FAW-GM

FAW-GM Light Duty Commercial Vehicle
Company type	Joint venture
Industry	Automotive
Founded	30 August 2009; 15 years ago
Headquarters	Changchun, China
Key people	Alexander Moinov (President)
Products	Trucks
Owner	FAW Group (50%); General Motors (50%)

FAW-GM Light Duty Commercial Vehicle (FAW-GM) is a commercial vehicle manufacturing company headquartered in Changchun, China, and a 50:50 joint venture between FAW Group and General Motors. It was founded in 2009 and its activities include the Harbin Light Vehicle factory and FAW Hongta Yunnan Automobile Co Ltd. The plants were named,FAW Harbin Light Duty Vehicle Co., FAW-GM Hongta Yunnan Automobile Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and Changchun Plant. The company builds Jie Fang pickups and light commercial vehicles, with the possibility of building models for GM to sell under their marques.^[1]^[2]

FAW-GM sold a total of 55,609 vehicles in China in 2012.^[3]

In 2019, GM withdrew from the joint venture. The company was then renamed to FAW Light Commercial Vehicle and becomes wholly owned by FAW.^[4]

Products

FAW-GM builds pickups, vans, SUVs, MPVs, 1-ton, 2-ton and 3-ton trucks and exports CKD kits for assembly in Russia, Ukraine, Mexico and Vietnam, and exports to more than 20 countries.^[5] In 2011, FAW-GM introduced a new pickup, the Kuncheng.^[6]

FAW-GM's current products include the following models:

Jie Fang Kuncheng Pickup
Jie Fang 1-ton truck
Jie Fang 2-ton truck
Jie Fang 3-ton truck

References

^ "International Cooperation". Faw.com. 2009-07-27. Retrieved 2013-01-16.
^ William Spain (2009-08-30). "GM, China FAW set light-truck, van joint venture". MarketWatch. Archived from the original on 2013-02-16. Retrieved 2013-01-16.
^ "GM 2012 global sales rise 2.9 pct on strong Chevy demand". Reuters. 14 January 2013. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
^ "The Big Read – FAW (2/5) – Trucks, vans and an Austin Maestro". carnewschina.com. 28 November 2021. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
^ "一汽通用". Fawgm.com.cn. Archived from the original on 2012-08-25. Retrieved 2013-01-16.
^ "FAW-GM Launches Kuncheng Pickup". Media.gm.com. 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2013-01-16.

External links

Official website (archived, 11 Jan 2013)

[1] "International Cooperation". Faw.com. 2009-07-27. Retrieved 2013-01-16.

[2] William Spain (2009-08-30). "GM, China FAW set light-truck, van joint venture". MarketWatch. Archived from the original on 2013-02-16. Retrieved 2013-01-16.

[3] "GM 2012 global sales rise 2.9 pct on strong Chevy demand". Reuters. 14 January 2013. Retrieved 20 January 2013.

[4] "The Big Read – FAW (2/5) – Trucks, vans and an Austin Maestro". carnewschina.com. 28 November 2021. Retrieved 3 June 2023.

[5] "一汽通用". Fawgm.com.cn. Archived from the original on 2012-08-25. Retrieved 2013-01-16.

[6] "FAW-GM Launches Kuncheng Pickup". Media.gm.com. 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2013-01-16.

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v t e FAW Group
Marques	Bestune FAW Hongqi Huali Jetta¹ Jiefang Oley Ranz² Silk-FAW Vita Xiali
Subsidiaries	FAW Bus and Coach FAW Car FAW Jiefang FAW Jilin Silk-FAW Tianjin FAW
Joint ventures and shareholdings	FAW-GM (50%) FAW-Volkswagen (60%) FAW Toyota (50%) FAW-ZAZ (50%) Silk-FAW (50%)
Vehicles	Besturn B50 Hongqi H9 Hongqi HQE Hongqi L5 Jiefang CA-10 Jiefang CA-30 Jiefang MV3 Hongqi LS7
¹A brand of FAW-Volkswagen ²A brand of FAW Toyota Category