Wuling is a brand of SAIC Motor.
The Wuling vehicle business passed to SAIC-GM-Wuling when the joint venture was formed on 18 November 2002, and SAIC's own brand page for Wuling opens its history on that day with the first Wuling Sunshine coming off the line.
Where it sits
Three levels. A figure marks a company boundary crossed; a word means the figure was never published.
68 years, one owner
The year is coloured by whoever held it at the time.
- 1958 Wuling dates itself to 1958 and the founding of the Liuzhou Power Machinery Plant, which built marine engines and then tractors before turning to microvans: the first Wuling microvan was hammered out in 1982 and the works was renamed the Liuzhou Micro Vehicle Plant in 1985. The owner of the 五菱 name marked the anniversary in October 2008 — "五菱人举行盛大庆典仪式，共同庆祝'五菱成立50周年'", "Wuling people held a grand ceremony to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Wuling's founding". SAIC-GM-Wuling's own company introduction begins the same way: "上汽通用五菱的前身，是1958年成立的柳州动力机械厂" — "SAIC-GM-Wuling's predecessor was the Liuzhou Power Machinery Plant, established in 1958".
- 2002 The Wuling vehicle business passed to SAIC-GM-Wuling when the joint venture was formed on 18 November 2002, and SAIC's own brand page for Wuling opens its history on that day with the first Wuling Sunshine coming off the line. SAIC-GM-Wuling puts it as "合资之后…不仅保留并发展了民族品牌'五菱'，还自创了乘用车品牌'宝骏'" — "after the joint venture it not only kept and developed the national brand Wuling but also created the passenger-car brand Baojun" — and General Motors describes the venture as "producing and selling vehicles under the homegrown brands Wuling and Baojun". The 五菱 trademark itself stayed on the Liuzhou side, now Guangxi Automobile Group, which licenses it to the joint venture and is not collected in this batch.
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No car is sold as an SAIC: the names it owns outright include MG, which stayed British in everything but ownership, while the joint ventures on its own subsidiary list build Volkswagens and Buicks for China. Shanghai's city government controls it through an unlisted parent company rather than holding the shares itself.