The Geely GS is a 5-door SUV from Geely, built from 2016 to 2024, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Under the bonnet: 1.3 L 4G13 turbo I4. Peter Horbury drew it.
The background
The Geely Emgrand S and the original Geely Emgrand GS is a compact crossover SUV, produced by the Chinese auto brand Geely Auto, under the Emgrand brand.
The original design of the Emgrand GS production car launched in 2016 was previewed by the Emgrand Crossover Concept unveiled at the 2014 Beijing Auto Show. The whole Emgrand series was originally planned as a premium brand of Geely and was launched in 2009 before being repositioned as a product series with the logo being adapted as the new logo of the entire Geely brand.
The engineering
Power comes from 1.3 L 4G13 turbo I4; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 1288 -. It shifts through a 6 speed manual / 6-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 2700 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its family tree is legible: assembly was at Linhai, China. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Chevrolet Bolt, the Ford Escort, the Ferrari 488 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Geely stablemates include the Geely GE and the Geely Yuanjing X6.