[jikki]

Hisoon205

Marindo205

Marindo303

Hysoul305

Maple Whirlwind SXE 7130 (Huapu Biaofeng)

 

[Raul]

Great pictures Jikki !!

How can you post so big pictures


Maple MP SXE 7130/7130X

Maple MP 1.3 SXE 7130

Maple M303 SMA 7151

 

[m14]

how do they do in terms of sales? and do they plan to go abraod??

 

[Raul]

2004 production was about 15 000 cars. As far as I know there are no plans to go abroad yet.


JM Star Meilu 7130

 

[jikki]

Great pictures Jikki !!
How can you post so big pictures

I can get them on internet,and shanghai Maple is not far from my school~


JM Star Meilu 7131

JM Star Meilu 7132

 

[kallepetri]

Whow about?

MABLE HAIXUAN ?

Any Pics?

History of Meilu
http://www.autohome.com.cn/culture/201412/858330-5.html

 

[m_a_gamal]

2004 production was about 15 000 cars. As far as I know there are no plans to go abroad yet.

Maple is already on sale in the Egyptian market since more than 1 year.

 

[dbatch1715]

shanghai maple cars

Is this company affiliated with Geely? Many of the models and the badging look similar.

 

[jmsteiny]

Check out another thread.............

Hey dbatch...........


First, welcome to the forum! Anyway, check out another thread here under the SMA area........"Does SAIC own SMA?" In this thread, your question is answered in detail and will give you more info about SMA. In short, you ARE right - Geely IS the parent owner of SMA.

 

[Admin]

Is this company affiliated with Geely? Many of the models and the badging look similar.

yes SMA is a luxury branch of Geely like Acura is for Honda

 

[haudit23]

Hmm.... all SMA motors seem to be based on a combination of bodywork and platform from the 1991 Citroen ZX, coupled with an interior from the 1998 Citroen Xsara... interesting...:nod:

 

[m_a_gamal]

Is SMA engines are the same engines as Geely?

 

[Vitesse]

I like Chinese cars, or I wouldn't be here.

HOWEVER...

I just wonder what the point is of buying one of these when you can actually buy a Fukang Citroën ZX or Elysee?

 

[ash]

Is SMA engines are the same engines as Geely?

well since SMA is a part of geely, im pretty sure the engines for sma are from models of geely or the base engines are from geely

 

[dragin]

common engines

Ash is right....The Hisoon for example has a Toyota 8A-FE based 1.3 litre
four cylinder. After a suit brought by Toyota in 2003, Geely somehow won the rights to build it in house as the MR479Q. Geely had previously bought this engine (also found in the Geely CK) from Tianjin Industrial (home of Xiali) which is licensed by Toyota.

 

[Admin]

You dont hear too much about SMA these days...are they still planning to produce cars and keep growth up??

or will the geely group focus operations on geelys only?

 

[dragin]

lots of irons in the fire

Geely is juggling more than a few projects. It even has one in Hong Kong and so it's hard to say where Maple is going. As you may know Li Shutong's Maple Auto started with the production of Meilu in a venture with Jiangbei Machinerey up north and then moved down to Shanghai in 2003. Some said that the idea of making Citroen-based models was to cut production costs by sourcing from the already established Dongfeng-Citroen suppliers. Now it will be interesting to see what exclusive IPR comes from Maple's collaboration with Tongji University and the Shanghai Innova design house.

btw the in-house engine maker I mentioned above is called the Shanghai Maple Engine Co.,Ltd. It makes both the MR and JL series engines.

 

[zzffirst]

it is nice picture

How can put so large picture in the web?
who can teach me?

 

[jikki]

maple's coming model---MB

i don't know if it's real,just the info on the othre forums

 

[gr8]

now thats more roundy and sexy design. are you sure thats a maple though?