For a long time on the Warsaw’s street can meet blue Hafei Lobo, the small Chinese city car which has not been sold in Europe so far. Moreover, the car is labeled logo of the Motor Transport Institute with signed "electric car". What is it all about? Mikołaj Krupiński, a spokesman of the Polish Institute explains everything.

The news about potential investment of Great Wall Motor was revealed by Dziennik Wschodni, which relying on the direct information from the local government. According to newspaper, GWM considers assembly passenger car and commercial vehicles in the former Daewoo’s factory. Representatives of Chinese company visited Poland with the Prime Minister of China in late April. Is there any chance to implement a new project?

Polish traders are not interesting of Chinese pickups. This conclusion stems from fast dropping prices of the model ZX Auto Grandtiger produced in 2011. Dealers which has decided distributing of the car compete together who give the lowest price. Grandtiger, which normally costs less then 17,000 EUR* (without taxes) for the best version with two airbags, air conditioning and metallic color, currently is offered for 13,350 EUR*. It is very competitive price, because is equipped with Hyundai’s 2.5l (170 hp) diesel engine and three year warranty.

The registration data provided by IBRM Samar show, that only 40 Chinese cars were registered in Poland in 2011. Although this result isn’t impressive, it is more twice than in 2010, when the number of registrations was 19. For comparison, a Samar reported 13 units of models „made in China” in 2009, so Polish market is growing up.

Beiqi Foton will debut on the Polish market later this year. One of the biggest Chinese producer of commercial vehicles is building sales network. Although we don’t know the official Foton’s offer, we can suppose that only new cars with European homologation and Euro 5 norm can appear on the Polish streets. Foton has only one model which meets our expectations. It is a newest pickup named Foton Tunland (code P201).

Polish-based Automotive Europe Corporation has begun marketing Chinese-built BYD Auto model range in Ukrainie. The new distributor makes nor secret of its ambition to become the No. 1 in the sales of Chinese-models on this market. Previously BYD was represented by a local company Atlant-M, but its operation became heavily limited during the recent crisis. Currently, there are some 1,000 BYD-badged cars on Ukrainian roads (mainly the F3) for which the Polish-based importer has also prepared an attractive servicing package.

Chinese commercial vehicles will be used by DPD parcel service company in Poland. Signing a contract for the supply of several vehicles for courier company is a turning point not only for the official distributor Auto-Porada, but also the whole history of Chinese cars on the Polish market. Until now, nobody in Poland ordered more vehicles from China. Importer based in Warsaw unveiled, that receiving another orders from others small companies.

Small commercial vehicle of DFSK are offered in most of Western European countries, including so challenging markets like German or Swedish. In this month, sales of the Chinese brand will start at the Great Britain and Ireland, where Vestatec Automotive Distribution company will be responsible for sales. Growing popularity is possible thanks to Euro 5 norm and low prices, which reduce big technological gap comparing with European competitors.

Currently only two Chinese brands ZX Auto and Dongfeng are offered in Poland. Their exclusive distributors and importers in Poland are Pol-Mot and Auto-Porada. Both companies regularly increase its sales network, which already counts 27 points. Below the official list of dealers. It will be systematically updated in the future.

Automotive Europe Corporation says is has been appointed as the official distributor of BYD brand models for Poland. Additionally, it will also act as the sole BYD distributor for Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Automotive Europe Corporation (AEC), headed by Dariusz Wysocki since May 1, is set to bring the electric BYD E6 model to Poland for extensive road tests. The purpose of this is to make sure that the E6 is fully up to Polish customers’ standards once the car goes on sale here.