Changan Alsvin

This is the catalogue record of the Changan Alsvin, one of 52 models Changan Automobile has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 2009. 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 Changan Alsvin properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. 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 Jeep Jeep Grand Cherokee, the Tesla Tesla Roadster, the Nissan Nissan Leaf — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Changan Alsvin reads like this: the record lists its engine as 1.5 L JL475Q7 I4 (petrol); quoted output is 74 kW (99 hp; 101 PS) (1.4 L petrol) / 78 kW (105 hp; 106 PS) (1.5 L petrol); kerb weight is recorded at predecessor =; drive goes through 5-speed manual / 4-speed automatic; 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 Changan Automobile story

Within Changan Automobile's own catalogue the Changan Alsvin sits alongside the Avatr 06, the Avatr 07, the Avatr 11, the Avatr 12. The record names the successor = Changan Alsvin V5 as its predecessor and the Changan Alsvin V5 as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to class = Subcompact car/Supermini (B). Assembly is recorded at designer =.

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

The catalogue records what the Changan Alsvin was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.