Driving home a winner. Test drive and review of the Geely GL and GS.
By Mark Andrews
South China Morning Post. 18/02/2017
In Europe in the 1980s, hot hatches were all the rage. There was the Ford Escort XR3i, VW Golf GTI and the tiny Peugeot 209 GTI. These pocket rockets offered enough performance to rattle a supercar at the traffic lights while based on an otherwise mundane small family hatchback.
China, of course, missed out on all the fun, and until recently performance models were strictly import only. Geely had a go at producing a sports car with the Beauty Leopard, in 2003, but didn’t have an engine to match the looks. Brilliance had a more coherent attempt with its Coupe, but it was ahead of its time. It wasn’t until Volkswagen started producing the Golf GTI locally that they started to gain more acceptance.
You can read the full article here
Let’s Get Started
Get in touch with Mark
All articles and photographs displayed on this web site are available for purchase with rights varying according to what has previously been sold. For most published articled this means first serial rights for the country that the publication appears in.
If you wish to speak to me about anything on this website or to discuss commissioning any work I can be contacted by:
Mobile phone
0086 13564588224
This is a Chinese mobile number. Please remember that China’s time zone is eight hours ahead of GMT.
Email Click to email Mark