Aeolus Haoji

Aeolus Haoji

Aeolus

MarqueAeolus
Production2022–present
EnginePetrol: / 1.5 L DFMC15TP1 Turbocharger / turbo Straight-four engine / I4 / Petrol Hybrid electric vehicle / hybrid: / 1.5 L DFMC15TE1 I4 turbo + electric motor "HD1

About the Aeolus Haoji

The Aeolus Haoji (风神 皓极, also called Dongfeng Huge in the export market) is a compact crossover SUV produced by Dongfeng Motor Corporation under the Aeolus sub-brand. The Haoji compact SUV is built on the DSMA platform developed by Dongfeng for conventional petrol and hybrid models. A plug-in hybrid version called the Aeolus L8 was launched in August 2025.

From the Wikipedia article Aeolus Haoji, CC BY-SA.

The Aeolus Haoji is one of 15 Aeolus models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 2022. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Aeolus Haoji properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2020s were the current era, in which battery-electric platforms, software-defined cars and China's rise as the world's largest producer are rewriting a century of industry order. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Nissan Nissan Z, the Tesla Tesla Cybertruck, the Kia Kia EV6 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Aeolus Haoji reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.5 L DFMC15TP1 Turbocharger / turbo Straight-four engine / I4 / Petrol Hybrid electric vehicle / hybrid: / 1.5 L DFMC15TE1 I4 turbo + electric motor "HD1; kerb weight is recorded at predecessor = Aeolus AX5; drive goes through 7-speed Dual-clutch transmission / dual-clutch / e-CVT (hybrid); the layout is Front engine, front-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Aeolus story

Within Aeolus's own catalogue the Aeolus Haoji sits alongside the Aeolus A30 (2014), the Aeolus Haohan, the Dongfeng Fengshen L7, the Fengshen E30. The record names the Aeolus AX5 as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to class = Compact crossover SUV (C). Assembly is recorded at China: Wuhan.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Aeolus Haoji costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.

Specifications

Transmission7-speed Dual-clutch transmission / dual-clutch / e-CVT (hybrid)
LayoutFront engine, front-wheel-drive
Body style5-door SUV
Kerb weightpredecessor = Aeolus AX5
Wheelbase2825 mm
AssemblyChina: Wuhan
Designerclass = Compact crossover SUV (C)
PredecessorAeolus AX5
Catalogue IDQ116769234

Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.

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What it costs to run

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