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Bestune 奔腾
Company typeDivision
IndustryAutomotive
Founded2006; 18 years ago (2006)
Headquarters
Changchun
,
China
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsAutomobiles
ParentFAW Car Company
Websitefaw-benteng.com/ (in Chinese)

Bestune (Chinese: 一汽奔腾; pinyin: Yīqì Bēnténg), previously known as Besturn, is an automotive marque owned by the Chinese automaker FAW Group.[1]

With products based on older Mazda sedans, Besturn targets upper middle-class Chinese consumers.[2] FAW, Besturn's owner, also manufactures the Chinese market version of the car many Besturn products are based on, the Mazda 6,[3] and Besturn models were initially produced in FAW's Mazda factories.[4]

History

The Besturn B70 made its debut in 2006.[5]

The Besturn B50 made its debut in 2009.[3][6]

Bestune began to sell its vehicles in the Russian market in 2012 with the B50 as the first model sold,[7][8] which debuted at the 2012 Moscow International Automobile Salon.[9] It had talks to have a joint venture with Avtotor to have the Besturn X80 manufactured in Russia in 2015.[10] The Besturn X80 started manufacture in Russia in April 2017 and FAW mentions that it would sell at least two to three more models by 2018.[11]

At the end of 2018, the manufacturer decided to rename Besturn's English name to Bestune.[12] The Chinese name Benteng remained unchanged.

Models

Sales

The 134,500 units sold in 2010 constituted a substantial increase over the 70,000 of the prior year.[13] Brand popularity for Besturn may have dipped between 2011 and 2012.[14]

References

  1. ^ Besturn B90 Sedan spotted out testing Archived 2010-10-30 at the Wayback Machine chinacartimes.com, October 27, 2010
  2. ^ Besturn Does China's FAW Car Co. A Good Turn forbes.com. 07.11.08, 5:29 AM ET
  3. ^ a b Besturn B90 to launch this year to be Mazda6 based Archived June 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine chinacartimes.com, March 24, 2011
  4. ^ Mazda and Besturn to stop sharing production line Archived March 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine By Helen Zhang. gasgoo.com, June 22, 2010
  5. ^ FAW Launches Besturn C301 Performance Luxury Sedan Archived September 28, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Xiao Li and Wei Xin. FAW Official Site, Sep 13, 2006
  6. ^ About Besturn Archived March 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine FAW Car Company Official Site
  7. ^ http://wardsauto.com/industry/chinese-auto-maker-faw-launches-car-sales-russia
  8. ^ "FAW-Besturn B50 is a Toyota in Russia - CarNewsChina.com". 22 February 2013.
  9. ^ "FAW will present a new sedan Besturn B50 in Moscow motor show". eng.autostat.ru.
  10. ^ "FAW to have 32 distributors in Russia - Xinhua - English.news.cn". news.xinhuanet.com.
  11. ^ "FAW has started manufacturing new models in Russia". 6 March 2017.
  12. ^ Bestune Sales Data & Trends for the Chinese Automotive Market (retrieved 12 July 2020)
  13. ^ "CHINA'S FIRST AUTOMOBILE WORKS POSTS 31.6% RISE IN 2010 SALES". Asia Pulse. Rhodes. Jan 19, 2011.
  14. ^ "VW investigates whether Chinese partner copied its patents". Want China Times. China Times News Group. 2012-07-31. Archived from the original on 28 July 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
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