Geely KC Concept shows it has a Swede side too

geely kc concept

No, it’s not a Volvo, even though some of the lines may look a tad familiar. It’s the Geely KC Concept, a fastback-based sedan making its debut in Shanghai.

Penned by Peter Horbury and Ken Ma, the Chinese automaker’s VP of design and design director respectively, the 4.69 metre-long vehicle features an exterior design that borrows heavily from classical Chinese history points, so it goes.

Elements include headlights and grill that combine to form a unified graphic lending an impression of distinctive stone bridges featuring heavily in classical Chinese art to an interior that reflects traditional Chinese artwork through its dashboard and instrument panel, again in the style of a stone bridge.

The KC Concept’s interior also gets dressed up in jade and fine red wood bits, with warm-white ambient lighting playing contrast to the dark red traditional Chinese elements to help create better ambience in the cabin. Chinese way, anyone?

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Anthony Lim believes that nothing is better than a good smoke and a car with character, with good handling aspects being top of the prize heap. Having spent more than a decade and a half with an English tabloid daily never being able to grasp the meaning of brevity or being succinct, he wags his tail furiously at the idea of waffling - in greater detail - about cars and all their intrinsic peculiarities here.

 

Comments

  • KiaLover on Apr 23, 2013 at 4:18 pm

    Just put any worshipped continental or japs car logo, then reveal its a china made after its sold million…that time people will start to open their mind (may be some curse and law suit)

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  • hello on Apr 23, 2013 at 4:52 pm

    mother of god.

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  • policeman on Apr 23, 2013 at 5:25 pm

    Shut up and take my money!!!

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  • Looks quite good. The front reminds me some korean cars, but cant recall the exact model and brand. Rear is a copy of Audi A5?

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  • tyler on Apr 23, 2013 at 8:01 pm

    of course can do anything because it’s a concept, when it goes for production, there will be different story

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  • sonyman on Apr 24, 2013 at 8:47 am

    Any chance will we see this in Malaysia?

    but then of course it probably be under Federal auto.

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  • rally_fan on Apr 24, 2013 at 9:24 am

    very good effort by Geely. this is definitely a “production” concept. not your usual over the top concept car. This is definitely very close to the final production version.

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  • The trend become very Volvo-ish already…

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  • no copycat..good..keep it up

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