Geely does not build many cars like the Geely Borui GE: a 4-door fastback sedan with 1.5 L turbo direct injection Gasoline, built from 2018 to 2022 as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Its designer of record is Peter Horbury.
Where it came from
The Geely Borui, marketed as the Geely Borui GE (Chinese: 吉利博瑞GE; pinyin: Jílì Bóruì GE) until 2020, is a mid-sized sedan that was produced by the Chinese automaker Geely from 2018 to 2021. Mild hybrid and plug-in hybrid forms were also provided. The model was unveiled in March 2018, and went on sale on May 28 the same year.
Under the skin
Under the skin sits 1.5 L turbo direct injection Gasoline; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. Kerb weight is 1600 -. The gearbox is a 7-speed 7DCT DCT / 7-speed 7DCTH DCT (Borui GE PHEV). The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2870 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
In context
Where it sits in Geely's history is not in doubt: the Geely Borui came before it; the Geely Galaxy Starshine 8 followed it. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Porsche Taycan, the Tesla Model 3, the Chevrolet Bolt. Nearby in the Geely catalogue sit the Geely GE and the Geely Yuanjing X6.