Roewe W5

The Roewe W5 is one of 18 Roewe models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 2011. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Roewe W5 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Lamborghini Lamborghini Aventador, the Lexus Lexus LFA, the Tesla Tesla Model X — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Roewe W5 reads like this: the record lists its engine as 1.8 L SAIC Kavachi Engine / Kavachi Turbocharger / turbo Straight-four engine / I4 / 3.2 L Mercedes-Benz M104 engine / M104.99x Straight-six engine / I6; kerb weight is recorded at predecessor =; drive goes through 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / 5-speed Mercedes-Benz 5G-Tronic transmission / 5G Tronic Automatic transmission / automatic / 6-speed automatic; the layout is front engine, rear-wheel drive / front engine, four-wheel drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Roewe story

Within Roewe's own catalogue the Roewe W5 sits alongside the Roewe 550, the Roewe E50, the Roewe 360, the Roewe 750. The record names the successor = Roewe RX5 (FWD/4WD) / Roewe RX8 (RWD/4WD) as its predecessor and the Roewe RX5 (FWD/4WD) / Roewe RX8 (RWD/4WD) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to class = Mid-size luxury crossover SUV. Assembly is recorded at designer =.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Roewe W5 costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.