Baojun 530

The Baojun 530 is one of 25 Baojun 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 2018. 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 Baojun 530 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. 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 Porsche Porsche Taycan, the Tesla Tesla Model 3, the Tesla Tesla Model Y — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Baojun 530 reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.5 L Daewoo S-TEC engine / LJO Turbocharger / turbo Straight-four engine / I4 / 1.8 L Toyota ZZ engine#LJ479Q / LJ4 I4 / Petrol engine / Petrol; quoted output is 104.5 – (1.5 L petrol) / 101 kW (1.8 L petrol) / 125 kW (2.0 L diesel) / 92 kW (2.0 L hybrid, engine) / 130 kW (2.0 L hybrid, motor); kerb weight is recorded at 1435 –; drive goes through 6-speed Manual transmission / manual / 5-speed Automated manual transmission / automated manual / 6-speed Dual-clutch transmission / dual-clutch / Continuously variable transmissio; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive. Worked together, those figures give roughly 73 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. 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 Baojun story

Within Baojun's own catalogue the Baojun 530 sits alongside the Baojun 310, the Baojun 560, the Baojun Lechi, the Baojun RS-3. The record names the Baojun 560 / Chevrolet Captiva#C100 / Chevrolet Captiva (first generation) / Chevrolet Equinox (Mexico) as its predecessor and the Wuling Starlight 560 / Wuling Starlight 560 / Eksion as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Assembly is recorded at China: Chongqing / Indonesia: Cikarang / Cikarang, West Java (SGMW Motor Indonesia / SGMW Indonesia) / India: Halol / Halol, Gujarat (JSW MG Motor India).

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.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Baojun 530 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.