SAIC-GM-Wuling
Among the 25 SAIC-GM-Wuling entries in the MotorJury library, the Wuling Hongguang S1 holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2015. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Wuling Hongguang S1 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 Ford Ford Escort, the Chevrolet Chevrolet Camaro, the Ferrari Ferrari 488 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Wuling Hongguang S1 reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.2 L Daewoo S-TEC engine#S-TEC II / LMH Straight-four engine / I4 Variable valve timing / I-VVT / 1.5 L Daewoo S-TEC engine#S-TEC II / L2B (B15; quoted output is 1.2 L: 77.5 PS & 110 N.m / 1.5 L: 98 PS & 135 N.m / 1.5 L DVVT: 107 PS & 142 N.m; kerb weight is recorded at 1260 –; drive goes through 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / 6-speed Schaeffler Group / Schaeffler Semi-automatic transmission / semi-automatic (clutchless manual); the layout is Front-engine, rear-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.
Within SAIC-GM-Wuling's own catalogue the Wuling Hongguang S1 sits alongside the Wuling Air EV, the Wuling Asta, the Wuling Bingo Plus, the Wuling Dragon. The record names the Chevrolet Spin (Indonesia) as its predecessor and the Wuling Hongguang S3 (China) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Chen Ming, Dong Xinwen and Zhang Wenjun / Huang Hai, Lin Wen and Xie Ying (interior). Assembly is recorded at China: Liuzhou, Guangxi (SAIC-GM-Wuling) / Indonesia: Cikarang, West Java (SGMW Indonesia).
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