Chinese brand DFSK is set to start selling a seven-seat budget SUV in the UK this year, "targeted at the business and municipal sectors".
Named the Glory 580, it was revealed in its homeland back in 2016 under the Fengguang banner. It's built in China and Indonesia and will be imported by Dorset-based company Sokon Automotive, which claims to be in the process of "building a small professional network of respected dealers across Britain".
The SUV features a 145bhp turbocharged 1.5-litre four-cylinder petrol engine that drives the front wheels through a CVT automatic gearbox. Official economy is 38.0mpg, with NEDC-correlated CO2 emissions of 222g/km.
At 4680mm long, 1715mm high and 1845mm wide, the Glory 580 is a similar size to the Volvo XC60. However, it's set to be priced from £23,369 on-the-road, making it one of the cheapest seven-seaters on the UK market.
DFSK is operated jointly by Dongfeng – one of China's 'big three' car makers – and Chongqing Sokon Industry Group. It primarily focuses on small vans and trucks, some of which have previously been sold in the UK.
Three DFSK light commerical vehicle models, one electric, are planned to be sold here by Sokon Automotive.
Chongqing Sokon Industry Group also presides over Seres, a US-based electric car start-up that recently revealed to Autocar that it's searching for a UK manufacturing partner.
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Bit odd...
The Macaronis and Cavalinis of the world have the chippie Brexit bitterness of a people whose automotive role has slipped from innovators and world leaders to assembling Japanese knoc down kits.
You show me the British designed equivalent and we'll compare them fairly.
Dreadful
Why is anyone on this forum taking it seriously?
I clicked on the link expecting this to look terrible, But
Its not bad looking at all inside or out. Just need a better name both for the company and it.
How do you know its rubbish? Have you driven it? Have you sat in it? I doubt it. I came in here expecting it to look terrible but actually its not bad its just a pity about the terrible names both it and the company have. Imagine talking to a friend or a collogue and they ask about your car. Oh its a DFQP Glory 580
Collogue A what. Is that a computer code or somethinh lol.
Macaroni
What are you comparing it to?
Oh because it's Chinese?
Not German?
Probably!
Glory be....
Not another Chinese knock off!?
Peter Cavellini wrote:
what makes it a 'knock off' any more than an MG for example?
He's been at the sherry again...
PC always has to comment, usually with meaningless drivel. I can see elements of VW and BMW in this but you can similarities in almost all of the cars in this sector. I struggle sometimes to see the differences between Ford, Nissan and Toyota SUVs. All curves and creases in odd places.
HNY to you also.
I didn't expand on it my opinion, I thought didn't have to?, also, I'm nice, are you...being nice?