After revealing details about the interior design of SAIC-GM-Wuling’s newest commercial vehicle family member, the pre-order process for the all-new Wuling Journey pickup is under way in China. Starting on Monday, February 22nd, the second General Motors joint venture in the Asian country began recording the first anticipated sales of the Journey, also known as the Wuling Zhengtu, in its main market.
The all-new Wuling Journey has generated high buzz among customers and the general public in the Chinese market as the first specially designed and dedicated pickup in the 35-year history of GM’s best-selling brand in China. In fact, since its official introduction earlier this month, dealers have received more than 4,000 spontaneous orders in just two weeks before the official start of the process.
To capitalize on the model’s huge interest, SGMW is currently offering the all-new Wuling Journey in two initial variants called Aggressive and Pioneer, along with a special introductory price. In addition to Wuling’s extensive network of local distributors, customers will be able to pre-order the new Journey through official online sales channels, where various payment benefits and special financing plans are offered.
Although it has not yet been officially announced, the formal launch of the new Wuling Journey pickup in the Chinese market should occur sometime in March, and as usual in that country, deliveries of the vehicle will immediately begin. By then, the joint venture will have revealed all the trim levels and more details about the first “youth-focused truck” that will seek to meet the needs of young entrepreneurs in China.
Aesthetically, the all-new Wuling Journey stays true to the “mechanical aesthetics” design language that the brand applies to both the exterior and interior of its entry-level vehicles carrying the original red logo. The pickup stands out for including a highly modular system where the side panels of the cargo box can be lowered as well as the tailgate, forming a three-sided platform that enhances versatility.
The all-new Wuling Journey will go on sale next month as an exclusive vehicle for the Chinese market, where Wuling hopes to launch a new category of trucks and further expand its broad sales leadership in the commercial vehicle segment. In addition to the standard model, SGMW has also unveiled three special editions of the new Journey that anticipate an upcoming range-topping variant. Here are the pre-order prices:
- 2021 Journey Aggressive: 59,800 CNY ($9,250 USD at the current exchange rate)
- 2021 Journey Pioneer: 63,800 CNY ($9,870 USD)
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Keep it over the.
Leave it to the Chinese to want something that looks like that.
Is that a Corvette C8 logo I see on the steering wheel hub?
Did they steal that too?
@Bobert: “Corvette C8 logo I see on the steering wheel hub?”
Put your glasses on your nose, and look.
Wuling’s W and the two flags of the Corvetter — how can one not see the difference?
BTW, on “stealing”: Wuling is partly owned by GM, which also owns the image trademark of the Corvette. This means that GM would not “steal” from itself when it uses logs the company owns on this or that other product. They own it.
Whoa there Tonto.
Just a feeble attempt at being humorous.
You should have said “Thank you” for helping you to see, instead of trying to appear nasty.
Let’s hope they build them better for non export than they do for export to the US. On a positive note why can’t American builders design a truck bed like this where there is a flat load bed? I wouldn’t necessarily want the bedsides to fold down but it would really be convenient to have a flat floor especially in a midsized truck.
Look at the inside of a truck bed: the wheel wells are in the way. Why? Because they need to fit big wheels. Why are the wheels so big? Because you need them big to handle the loads from payload and towing and also to go off-road.
If you don’t, you get a Honda Ridgeline which has the same 3500 lb towing capacity as a Chevy Equinox.
Thank goodness no flat bed. You know how many people would drive down the road like that. Even if it’s under Eight feet wide they’ll forget and start cutting everything in half as they squeeze through traffic.
As they use to say, DON’T BUY NO UGLY TRUCK. Still applies today ??
Under 10 grand? I’ll take 2 please.
Will it be sold through Chevy dealers or is gm opening Wuling brand dealerships in the U.S.A.
I think Queen MaryB is violating Dementia Joe Bidens China Policy. But who knows, John Kerry just got off his Lear Jet for a few minutes to re-fuel & said “don’t go hard on the CCP Sleepy Joe, I gotta get them to agree to a climate change deal & figure out how to stop them from building 300+ NEW coal fired power plants per year.
What an unfortunate looking vehicle, it looks like it could fall over at the slightest bend in the road.
Still no matter how good it is I am boycotting everything that I can that is made in China, living in Australia we are becoming more and more concerned about the growing political aggression from China that is escalating on our doorstep.
Look! From the List of countries and dependencies by population (en.wikipedia)
1 China 1,406,792,720 17.9% of world population
53 Australia 25,753,351 0.328% of world population
Just relax.
»the side panels of the cargo box can be lowered« — which prevents this practical vehicle from being called a “pickup”, in my humble opinion.
Pickups can only be loaded from the rear or by lifting the cargo OVER the side panels instead of just on the floor of the cargo space.
Bit have a look on this gallery of images of various VW T5 double cab trucks:
on commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Volkswagen_T5_double_cab
Especially the one titled “VW T5 Doppelkabine-Pritsche-Plane rechts-hinten-offen LWS3169.JPG”.
How do you think you can work like that with a pickup?
Have you any idea of the power that China is demonstrating on our doorstep, all Chinese fishing vessels now operating within 120 miles of our North Coast are equipped as gun boats, they are regularly monitoring our shipping channels with under water drones, they have increased taxes up to 400% on our expot wine, wheat, beef, wool, barley and coal both for steel making and heating thus pricing us out of the market. They have a human armed force of 2.8 million and an autonomous Robot army approaching 1 million robots. They currently have some of the must suffisticated weaponry in the world. Australia has an armed force of approx 95,000. China is ruled by a Megalomaniac out for world dominance all at our back door
Australia’s main problem is that the racist fanasy of imposing a „White Australia“ of the conquering immigrants on a Black continent, thus dehumanizing the oppressors. The Australian ruling class sees as its identifying moment the ill fated invasion of Turkey for conquering Istanbul for the Russian Czar. Then the wars to keep Korea and Vietnam under foreign rule. In recent years to define the country not as an industrial country (exit automobile industry) but as exporter of raw materials (e.g. coal) and agricultural products, but without giving up her colonialist and imperialist pretensions — see the report in the bloody record of Australian special forces in Afghanistan. Apparently, this „White Australia“ pretends to rule over one thousand for hundred thousand Chinese. And produces fake ideas like the US talibans.
„White Australia“ needs first to make her peace with the original owners if that cintinent, and become Black and Yellow in their mind, before a united nation can find her modest place as a small nation in this world.
Well let’s look at Americas history with regard to treatment of your ancestral owners mass slauter of the Red indians by the white invaders while taking over all the viable land and assets so has your country made peace with traditional owners. What about the KKK and on going treatment of the coloured races. All of your US troops haven’t been saints during any international conflict either when you look back at all the reports of past war crimes. Our automobile industry just happend to be shut down by US owned Ford and US owned GM even though we designed and built some of the best designed cars for both companies we had no say in the closures and unfortunately not long after Toyota decide to pull production out of the country as well. I know that we may come across as elitest to you but our raw materials and our produce rate among the best in the world and we were more than happy to export to China but Chinas Xi Jinping has now decided to punish us for calling them out over calls for investigations into the origin of the Corona virus and his push to take over the South pacific region including infiltration into Australia. However he doesn’t care if he destroys the lives of his own people to get what he wants, in banning imports of our coal the country ran out of heating coal leaving citizens to freeze in the coldest winter in 50 years, the are now making steel with inferior coal that will that brittle in will not last in construction. He has done a favour with some of our other produce as other countries are paying us more than China.
So all in all how about you look inward at your own history before call us out.
Dear Michael Sherratt,
Your Whataboutism regarding USA is OK, but both Australia and USA are colonial settler states with all what this means, primarily the maximal elimination of the original population. Australia has the disadvantage that a very large part of the continent is not suited for agriculture.
The automobile industry in Australia ended, because the aussie govt ended subsidies to those companies. One should also not forget, that Peter Hanenberger as CEO of Holden and president of the australian Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries pushed for lowering or even abolishing completely import duties for automobiles, which would help the GM factory in Rayong, Thailand to produce for Australia. Hanenberger began his career 1958 as apprentice in the GM/Opel development center at Rüsselsheim, Germany, and worked the rest of his active time until retirement in 2003 for GM and GM companies.
If an automobile industry in such a small and isolated country as Australia is viable in the first place, is a question which I can’t decide.
Anyway, the ” calls for investigations into the origin of the Corona virus” shouted by Trump and echoed by the Canberra government did not seek scientific advances about the globel virom which we have to live with, but as a distraction from the abysmal failure of POTUS Trump in face of the virus pandemic, and for the Australian government a continuation of their aggressive “White Australia” politics, with a fake “international commission” as a punishing expedition in the spirit of the international troops sent to China in 1900 to crush the “Boxer Rebellion”, a first act popular resistance against the creeping colonisation and dismemberment of China.
It is time to finally break once and for all with the war against the largest country of this world, whose rise to normal living conditions will change the world to its better.
Imagine when China, this nearly one fifth of humanity, also produces their 18% of all human products, what increase this will be for the wealth of humanity as a whole!
PS: You bark upon the wrong tree when you think you hit me with your whataboutism re US imperialism. I happen to live in Germany, where I was born and grew up.
Germany
Well there is a whole new take on racism, degradation war crimes and oppression.
We’re living in imperialist countries. Robbers altogether. And you should stop supporting these warmongers.
That looks terrible!
You don’t like pickups, Dan?
I have a ZR2. It actually look like a truck from the 21st century.
ZR2? That means a Chevrolet S-10?
Well, according to images I could see, looks like this Wuling Journey, except that the side panels of the open trunk can’t be lowered: negative!
Frankly, I can’t see any use of a pickup, instead of converting it in a moving machine gun as they do in the colonial wars from Afghanistan to the Atlantic.