Product Evolution

Old Models in History
Old models like Sanfeng, Yanpai, Dafa, and even the older 740 and China’s first jeep witnessed the brilliant history of Tianjin’s auto industry, improvement and development of these models not only helped the R&D Center accumulate experience and improve its capacity, but also created a set of precious databases on the basis of that.

Xiali Series:
From official introduction in 1986 to a total of over 1,000,000 consumers in 2004, Tianjin Xiali remained prosperous in the market for 20 years through its product characteristics in accordance with China’s basic conditions and reliable product quality. Particularly, the first quarter of 2005 saw Xiali’s best-ever market performance, Xiali’s boom in sales thus became a phenomenon and the motive force of the revival and continual development of the sub-divisional market of Chinese economical cars.

NBC Series:
NBC series introduced in Toyota’s advanced technologies. Judging NBC’s significance to Tianjin FAW shall not be confined to its market performance. Introduction and absorption of NBC technologies is of great value to the construction of capacity for independent R&D and the accumulation of data and experience by Tianjin FAW R&D Center.

A Series and N3:
The partially modified Shenya and Junya and the independently developed N3 were successively released into the market in 2003 and 2004 and received good response. This marked that Tianjin FAW R&D Center achieved elementary success in constructing the capacity for independent R&D in the pattern of “introduction, absorption, digestion and independence.”

FAW VITA and D1:
In 2005, FAW VITA and D1 showed up at Shanghai International Automobile Exhibition and was acknowledged by the industry, the press and numerous consumers. They are national popular cars with full intellectual property rights, as well as new-type cars developed by Tianjin FAW through the early introduction, digestion and absorption of technologies and 19 years of accumulation of technologies on the basis of the fully possessed NBC and Xiali technical platforms and the support of FAW’s strong R&D capacity.

Hatchback FAW VITA successfully entered the market on October 25, 2006 and edged out numerous joint-venture models to win the great title of “2006 CCTV Economical Car”; also, sedan FAW VITA came to the market successfully on April 16, 2007.