







Originally a clone of the NADM GM-Isuzu Axiom, it was introduced in 2005, and quickly outproduced and outsold the car it blatantly and nearly perfectly copied. The car was facelifted several times, and thanks to the Axiom's ahead-of-its-time styling in the rear half, manage to fool people in the global market (who didn't know what the Isuzu Axiom was obviously) into thinking this was an in-style modern 3-row SUV. The car is much, much more common than the Axiom, with at least a million of these out there compared to less than 100,000(?) of the original. Great Wall created the more SUV-oriented (and slightly upmarket) Haval brand, facelifting the thing to look like a certain Mazda truck. After negative media reception in and outside of the Great Firewall of China, the car was facelifted again to its final form.
by officialsanic