Start with what the Geely Borui is: a 4-door fastback sedan with 1.8 L JLE-4G18TD turbo I4, built from 2015 to 2022, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Peter Horbury, Steve Harper.
How it came about
The Geely Borui (Chinese: 吉利博瑞; pinyin: Jílì Bóruì) is a large family car/mid-size car (D-segment in Europe) produced by the Chinese automaker Geely Auto from April 2015 to 2022.
The hardware
The engine is 1.8 L JLE-4G18TD turbo I4; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 1635 -. Drive goes through a 6-speed automatic / 7-speed DCT. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2850 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Geely line-up the Geely Borui has a clear place: it replaced the Emgrand EC8; it handed the line to the Geely Borui GE. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Ferrari 488, the Chevrolet Camaro, the Ford Escort. Its Geely stablemates include the Geely GE and the Geely Yuanjing X6.