Trumpchi
{{Short description|Chinese automotive brand by GAC Group}}
{{infobox brand
| name = Trumpchi
广汽传祺
| logo = Trumpchi brand logo.png
| logo_size = 200
| logo_caption = Logo used until 2019
| image =
| type = Automobile
| currentowner = GAC Motor
| origin = China
| introduced = {{start date and age|2010|12}}
| discontinued =
| related = Aion
| markets = Asia
Africa
South America
| previousowners =
| trademarkregistrations =
| ambassador =
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| website = {{url|https://www.gac-motor.com/en/index|gac-motor.com}}
|caption=Trumpchi logo (above) for Chinese domestic market and GAC Motor logo (below) for overseas markets}}
Trumpchi ({{zh|c=广汽传祺|p=Guǎngqì Chuánqí}}) is an automotive marque launched by Chinese automaker GAC Group in 2010.{{cite news|url=http://autonews.gasgoo.com/china-news/2011-sales-of-trumpchi-below-expectations-110824.shtml|title=2011 sales of Trumpchi below expectations|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110923182253/http://autonews.gasgoo.com/china-news/2011-sales-of-trumpchi-below-expectations-110824.shtml | archivedate = 2011-09-23 | first = Carmen | last = Lee | publisher=Gasgoo|work = Automotive News | date=24 August 2011}}{{cite book |title=Designated Drivers: How China Plans to Dominate the Global Auto Industry|first1=Gregory|last1=Anderson|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|year=2012|isbn=9781118328880|page=127|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lcPhMjzWXT8C&q=Designated+Drivers:+How+China+Plans+to+Dominate+the+Global+Auto+Industry}} The Trumpchi brand operates in the Chinese domestic market, while it is rebranded as GAC Motor in overseas markets.{{Cite news |last=Louisson |first=Peter |date=2025-02-14 |title=GAC Motor is about to enter the New Zealand market |url=https://www.autocar.co.nz/gac-motor-is-about-to-enter-the-new-zealand-market/ |access-date=2025-04-21 |work=Autocar |language=en-US}}
Name
The company's English name is a spin-off of its Chinese name, chuánqí (传祺), which translates to "spreading good fortune", and is a play on a homophone that means "legendary" (传奇).{{Cite news |last=McDonald |first=Tim |date=2017-11-21 |title=Chinese carmaker Trumpchi mulls less political name |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-42061502 |access-date=2025-04-21 |work=BBC |language=en-GB}} Its similarity to Donald Trump's name is a coincidence.
Following the 2016 U.S. election, where Trump was elected president, the company reportedly considered a name change for the American market. Executives were "taken aback by the reaction it got" at the 2017 Detroit Auto Show and on social media, where it drew negative feedback. It was eventually renamed and marketed as GAC Motor in non-Chinese territories.
History
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GAC began the construction of facilities to produce vehicles for a new own-brand automotive marque in 2008.{{cite news|url=http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90778/90860/7130077.html|title=GAC's first own-brand car|access-date=27 April 2012|publisher=People's Daily|date=6 September 2010}} The first Trumpchi model to go into production, the Trumpchi GA5 sedan, a four-door mid-size saloon car model based on the platform of the Alfa Romeo 166, went into mass production in September 2010. The first 500 Trumpchi sedans produced were delivered to the organizing committee of the 2010 Asian Games in October 2010.
The Trumpchi Sedan was formally unveiled to the public at Auto Guangzhou in December 2010,{{cite news|url=http://www.carnewschina.com/2010/12/20/guangzhou-auto-show-guangzhou-auto-trumpchi-listed-priced/|title=Guangzhou Auto Show: Guangzhou Auto Trumpchi Listed & Priced|access-date=27 April 2012|publisher=Car News China|date=20 December 2010}} and public sales of the vehicles began in the same month.{{cite news|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2010/12/21/2003491472|title=GAC unveils own-brand vehicle|access-date=27 April 2012|publisher=Taipei Times|date=21 December 2010}} The Trumpchi GS5, a sport utility vehicle based on the same platform as the Trumpchi Sedan, was launched in March 2012.{{cite news|url=http://autonews.gasgoo.com/china-news/new-gac-suv-to-make-market-debut-next-year-111129.shtml|title=New GAC SUV to make market debut next year|access-date=27 April 2012|publisher=Gasgoo|date=29 November 2011}}{{cite news|url=http://www.carnewschina.com/2012/03/01/guangzhou-auto-trumpchi-gs5-listed-priced-in-china/|title=Guangzhou Auto Trumpchi GS5 listed & priced in China|access-date=27 April 2012|publisher=China Car News|date=1 March 2012}}
The production version of the Trumpchi GA3 compact sedan was unveiled at the Shanghai Auto Show in April 2013.{{cite news|date=22 April 2013|title=Guangzhou Auto Trumpchi GA3 hits the Shanghai Auto Show|publisher=Car News China|url=http://www.carnewschina.com/2013/04/22/guangzhou-auto-trumpchi-ga3-hits-the-shanghai-auto-show/|access-date=22 April 2013}}{{cite news|date=22 April 2013|title=GAC Trumpchi GA3: Shanghai Motor Show in Pics|publisher=China Auto Web|url=http://chinaautoweb.com/2013/04/gac-trumpchi-ga3-shanghai-motor-show-in-pics/|access-date=22 April 2013}}
Models
{{see also|List of GAC vehicles}}
=Current models=
==Sedan==
- Empow (2021–present), compact sedan
==SUV==
- Emkoo (2023–present), compact SUV
- GS3 (2017–present), subcompact SUV
- GS4 (2015–present), compact SUV
- GS4 PHEV (2017–present), PHEV variant of the GS4
- GS4 Plus (2021–present), compact SUV
- GS8 (2016–present), mid-size SUV
- ES9 (2023–present), mid-size SUV, PHEV variant of GS8 II
- Xiangwang S7 (2025–present), mid-size SUV, PHEV
- Xiangwang S9 (to commence), full-size SUV, PHEV
==MPV==
- E8 (2023–present), mid-size MPV, HEV/PHEV
- M6/M6 Pro (2018–present), compact MPV
- M8 / Xiangwang M8 (2017–present), full-size MPV, ICE/PHEV
- E9 (2023–present), PHEV variant of M8
File:Trumpchi Empow IMG001.jpg|Trumpchi Empow
File:Trumpchi GS3 II IMG03.jpg|Trumpchi GS3 II
File:Trumpchi Emkoo IMG001.jpg|Trumpchi Emkoo
File:Trumpchi GS4 II 001.jpg|Trumpchi GS4 II
File:Trumpchi GS4 Plus 006.jpg|Trumpchi GS4 Plus
File:Trumpchi GS8 II 013.jpg|Trumpchi GS8 II
File:Trumpchi GM6 003.jpg|Trumpchi M6
File:Trumpchi M8 II 003.jpg|Trumpchi M8 II
File:GAC Trumpchi E9 In Guangzhou 20231214.jpg|Trumpchi E9
File:GAC Trumpchi E8 20231211.jpg|Trumpchi E8
File:Trumpchi S7 003.jpg|Trumpchi Xiangwang S7
=Discontinued models=
==Sedan==
- GA3 (2013–2014), subcompact sedan succeeded by the GA3S
- GA3S (2014–2019), subcompact sedan replacing the GA3
- GA3S PHEV (2016–2019), PHEV variant of the GA3S
- GA4 (2018–2022), compact sedan replacing the GA5
- GA5 (2010–2018), compact sedan succeeded by the GA4
- GA5 PHEV (2014–2018), PHEV variant of the GA5
- GA6 (2014–2023), mid-size sedan
- GA8 (2015–2023), full-size sedan
==SUV==
- GE3 (2017–2020), electric variant of the GS3
- GS4 EV (2017–2019), compact SUV, electric variant of the GS4
- GS4 Coupe (2019–2023), compact fastback SUV variant of the GS4
- GS5 (2011–2021), compact SUV, later renamed as GS4 Plus
- GS5S (2014–2018), compact SUV
- GS7/GS8S (2017–2021), mid-size SUV
File:GAC Trumpchi GA3 02 China 2014-04-15.jpg|Trumpchi GA3
File:GAC Trumpchi GA3S China 2015-04-08.jpg|Trumpchi GA3S
File:GAC Motor GA4, Paris Motor Show 2018, IMG 0515.jpg|Trumpchi GA4
File:Trumpchi GA5 REV 001 China 2016-04-16.jpg|Trumpchi GA5
File:Trumpchi GA5 REV 01 China 2016-04-16.jpg|Trumpchi GA5 REV
File:Trumpchi GA6 II IMG04.jpg|Trumpchi GA6 II
File:Trumpchi GA8 facelift in the showroom 01.jpg|Trumpchi GA8 II
File:Trumpchi GS4 Coupe 01 --2022-12-17.jpg|Trumpchi GS4 Coupe
File:Trumpchi GS5 II 001.jpg|Trumpchi GS5 II
File:GAC Trumpchi GS5 Super 01 China 2015-04-13.jpg|Trumpchi GS5 Super
File:Trumpchi GS7.jpg|Trumpchi GS7
File:Trumpchi GS8S IMG001.jpg|Trumpchi GS8S
=Concept vehicles=
- File:GAC Trumpchi E-Jet (25).JPG2ALL (2018), a city car
- 2U (2018), a city car
- 2US (2018), a city car
- E-Jet (2014), a subcompact sedan
- E-Linker (2011), a subcompact hatchback
- EnLight (2016), a sports car
- Enpulse (2020), a sports car
- Time (2021) a full-size sedan
- EnSpirit (2017), a compact SUV
- Entranze (2019), a compact MPVFile:GAC Motor Enverge, Paris Motor Show 2018, IMG 0608.jpg
- Enverge (2018), a compact SUV
- GA6 concept (2014), a mid-size sedan
- i-Lounge (2015), a minivan
- iSPACE (2017), a subcompact MPV
- Space Concept (2022), a Minivan
- Moca (2020), a subcompact car
- VIP Lounge (2009), a compact sedan
- WitStar (2015), a compact SUV
- X-Power (2009), a compact SUV
Sales
In 2011, 17,000 Trumpchi vehicles were sold in China, the only market in which they were then available.{{cite news|url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2012-09/17/content_15769112.htm|title=Trumpchi the latest brand in nation's export lineup|access-date=1 November 2012|publisher=China Daily|date=17 September 2012}} A total of around 32,000 Trumpchi vehicles were sold in 2012.{{cite news|url=http://autonews.gasgoo.com/china-news/gac-to-revolutionize-dealership-model-for-its-trum-121224.shtml|title=GAC to revolutionize dealership model for its Trumpchi own brand|access-date=18 January 2013|publisher=Gasgoo|date=24 December 2012}}
In September 2012, GAC announced that exports of Trumpchi cars to markets including Eastern Europe, the Middle East, South America and Southeast Asia would begin in 2013.
On 28 December 2021, GAC launched fully-imported CBU model Trumpchi GS3 Power in Malaysia through WTC Automotive.{{Cite web |date=2021-12-28 |title=GAC Motor GS3 launched in Malaysia - from RM89k |url=https://paultan.org/2021/12/28/gac-motor-gs3-launched-in-malaysia/ |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=Paul Tan's Automotive News |language=en-US}}
See also
References
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External links
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- {{Official website|https://web.archive.org/web/20201205031733/http://trumpchi.gacmotor.com/}} (archived)
{{Trumpchi vehicles}}
{{Trumpchi automobile timeline}}
{{GAC Group}}
{{Automotive industry in the People's Republic of China}}
Category:GAC Group divisions and subsidiaries
Category:Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2010