SAIC Motor does not build many cars like the Shanghai SH760: a 4-door sedan / 4-door coupe utility / 2-door coupe utility with 2.2 L Mercedes-Benz M180 engine, built from 1964 to 1991 in the decade that gave the world the pony car and the mid-engined supercar.
Where it came from
The Shanghai SH760 is a car produced in China from 1965 to 1991 primarily for government officials not important enough to warrant a FAW Hongqi and as a taxi. The design was based on the Mercedes-Benz 220S (W180) from 1954, with modified front and rear styling to resemble an American Packard of the same era such as the Patrician 1955 model.
Originally built by the Shanghai City Agricultural Machinery Manufacturing Company, this became STAC (Shanghai Tractor and Automobile Corporation) in April 1969. The company changed its name to SATIC (Shanghai Automobile and Tractor Industry Corporation) in the mid-1980s and became SAIC in 1990. Unlike Beijing-controlled FAW and SAW (now Dongfeng Motor), STAC was owned directly by the city of Shanghai.
Under the skin
Under the skin sits 2.2 L Mercedes-Benz M180 engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. Kerb weight is 1440 kg. The gearbox is a 4-speed manual. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 2830 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
In context
Where it sits in SAIC Motor's history is not in doubt: the Shanghai-Volkswagen Santana followed it; it was built at Shanghai, China. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Porsche 911, the Plymouth Barracuda, the Ford Bronco. Nearby in the SAIC Motor catalogue sit the MG 4 EV and the MG S5 EV.
The money
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Shanghai SH760 has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.