Shanghai 2009: Great Wall CHCO11 balances concept kit with production body
by Damon Lavrinc on Apr 21st 2009 at 8:28AM 
Great Wall CHC011 - Click above for a high-res image gallery
What may have started off as a Mercedes-Benz CLS clone quickly evolved into something slightly more original – assuming you view it from the front or rear. The Great Wall CHC011 is quite a departure for the Chinese automaker, primarily known for low-cost trucks and SUVs in its home market. In addition to going with an alphanumeric name that's all the rage in the west (bear in mind, this is the same company that gave us such gems as the Coolbear, Gwkulla and Socool) the CHC011 takes the popular "four-door coupe" aesthetic, throws in some highly stylized head- and tail-lamps, and adds a 3.0-liter V6, six-speed automatic transmission, adaptive cruise control, electronic stability control, eight air bags and a ten-way adjustable driver's seat. And with "executive seating" in the rear, you'll easy forget about the poorly proportioned wheels GW pilfered from Discount Tire.
Gallery: shanghai 2009:greatwall chc011
[Source: Autoblog Chinese]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Swede 8:33AM (4/21/2009)
Nnnnnnnnno.
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Sektor 9:00AM (4/21/2009)
What in the world is all that confetti about?
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Taglane 12:06PM (4/21/2009)
Don't you know? They have successfully mated a toucan to an automobile.
Sektor 9:02AM (4/21/2009)
And CHCO11 is just a code. They are going to give it a proper name if it ever enters production. Hopefully they'll also tone down the lights and the stupid-looking grille.
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Luis 9:03AM (4/21/2009)
Why should they tone it down? The Chinese have little to lose and need to have their products stand out from the crowd. Keeping some flair is one way to do that.
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wa5if 9:25AM (4/21/2009)
front reminds me of the ford mondeo
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srivendel 9:31AM (4/21/2009)
Zzzzzz... I don't know how much more of this Chinese pablum I can stomach. It has turned Autoblog into the most boooooring blog on the Interwebz. Seriously: thse cars are styled like crap, most likely drive like crap, will (hopefully) never be sold in America, so WHO CARES?? Can you please condense your coverage of this junk to one or two posts per day? I realize there's an auto show going on in Shanghai, but the average reader's interest level is gonna be pretty minimal.
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Sektor 9:48AM (4/21/2009)
As much as you want to discredit China, they are going to be 2009's largest automarket AND automaker (in numbers). GM's own survival depends, among other factors, on how well it does in China. So, with a decadent American auto industry and a rising Chinese one, the Shanghai Autoshow does have some relevance in the auto industry as a whole, probably as much as an autoshow in Detroit.
Reader 10:22AM (4/21/2009)
I have to say I'm somewhat interested, seeing as these will probably be our future cars in the decades to come.
joe23521 10:28AM (4/21/2009)
I'm gonna guess the entirely uninterested only amounts to a small minority of the Autoblog readership. You know, some people actually do want to know what goes on outside their apparently very small comfort zone.
carlbolt 10:30AM (4/21/2009)
you sound like a whining baby.
By no means these Shanghai Motor Show coverages are boring, regardless the car showed here good or bad. Remember this website is all about cars. If you don't like them you can just walk away, nobody will care about. Autoblog did very good job to cover every major autoshow in the world regardless it's in US, Japan, Europe or China.
srivendel 11:29AM (4/21/2009)
Hold your horses, Tonto. I never said I didn't want to hear about China at all. I asked that the Shanghai auto show posts be condensed into one or two posts per day. I mean seriously, you give a crap about the Great Wall CHC011? Really? I don't believe you.
The rise of China's auto industry is certainly important news and, when these cars start to become class competitive or are about to arrive in America, I'll care a whole lot more. But for the time being, information about individual cars like the Great Wall CHC011 strikes me as pretty darn marginal. Sorry.
Big Rocket 1:05PM (4/21/2009)
@srivendel: Why the need to limit posts at all? First, Autoblog is a website, not a publication in which coverage of one subject matter results in less coverage for other subject matters due to limitations in page count. Second, there are Autoblog readers who have asked for a reduction in posts on Mustangs, Prius, Chinese cars, recall notices, bailout news, etc, etc, so where do we draw the line? Third, if you are not interested in posts about boring Chinese cars, just go ahead and skip the posts, and let others decide for themselves what they want to read.
Jake B 2:52PM (4/21/2009)
This news is about as exciting as an announcement of a new Dodge Avenger trim package.
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Harrison 5:21PM (4/21/2009)
They kept that name?
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tekd 7:41PM (4/21/2009)
I hope they change the name before production...it just doesn't quite slide off the tongue there, not in any language I know lol.
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