At the end of 2009, BAIC Group acquired the intellectual property rights to the Swedish car maker Saab's 9-3 and 9-5 models and related powertrain technologies in order to support the development of its own-brand vehicles.

[2] The production version of the Senova D70 made its debut at the 2012 Guangzhou Auto Show.

[3] In July 2019, Beijing Zhida X3 started pre-sale, and the word "Senova" was no longer used, but the letter "BEIJING" was used instead, indicating that the Senbao brand will soon withdraw from the market.

[7][8] Exclusively, the Concept 900 (S900) and the C90L are first prototypes of Italian design studio Fioravanti made for Senova.

The Senova D20 sold 20,008 units from its launch in March 2012 to the end of the year.