Strip the Hongqi Guoya back to its specification sheet and the character is already there: Petrol engine, 280 kW. Hongqi built from 2024, in the decade the industry is turning electric. The shape is credited to Giles Taylor.
The background
The Hongqi Guoya (Chinese: 红旗金葵花国雅) or Hongqi L1 is a full-size luxury sedan produced by Chinese automobile manufacturer Hongqi, a subsidiary of FAW Group.
The engineering
The engine is Petrol engine; the output is 280 kW; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 2455-2595 kg. That is roughly 114 horsepower per tonne: brisk everyday performance. Drive goes through a 8-speed ZF 8HP80 Automatic transmission. The wheelbase is 3260 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
In the Hongqi line-up the Hongqi Guoya has a clear place: the factory was Changchun, Jilin, China. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Nissan Z, the Geely Galaxy E5, the Changan Automobile Avatr 07. Its Hongqi stablemates include the Hongqi and the Hongqi 774.