Yup, we needed a double take as well. One hundred and forty nine Geely 4S dealerships were opened simultaneously in China in a day, marked by a ceremony at one of the new facilities in Houpu, Jiangxi. Geely says that the eye-catching move is part of an ongoing effort to upgrade its sales and service network across China in line with upgraded products.
At the ceremony, Geely also unveiled its “Geely Satisfaction” project that aims to “raise customer satisfaction beyond all expectations” throughout the ownership cycle.
Total investment for the 149 new outlets was over one billion RMB (over RM594 million), and it included 65 newly built dealerships and 84 upgraded ones. Among the new facilities, 39 joined Geely from other brands. All new dealerships must adhere to the brand’s new “3.0 era” standards for sales and service.
The company points to the JD Power China Dealer Attitude Survey, which saw Geely rise from 21st place in 2016 to 13th place last year, surpassing leading joint-venture brands in China.
According to Geely, which has a substantial stake in Proton, the implementation of its “Refined Cars Development Strategy” has seen sales grow from 766,000 units in 2016 to 1.247 million in 2017. In the first half of this year, Geely sold 766,000 vehicles, putting it fourth overall in sales and first amongst Chinese brands.
All this benefits the dealers, too. According to Geely, over 95% of its dealers were profitable last year. They sold an average of 1,314 vehicles per dealership, an increase of 31% year-on-year. Geely says that its products have attracted new dealers – in the past two years, 125 dealers joined Geely from American, European, Japanese and Korean JV brands. As of July 2018, Geely has 965 dealerships in China.
There’s plenty of fresh metal in Geely’s range. The Bo Rui GE flagship sedan was introduced earlier this year, and the Bin Rui C-segment sedan was revealed last week. Also reaching Chinese showrooms soon is the SX11 SUV, a smaller B-segment sister to the Boyue that we’ll be getting as a Proton later this year.
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Nothing special. It is consider the most economic car for lower class people, this volume is there.
Why waste resources here? Better go after the 4 million motorist without lesen. (these are official figures)
In a population of 10 million Motorist, this means 1 in every 2.5 motorist are illegal
These motorists are the No 1 cause of accidents in Malaysia. This is a more pressing problem. 20 years ago, there were only few thousand motorist with no lesen
In 20 years, the figure has balooned up to 4 million. Anyone wants to guess how? Yes, the answer is, everytime JPJ catches a motorist with no lesen, he is magically let go with no saman or arrest.
Over time, the figure has become 4 million!
sorry, wrongly posted. Was in my cut and paste memory from a previous older article
Goes to show u only cut and paste ur nonsense.
P1 to open 149 dealerships in Asean
Basher got kantoied by his own laziness. Lolz!
This is very normal in China because China people work hard. I just hope Proton workers are up to speed. For many years they have had a lepak and relax life and adjusting to Geely’s speed is a problem
From what I hear, the 10,000 Proton workers are having a hard time already with Li Chunrong’s ethics of hard work.
From someone who bullcraps about Ertiga being sold in Japan? Yeah, yeah we believe for sure. Haha!
For someone who still believes in tongkat, I am sure we believe in you too
Never mess with the tongkat. It may not look like anything special, but Mjolnir can only be wielded by the most worthy of Avengers. Certainly not you!
from what i hear you’re full of bull and fake sh!t.
This is a car website. We talk about cars. We don’t talk about other commentators here. Please respect this site and keep your personal attacks private.
We oso dun talk about tongkats. Please respect this site and keep discussions relevant.
rightwinger, you should get a job instead of spending whole day commenting sick stuff
i think you need to go for anger management issues
In Malaysia Geely closes 149 dealership in one day … Say no to China products. And Deng Xiao Peng should have never open up China … The world economy would be a better place
Geely, P1, Mesidis, VolvoCar, VolvoTrucks, Lotus > all
It’s easier to cure cancer than to fix Proton.
Its easier to fix P1 than getting P2 to gip safer cars.
Used to be low scoring maker in JD power? What a coincidence with proton! But if proton really make good cars to geely eyes, it surely want to rebadge suprima, persona, iruz and saga III. Come on man. Lotus ride and handling!!
Proton = geely
Geely > all
Nope, you are wrong… Geely will become world brand… their SUV will sell like hot cake here in M’sia… goto youtube look at the review… its NVH alone will make any japanese car embarrased…
A smaller B-segment sister to the Boyue will be called as Bin Yue
Makan besar lah geely
Proton has lot to catch up, not just store concept & design, branding, product mix, service quality.
It’s no surprise that we as a country are seriously lagging behind, almost as if we have stood still while the rest of the world has progressed & moved forward these two decades.
Yes please open your booking for the SX11. I’m waiting to buy one.
That’s why when Proton dealers protested to upgrade their antique 1S dealership to 3/4S, Geely may just have goyang kepala in disbelieve.