April 27th, 2011
CHINESE CAR NEWS, SHANGHAI AUTO SHOW
Remember Zotye? Small privately owned fish are easy to forget when they are swimming in a sea of state owned sharks, but Zotye have managed to keep themselves independent and even steer themselves away from the mighty consolidation nets that were cast out by the central government, rumor has it that Zotye pushed away Beijing Auto Industry Corp’s advances in favor of staying independent, but Zotye tell us that they were just working with BAIC on their electric car projects.
Zotye appear to have worked an incredible amount on their new range of cars that were shown for the first time last week. The Fiat Palio based model was on show, but obviously not the highlight of the Zotye stand – the range of concepts that Zotye had on show this year were quite impressive. The easiest to spot was obviously the reskinned 5008 SUV, but the other platforms are new models introduced to widen the Zotye range away from the current SUV and MPV offerings.
Zotye are going to have a good future if and when they get these cars into production, especially as they have quietly become one of the leading pure electric vehicle companies in China over the past few years.