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Native name | 上汽通用五菱汽车股份有限公司 |
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| Company type | Joint venture |
| Industry | Automotive |
| Founded | 18 November 2002 |
| Headquarters | |
Area served | China Indonesia |
Key people | |
| Products | Automobiles Microvans |
| Brands | Baojun Wuling |
| Owners |
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Number of employees | 20,000[4] |
| Subsidiaries | SGMW Indonesia |
| Website | sgmw.com.cn |
SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile (Chinese: 上汽通用五菱汽车股份有限公司, abbreviated as SGMW) is a joint venture between SAIC Motor, General Motors, and Guangxi Auto (previously Wuling Group). Based in Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, in southwestern China, it makes commercial and consumer vehicles sold in China under the Wuling and Baojun marques, respectively.
SGMW is a major mass-volume producer in the Chinese interior, in 2011 SGMW sold 1,286,000 vehicles in China, and 1,445,000 in 2012.[5] Its offerings range in price from US$5,000 to US$10,000.[6] It is also one of the largest manufacturers of microvans in China. Known as xiao mianbao che (小面包车), or "small bread box cars," these pint-size commercial vehicles are no larger than a compact car and have sold well in the poorer interior.[7] One of its popular microvans was the Wuling Sunshine. Selling more than 450,000 units per year during its height of popularity, SGMW has claimed no one model outsells it in China.[8][9]
Both SGMW and Liuzhou Wuling Automobile Industry Co. Ltd. use the Wuling brand name and the red, five-diamond "W" logo.
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- ^ For $5,000 microvan, see Samilton, Tracy (18 February 2010). "GM's $5,000 Minivan, A Hit In China". npr.org. National Public Radio. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
- For $10,000 sedan, see Shirouzu, Norihiko (18 November 2012). "GM ups capacity in no-frills China car market". reuters.com. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
- ^ For "bread box cars," see Webb, Alysha (24 November 2012). "To see the future for GM in China look at the SAIC-GM-Wuling joint venture". chinaev.wordpress.com ("Alysha Webb's ChinaEV Blog"). Retrieved 8 October 2013.
In late 2010, however, GM boosted its share to 44%, leaving Wuling with 5.9%.
- For strong rural sales, see Raghav Narsalay, Ryan T Coffey, Cherry Lu Cui and John Gong (2012). "SGM Wuling: Bringing affordable vehicles to low-income consumers" (PDF). Accenture. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 October 2013. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
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