The Geely Xingyue is the Geely that answered a simple question — how much car can this badge carry? — with 140 kW (1.5  from Petrol engine. It was built from 2019 to 2020, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market.
How it came about
The Geely Xingyue S (Chinese: 吉利星越S; pinyin: Jílì xīng yuè S, meaning "star cross"), previously the Geely Xingyue before 2021 is a compact SUV with a sloping rear roofline produced by Geely Auto. It is known in overseas markets as the Geely Tugella.
The hardware
The engine is Petrol engine; the output is 140 kW (1.5 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 1630 –. That is roughly 86 horsepower per tonne: unhurried — enough for the job, not for the bragging. Drive goes through a 8-speed Aisin Seiki / Aisin Automatic transmission / automatic (350T) / 7-speed Dual-clutch transmission / dual-clutch (300T, 400T). The wheelbase is 2700 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Geely line-up the Geely Xingyue has a clear place: the factory was Ningbo, Zhejiang. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Kia EV6, the Great Wall Motor Great Wall Pao, the Lexus UX. Its Geely stablemates include the Geely GE and the Geely Yuanjing X6.