Forthing T5 EVO

This is the catalogue record of the Forthing T5 EVO, one of 10 models Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor Company has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 2020. 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 Forthing T5 EVO 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 Tesla Tesla Model Y, the Kia Kia EV6, the Porsche Porsche Taycan — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Forthing T5 EVO reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.5 L 4A95TD Turbocharger / turbo Straight-four engine / I4 / Petrol Hybrid electric vehicle / hybrid: / 1.5 L 4E15T CT-E I4 + electric motor / Petrol Ran; quoted output is 145 kW (petrol) / 180 kW (hybrid) / 75 kW (engine; REEV) / 120 kW (REEV) / 150 kW (EV); kerb weight is recorded at 1500 kg; drive goes through 6-speed Manual transmission / manual / Continuously variable transmission / CVT / 7-speed Dual-clutch transmission / dual-clutch / Dedicated Hybrid (DHT) (hybrid) / 1-speed direct-; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, front-wheel-drive (petrol & HEV) / Front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine + Front-motor, front-wheel-drive (RE. Worked together, those figures give roughly 97 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 Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor Company story

Within Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor Company's own catalogue the Forthing T5 EVO sits alongside the Dongfeng Fengxing Jingyi X3, the Dongfeng Forthing U-Tour V9, the Fengxing Jingyi X6, the Fengxing S500. The record names the successor = as its predecessor and the sp = uk as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Henning Knoepfle / Gai Wei. Assembly is recorded at China: Liuzhou (Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor) / Iran: Khomein (Arian Pars Motor).

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

The catalogue records what the Forthing T5 EVO 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.