Hunan Jiangnan Automobile Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (), commonly known as Jiangnan Automobile () is a Chinese

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manufacturing company established in 2001 and majority owned by

Zotye Zotye Auto (; officially Zotye International Automobile Trading Co., Ltd.) was a privately owned Chinese automobile manufacturer based in Yongkang, Zhejiang, China. It was owned by Zotye Holding Group and was established in 2005 and known for it ...

from 2007 onwards, headquartered in

Xiangtan Xiangtan () is a prefecture-level city in east-central Hunan province, south-central China. The hometowns of several founding leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, including Chairman Mao Zedong, President Liu Shaoqi, and Marshal Peng Dehuai, ...

. It went bankrupt, entered reorganisation in 2021 and was relaunched in 2022.

History

The company was officially established in 2001 by the Jiangnan Machinery Group, a subsidiary of the state-owned enterprise

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acquired a stake in Jiangnan Automobile between 2006 and 2007, reorganising it in March 2007. Zotye took a 70% controlling stake while the Jiangnan Machinery Group kept a minority 30%. The aim of the Zotye acquisition was to get various production permits from the government. The company's production, initially focused on assembling

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-based vehicles, was relaunched in April 2007, later also adding

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-based models. Jiangnan Automobile assembled mostly Zotye-badged cars such as the Jiangnan TT, the

Zotye Z100 The Zotye Z100 is a City car hatchback produced by Zotye Auto. The model is available as a gasoline powered vehicle and as an electric vehicle. The Z100 was discontinued in 2017, while the electric version was relaunched in 2017 as the Zotye Cloud ...

, the

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, the Zotye 5008, the M300, the

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, the Zotye Yun 100 and others. In November 2021, the company filed for "bankruptcy and reorganisation" as part of a wider restructuring by parent Zotye in order to try stopping its own bankruptcy and liquidation. It was re-established by the end of that year, after Jiangsu Shenshang, the new owner of Zotye, completed its reorganisation process. In February 2023, news about an upcoming electric microcar by Jiangnan surfaced called the Jiangnan U2. The Jiangnan U2 vehicle body is heavily based on the Ruixiang HOEN O2 or originally, Qingchengshidai. According to the

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, in 2012 Jiangnan Automobile was ranked as the 40th manufacturer of

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s by number produced, with 117,051.

Products

Current Models

* Jiangnan U2 File:2023 Jiangnan U2 (front).jpg, Jiangnan U2

Former Models

Jiangnan Alto The is a kei car produced by Suzuki since 1979. The model, currently in its ninth generation, was first introduced in 1979 and has been built in many countries worldwide. The Alto originated as a commercial vehicle derivative of the Fronte, ...

* Jiangnan TT File:Jiangnan Alto 001.jpg, Jiangnan Alto File:Jiangnan TT front in motion 8.12.18.jpg, Jiangnan TT

References

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