likely look like the C70 Concept.
Beijing Auto Show Live: Greatwall Voleex C70 Concept
Published on April 25, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
Greatwall goes into sedans, and to do that properly in China one needs a new brand. The sedans will go under the ‘Voleex’-brand name, the SUV’s as ‘Haval’ and commercial vehicles such as pick up trucks as ‘Wingle’. Three brand indeed, it makes things so much more clear. The C70 is a concept for a full size sedan to compete with machines as the new Huatai B11 and the Roewe 750.
Beijing Auto Show Preview: Greatwall Tengyi C50
Published on April 18, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
This is the new Greatwall Tengyi C50, a very well looking sedan that will slot nicely above the new C30 we saw earlier this week. There is however, not the slightest doubt that Greatwall will find space for a C40. Greatwall went translating again and came up with the English name for Tengyi, 腾翼, it became
Voleex! A new name is born. The C50 will get 1.8 and 2.0 engines and price will start around 140.000 rmb.
Beijing Auto Show Preview: Greatwall Haval SC60
Published on April 18, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
First a correction of an error made by me: when we learned that Greatwall was launching ‘Hover’ as a seperate brand we assumed they would use their normal English translation of 哈弗, Hafu, translated by Greatwall as ‘Hover’.
They didn’t. Instead Greatwall made it ‘Haval’, in Chinese still the same 哈弗, Hafu. The English name ‘Hover’ is now likely to dissapear. Sorry for any confusion. Greatwall-Haval, the name doesn’t sound too well, will bring a bunch of new suv’s to the Beijing Auto Show. This big SC60 is one of them, it comes as a prototype and so far the engine is unknown.
Greatwall Tengyi C30 (CH041) is OUT
Published on April 16, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
It still has the CH041-codename license plate but this is the new Greatwall Tengyi C30 mid size sedan to compete with cars as the Toyota Carolla and BYD F3. Power comes from a 1.5 litre four cilinder with 77kw and 138nm. Price starts around 60.000 rmb.
Beijing Auto Show Preview: Greatwall Hover M3
Published on April 14, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
Another one from Greatwall’s brandnew Hover-brand. This is the M3, codenamed CH071. It will slot right above the coolish M2 that hit la market in March. It loox the same as an M2 in lenght so likely it is made on the same platform and meant for folks who don’t want the M2′s madness.
Beijing Auto Show Preview: Greatwall Hover SC30
Published on April 12, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
The Greatwall-Hover SC30 will debut as a prototype. It is a very luxury suv/crossover meant to compete with machines as the Infinity FX, VW Touareg, Porsche Cayenne and Volvo XC90. No word on the engine yet.
Beijing Auto Show Preview: Greatwall Hover H6 SUV
Published on April 12, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
Greatwall made ‘Hover’ a brand and will bring at least three of ‘m to the Beijing Auto Show. Last week we saw the first live pictures of the euro-bound H5 and this is it’s sportier brother, the H6, for the Chinese market.
Greatwall-Hover H5 is OUT
Published on April 10, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
Greatwall turned their good old Hover into a separate brand, this in line with almost all Chinese manufacturers. Motto seems: “brands, you can’t have enough of ‘m!” This is the new Hover H5, meant to crack Europe. The old Greatwall Hover is already for sale in several countries in Eastern Europe and in Italy in Western. The H5 is said to come with better safety-thingies so it can go all the way in the Old Continent. Nice idea, but that ancient 2.4 litre Mitsubishi 136bhp engine won’t help.
For the Beijing Auto Show: Great Wall CHC011
Published on April 9, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
Great Wall will bring a many new cars to the Beijing Auto Show but this one seems the most interesting. It is (code?) named CHC011 and is Great Wall’s take on a large sedan. It’ll debut as a prototype with a new 2.5 litre engine with 185hp@4000rpm and 400nm@1800-3000rpm. The picture above comes from a leaked brochure and it’s the only one so far.
