Fifty brand new units of Geely’s flagship D-segment sedan, the GC9 will be added to China’s diplomatic fleet, serving as official cars for state guests, diplomats and other dignitaries during their visit to the land of the dragon.
This is on top of the 20 GC9s (also known as Geely Borui) delivered to China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs back in 2015 after a series of official car policy reforms issued by the Chinese government in 2012. The move was to actively promote homegrown car brands for state and official use.
The Geely GC9 is the first flagship sedan in Geely’s 3.0 generation product portfolio, and was designed by former Volvo’s head of design, Peter Horbury. It’s offered with three petrol engines, a 2.4 litre naturally-aspirated inline-four, 1.8 litre turbocharged direct injection four potter and a 3.5 litre NA V6, all of which are paired to a six-speed automatic transmission. The car’s platform was jointly developed with Volvo.
For the 2018 model, the GC9 gets a major facelift and Geely’s latest iNTEC driver technologies, as well as improvements to the handling and NVH department.
Uruguay’s ambassador to China, Fernando Lugris said, “we had previously chosen the Geely GC9 as our official car. The model’s Chinese design, large interior and intelligent driving technology left us with a very good impression. We will once again choose the GC9 as our official car and believe that it’s a good representation of China’s automotive manufacturing strength and style.”
At the handover ceremony, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group President and Geely Auto Group President and CEO said, “looking into the future, we will deliver even higher quality products and services that will meet the increasingly mature market demand.”
Closer to home, Geely’s priority is to strengthen its presence in Malaysia and ASEAN markets before venturing into exports. Its chairman, Li Shufu wants to bring Proton out of the reds and prioritise RHD research and development for future cars. We can already expect the Boyue SUV to hit Malaysian showrooms by end-2018, and you can read our initial review of the SUV here.
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Can we also get the GC9 in Malaysia? Better to buang all the Accordana. I don’t see why Proton has to pay so much of royalty to Honda for the rights to rebadge the Accord. Hundreds of Millions down the drain.
Also, don’t see why Government servants need a 2.4 Accord when a 2.0 is more than enough. Infact, Government Servants all should be given Persona and Saga as their official cars to save Rakyat’s money.
Anyway, assuming we want a D seg sedan, better we bring this GC9 into Malaysia.
Thank you China for saving Proton and saving Malaysia!
Amazing how Geely, just started in 1997, can be so successful. They paid cash for Volvo and they made USD$30 billion in profits in 2016. They are so cash rich. They had to fight with so many other local China car manufacturers.
Proton started in 1985, much older company, with full Government help and protectionism, and yet, it barely can make money.
china have 1.3 billion people while malaysia only have 31 million people. if 5% people of china buy geely, that would be around 65 million cars. more than half the population of malaysia.
Thank you, Tupac, for a smart answer. Many people think age is the pre-requisite to success and wisdom. Not always true.
But yes, Geely is a true-blue success, market size notwithstanding. PROTON was far too protected and thus tended to rest on their laurels. I remember their salesmen in the 90s when I entered car-buying age; they literally did not have to sell a car as buyers bought on price (and Japanese assurance).
Hopefully they have learnt their lessons and Geely will take them to greater heights.
How about Korea, 51.25 million population, where Hyundai group is one of the global player today.
hyundai’s success began 30 years ago as they aggresively marketed their cars in europe and america. and the result is there now – hyundai is indeed a popular and trusted brand in the USA.
malaysia have 32 million people. if proton sales is 64k units, how many % malaysia population buy proton.
And their car sells very well in China especially SUV
dont forget – China. and China only.
Spot on, Government Servants only allowed to buy Persona and Saga. No foreign brands. then Thank you Government Servants for saving Proton.
Front of Preve with nose job
Side of Accord Banana
Rear of Mazda 3
WTH?!
Front of Accord
Side of Passat
Rear of Jag
WTH?!
Hypocrisy at its best, when car got taxed tau pulak nak harga rendah, kalau harga rendah then gomen servants tabouleh pakai non-p1?
Apa ke tahian ini? Very topkek.
Sembang kacang. Reduce 30% as promised 1st, u then can start talkok.
The only sembang kencang is u. When reduced prices, u pulak hentam no RV. So mana mau ni?
Which world u came from that has bog
Reduce 1st. Tak paham england ke~
Belum reduce lagi dah sembang kencang tak boleh itu ini.
Make your own nick la, basher pemalas
Our first Perdana is much better than the new Proton Accord or even this GC9. I dun know why they discontinue. It was a top seller. Better than Merc oso
Our first Perdana was a Mitsubishi car. Fullstop!
Proton is the worst car company since slice bread. From first to third generations also using jepunis platform. Even Chinese Geely can build their own GC9
It is rebadged car. So?
Exactly. Enough wasting money to Honda, time to cut them off, and rebadge this car instead. Freshly facelifted too.
Built with Volvo’s engineering expertise, peace of mind safety and quality. Cheaper than Japanese outdated junk too.
(Like) Proton Borui.
(Dislike) VW Passat
Tahniah dan Syabas to Geely and also by extension Geely Malaysia. It seems you guys know what you are doing. Well done.
Geely GE is a better choice for Perdana. It looks grand and can make Rolls Royce out of business.
Hopefully the new Geely Malaysia CEO Li Chunrong will take the ex-national car company to new heights. Thank you Tongsan overlords!
I can see next generation of Proton Perdana there
Borui sound like no money
Perhaps that’s why they called it the GC9?
It is Mandarin not Fujian dialect.
If price below rm 100k , people will buy.
If the V6 engine is cheaper than camry,totally would buy.Nak jugak rasa enjin V6 on highway!
Alfadana V6.
enjin V6 torque rendah (sbb cranckshaft pendek mcm myvi) reaksi enjin malas bila kereta berat. sbb tu minyak kuat. kenapa camry 2.5 dan teana 2.5 guna 4 silinder aje. lebih bagus. crankshaft panjang, piston besar. low end kuat, ada power. myk save. kenapa BMW tak penah guna v6, tapi mesti straight 6.. sbb torque kuat. skrg dah lain sbb semua BMW twin power.
Camry and teana low end power? More like cow pulling cart
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Geely > all
Some govt cars on the road aren’t Proton. There are Nissan, Honda, Toyota, etc, with luxurious spec. Just drive around Putrajaya and you’ll see that. Seem like govt themselves don’t support proton.
And Proton wants rakyat to be patriotic and buy Proton??
You got it all bullseye right there. True/ genuine fact is a lovely thing. 1 bigshot is a hardcore Tesla supporter even.
P1 alredi private. So gov no more ties to sapot. Gov prefers pipu use public transport instead
Yup. Noticed lots of Toyota Fortuners as JPJ official cars. whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy…….
JPJ taknak P1 Arena ??
some departments need the capabilities to go off road. like JKR, JPJ, kementerian Kesihatan, jabatan orang asli.and the taxes paid by these ministries is like money from left pocket to right pocket – means govt pays only the basic car price. nothing more.
Make Honda, Proton, BMW and Mercedes Benz win-win, everyone happy except for Perodua
Guys pls read my second comment that I wrote the same comment in my first comment cause I accidentally post my first comment without checking the words
This car would have looked impressive in 2010, not 2017!
pls dont make this as Perdana..already outdated design.
Volvo S90 perhaps..or perhaps totally discontinue Perdana.
Malaysian are looking for foreign brand if were to buy >100k car
70k car, Malaysians are looking for foreign brand. Honda Toyota VW starting prices.
back to rebadge business!
Better than always rebadging like pooo….