Guangxi Automobile Group also licenses Wuling brand to SAIC-GM-Wuling, the joint venture, to build passenger vehicles.
[3] Over the course of more than 60 years, the company underwent three transformative phases, evolving from tractor production to minivan manufacturing and then to group-based operations.
[6] From 1988 onwards, after Liuzhou Light Vehicle purchased license from Mitsubishi, Wuling vans are no longer illegal copies made on a large scale.
With intensified market competition, Wuling Group faced challenges in terms of funds, management, and technology.
[8] After the establishment of SGMW, the original vehicle manufacturing-related assets of Wuling Group were moved into the joint venture.
It sets up several joint ventures with reputable international suppliers in the following years, the most famous probably being the French Faurecia company.
This concerns ATVs, carts you encounter on the golf course, airport, or amusement park, modifications of commercial vehicles, and electric buses.
The main customers are the various companies and joint ventures of the SAIC conglomerate, but Wuling Liuji also supplies numerous other Chinese car manufacturers.
Guangxi Automobile Group has now established manufacturing bases in Liuzhou, Guilin, Qingdao, Chongqing, and Guiyang, forming a coordinated network between the northern and southern China.
The company has also set sail internationally, establishing overseas component production bases in Indonesia and India.
[13] In addition, in 2020, the range has also been expanded to include electric delivery vehicles based on designs already produced by the sister company SGMW, presenting a small van Wuling EV50.
The new branch was established with the aim of increasing market share and exceeding the production level of 1 million vehicles by 2030.
On September 4, 2022, Wuling New Energy and Japan ASF Co., Ltd. held the mass production contract signing ceremony of the G050 microvan project, which marks Guangxi Automobile Group vehicles entering the Japanese market for the first time.