Buick Riviera Concept at Auto Shanghai 2013

Chevrolet Sail II hatch rear China 2012-04-28

The Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (or PATAC) is a

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between

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and

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. It is a design and engineering center in

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, and is involved in engineering for

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products, but also functions as one out of six technical development and design centers worldwide of General Motors. __NOTOC__

Overview

PATAC has prepared several global GM vehicles for the Chinese market. From PATAC's own development come the

Chevrolet Sail The Chevrolet Sail () is a subcompact car produced by SAIC-GM, a joint venture of General Motors in China. Launched in 2001, it was sold as the Buick Sail in China in both in sedan and wagon form which were both based on Opel Corsa B. Following ...

and the second generation

Buick GL8 The Buick GL8 is a minivan that is produced by Shanghai GM, a joint-venture between Chinese automaker SAIC Motor and American automaker General Motors. It is only sold in China. Introduced in 1999, the first generation Buick GL8 is similar to t ...

. The facelifted Chevrolet Aveo (T200) sedan was also designed in collaboration with PATAC. The centre is also creating every two years a

concept car A concept car (also known as a concept vehicle, show vehicle or prototype) is a car made to showcase new styling and/or new technology. They are often exhibited at motor shows to gauge customer reaction to new and radical designs which may or ...

, a total of seven until 2013. Among them two concepts of a new

Buick Riviera The Buick Riviera is a personal luxury car that was marketed by Buick from 1963 to 1999, with the exception of the 1994 model year. As General Motors' first entry into the personal luxury car market segment, the Riviera was highly praised by au ...

, in 2007 and 2013. PATAC disposes of various facilities for design and for motor vehicle development and evaluation, among them a climate wind tunnel, opened on March 27, 2012. PATAC also manages together with

the 5.67-square-kilometer proving ground in

Guangde County Guangde is a county-level city in the southeast of Anhui Province, People's Republic of China, bordering the provinces of Jiangsu to the north and Zhejiang to the east. It is the easternmost county-level division of Anhui and is under the jurisd ...

Anhui Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze Riv ...

() with 60 km test roads, opened on September 22, 2012. The joint-venture PATAC is not to be confused with GM China's own GM China Advanced Technical Center (ATC), which is located in Shanghai next to the GM China headquarters.

Sources

Official web site of PATAC (Adobe Flash)

''GM China'' web page showing GM joint-ventures in China

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