GAC Group（SEHK: 2238、SSE: 601238）(Hanzi: 广汽)adalah sebuah produsen mobil Tiongkok yang berkantor pusat di Guangzhou, Guangdong, dan merupakan anak perusahaan dari Guangzhou Automobile Industry Group.
GAC menjual mobil penumpang di bawah merek Trumpchi, mobil penumpang dan kendaraan komersial di bawah merek Gonow (sekarang dihentikan), SUV di bawah merek Changfeng Motor, mobil listrik di bawah merek Aion, dan bus di bawah merek GAC Bus. GAC menghasilkan 728.000 kendaraan pada 2012, dan merupakan volume terbesar kesepuluh. Ini adalah produsen mobil penumpang terbesar keenam di antara produsen mobil Tiongkok. Walaupun perusahaan ini terutama berfokus pada kendaraan konsumen, itu memproduksi bus penumpang besar dan truk komersial.
History
Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. was founded in 1955, and in 2005 become a holding of Guangzhou Automobile Industry Group and a joint-stock company. As of 2009 it was the 6th-largest automaker in China.
In 2009, the company acquired 29% of the Chinese sport-utility vehicle maker Changfeng Automobile, becoming its biggest shareholder. GAC purchased the remaining portion of Changfeng in 2011 completing its acquisition of the company.
Previously a backdoor listing via Denway Motors, GAC became listed under its own name on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong in 2010. In that year shareholders of Denway Motors approved its privatization by GAC. Denway Motors was subsequently delisted on 25 August 2010 and replaced by Guangzhou Automobile Group (SEHK: 2238) on 30 August 2010 via stock swap.
In late 2010 GAC purchased 51% ownership of Gonow, a midsize Chinese automaker of sport-utility vehicles, subcompacts, and pickup trucks.
In December 2010 GAC launched the new Trumpchi marque. Its initial product was based on the Alfa Romeo 166.
In 2010 GAC was among the ten largest Chinese carmakers reaching number six and selling 724,200 vehicles.
2011 saw the company retain its position as the sixth-largest Chinese automaker by production volume, with GAC making 740,400 vehicles in that year.
In early 2012, the company was listed on the Shanghai Stock exchange.
Product
Model
Trumpchi is an automotive marque owned by GAC Group and launched in December 2010.
Aion
GAC New Energy Automobile Co is the NEV arm of GAC. GAC New Energy produces their own EV brand, Aion.
Hycan
Hycan is a brand by GAC-NIO New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., a joint venture between Chinese automobile manufacturers GAC Group and Nio Inc., founded in April 2019 to produce electric vehicles. In early 2021, GAC took a controlling stake in the company, diluting Nio's share to 4.5%
Changfeng Motor (Leopaard) (discontinued)
In 2009, GAC owned 29% ownership of this SUV-maker a purchase supposedly imposed by the Chinese state as a condition of a then-upcoming joint venture with Fiat. GAC completed its acquisition of Changfeng in 2011. In 2012 Changfeng Group began moves to re-enter the vehicle business culminating in the move to a new headquarters in Changsha in January 2013 and the establishment of a new subsidiary, Hunan Liebao Automobile Co. Ltd., alongside the continuing Anhui Changfeng Yangzi Automobile Manufacturing Co., Ltd., to oversea manufacturing and marketing of vehicles under the Liebao or "Leopaard" brand.
Gonow (discontinued)
Gonow (officially Zhejiang Gonow Auto Co., Ltd.) is a Chinese manufacturer of automobiles, commercial vehicles and SUV's headquartered in Taizhou, Zhejiang and a subsidiary of GAC Group. It markets its products under the brand name GAC Gonow in China and as Gonow in other markets.
Joint venture brands
GAC Honda
Guangqi Honda is a 50:50 joint venture between GAC and Honda, which has been making a number of Honda and Acura-branded vehicles for the Chinese market since 1999. It started sales of its own brand, Everus in 2011.
GAC Wuyang-Honda
Wuyang-Honda markets Honda Motorcycles for the Chinese market.
GAC Mitsubishi
GAC Mitsubishi Motors is a joint venture between GAC and the Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors. It became operational in September 2012 following a late 2010 memorandum of understanding.
GAC Toyota
GAC Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. is a 50:50 joint venture between GAC and Toyota Motor Company which manufactures Toyota vehicles for the Chinese market. It was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Guangzhou.
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A Toyota Camry VII produced by GAC Toyota
GAC Hino
GAC Hino is a joint venture between Hino and GAC aimed at producing Hino-based trucks.
GAC BYD
GAC BYD is a joint venture between GAC (49%) and BYD (51%) to produce BYD-designed buses under GAC's brand name.
Former joint ventures
Guangzhou Isuzu
Guangzhou Isuzu Bus Co., Ltd. was a coach manufacturing joint venture between GAC (51%), Isuzu Motors (33.67%) and Isuzu (China) Investment Co., Ltd. (15.33%) that was established on 6 March 2000. Isuzu light trucks and buses were also built by Guangzhou Yangcheng Automobile (羊城汽车), a joint venture with Hong Kong China Lounge Logistics. Their light trucks are based on the Isuzu Elf and are marketed under the "YCACO" brand. Yangcheng's various bus building operations were merged with Guangzhou Isuzu Bus and Denway into the Guangzhou Bus Co., Ltd. in September 2008. At the same time, Guangzhou Yangcheng's truck making arm was merged into Guangzhou Hino.
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Ycaco YC1045CSZ
Guangzhou Peugeot
One of the first Sino-western joint venture auto-making companies, Guangzhou Peugeot Automobile Co. Ltd. was a joint venture set up by PSA Peugeot Citroën and the Guangzhou Municipal government between 1985 and 1997. Over its eleven-year lifespan, the company produced about 100,000 cars.
Sales began in 1989 mainly as automobiles for government officials and taxis. Its model line comprised the Peugeot 505 and 504.
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A crew cab Peugeot 504 pickup produced by Guangzhou Peugeot
GAC Stellantis/Fiat Chrysler
Fiat signed on to a joint venture with GAC on 6 July 2009, and GAC FIAT Automobiles Co Ltd was incorporated on 9 March 2010. The new company has a production base in Changsha, Hunan Province, that opened on 28 June 2012 to manufacture the Fiat Viaggio.
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A Fiat Viaggio
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