[dmitra]

New 7-seat SUV, the first product from the restructured company Brilliance Renault Jinbei Automotive Co., Ltd. The SUV has a Chinese name but it is illegible. Since Renault entered into the JV only about 6 months ago, unlikely there was any input from the French auto giant in the development of this vehicle. Powered by 1.5T or 1.6L engine.

http://data.miit.gov.cn/viewCar?carId=165729#
http://data.miit.gov.cn/viewCar?carId=165778#

 

[dmitra]

Re: Jinbei Guanjing (new SUV)

According to MIIT, the car may be named Guanjing (观境).

 

[dmitra]

Jinbei Guanjing

Outside the Guangzhou Auto Show venue:

https://www.autohome.com.cn/news/201811/925054.html
http://news.cheshi.com/dujia/20181114/2985909.shtml

[Before the show opens, I will try to post previews on some of the more interesting cars, only if such articles include pictures of reasonably good quality. Later we can have the show galleries as usual]

 

[dmitra]

Jinbei Guanjing @ 2018 Guangzhou Auto Show

 

[dmitra]

https://price.pcauto.com.cn/chezhan/s42312/
https://car.autohome.com.cn/chezhan/exps107/4992.html

 

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[CCF mod]

https://car.autohome.com.cn/pic/series/4992.html
https://car.autohome.com.cn/pic/series-s36430/4992.html#pvareaid=2042220

More at:
https://car.autohome.com.cn/pic/series-s38184/4992.html#pvareaid=2042220

 

[dmitra]

Brilliance-Renault Guanjing

The C-pillars are asymmetric w.r.t. right- and left-hand sides. Anybody discovered this on any other model, Chinese or otherwise?

Photos from Bitauto

 

[dmitra]

Launched:
https://www.autohome.com.cn/news/201904/934373.html#pvareaid=102624

 

[ausrutherford]

So what is the brand name? Jinbei?

 

[dmitra]

No, they are not using any of the established brand names like Jinbei or Huasong for this one. Neither is there any such brand-indicative badging on the car except "Huachen Leinuo" on the rear. The logo too is not that of Jinbei proper but a curvier, fatter "cup" derived from the Jinbei logo.

In the absence of a defined brand, I guess we will have to do with "Brilliance Renault" or "Renault Brilliance" (In the English name of the company, the order of these two words is reversed).

In some of the early posts of this thread, we used "Jinbei" only under an assumption.

On their website, it is simply featured as "Guanjing" whereas the older models like the Haishi, Geruisi, and F50 are denoted as "Jinbei":
https://www.renault-brilliance.com/

 

[Lawrence]

Ausrutherford, the following statement from the website that D Mitra provided, may make this (unconventional) Renault-Brilliance joint venture, clearer with regard to the end of the subsidiary name "Shenyang JINBEI Passenger Manufacturing Co., Ltd.", as we knew it..,and the brands in question.

"In January 2018, Renault SAS formerly became a shareholder and a joint venture partner of Renault Brilliance Jinbei Automotive Co., Ltd. (“RBJAC”, formerly known as Shenyang Brilliance JinBei Automobile Co., Ltd.), the Group’s major operating subsidiary in the PRC. Currently, RBJAC is owned as to 51% by the Group and 49% by Renault, respectively. It is planned that RBJAC will engage in the manufacture and sale of LCV products under the JinBei, Renault and Huasong brands. The first goal of RBJAC will be to try to invigorate the JinBei brand and then to manufacture the Renault LCVs in the PRC by 2020."