“It’s a coincidence,” Guangzhou Automobile President Feng Xingya told Tom Mackenzie in a Bloomberg Television interview broadcast on Tuesday. Trumpchi is a transliteration of the brand’s Chinese name Chuanqi and has been around for a number of years, Feng said.

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The characters for Chuanqi mean spreading good wishes. Trumpchi cars are generally priced below foreign brands, but the brand created around a decade ago has recently seen a surge in sales thanks to rapidly improving product quality. [19] On December 11, 2019, the brand has the GS8 sold in Russia with a retail price of RUB1,898,000 ($30,368), along with a five-year/150,000km warranty and one-year of free roadside assistant service. [4] The first 500 Trumpchi Sedans produced were delivered to the organizing committee of the 2010 Asian Games in October 2010.

Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal. The brand is sold to domestic Chinese consumers, but the company plans overseas sales in the U.S. as soon as 2019 although doing so may require a name-change (due to its similarity with current U.S. president Donald Trump), in addition to meeting U.S. regulatory hurdles. [1][2] It was launched in December 2010. A Guangzhou Automobile Group Company (GAC) Trumpchi GS7 sports utility vehicle (SUV) stands on display at the Auto Shanghai 2017 vehicle show in Shanghai, China, Donald Trumps popularity appears to be an issue for the Chinese businessmen, so GAC Motor are thinking of rebranding their flagship car the Trumpchi, A Guangzhou Automobile Group Company (GAC) Trumpchi GE3 sport utility vehicle stands on display at the company's headquarter in Guangzhou, China. The characters for Chuanqi mean … Feng Xingya, GAC Group President, said: 'This is a complete coincidence, we didn't even have the slightest idea he would be president. Having a famous name doesn’t always ensure a smooth path to success. Trumpchi (Chinese: 广汽传祺; pinyin: guangqì chuanqi) is an automotive marque owned by the Chinese automaker GAC Group. The southern Chinese automaker says it now expects to enter the United States in 2019, two years later than it initially hoped, after a management change. Trumpchi (Chinese: 广汽传祺; pinyin: guangqì chuanqi) is an automotive marque owned by the Chinese automaker GAC Group. Official launch into the U.S. is now likely delayed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the US China trade war, GAC began the construction of facilities to produce vehicles for a new own-brand automotive marque in 2008. One of China's biggest automakers plans to start selling cars in the U.S., but it's facing a headache over the name of its flagship brand: Trumpchi. Journalist Glenn Greenwald blasts the media's 'cone of silence' around Hunter Biden's email scandal and... Grandmother, 61, was killed by stampeding cows that attacked her and grandchildren during country walk in... Advertising CEO 'is sacked after taking webcam into the toilet during Zoom call with colleagues'. In 2017, the company came back and showed three suvs and two sedans. The Trumpchi GS5 is based on the same platform as The Trumpchi GA5 sedan which is based on the old Alfa Romeo 166, with a few selected engines also supplied by FCA. JPMorgan Calls Turnaround on Turkey as Markets Warm to Borro... Trumpchi is transliteration of a Guangzhou Automobile brand, Chuanqi’s Chinese characters mean spreading good wishes. [21] A total of around 32,000 Trumpchi vehicles were sold in 2012.

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