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Joint venture Shanghai General Motors plans to export the SLS Seville to Middle East and possibly to other overseas regions, according to SinoCast China.
The report said this would be the first time a China venture shipped luxury cars to overseas markets and a complete export range – economy, medium-, high-grade and luxury sedans – was planned.
A source told SinoCast Shanghai GM would will possibly export the model to other regions apart from the Middle East.
The China-made Seville was shown at an international motor show held in Dubai last November and, at the end of 2007, Shanghai GM signed a contract to export the model to the Middle East, the report said.
The long-wheelbase SLS Seville was designed specially for China, Shanghai GM general manager Ding Lei said when the model was released in November 2006.
BMW also produces special long-wheelbase models for China where many luxury cars are chauffeur-driven.
SinoCast said Shanghai GM in 2001 began exports of the Buick GL10, a medium- and high-grade model, to the Philippines, and later sold the Chevrolet Lova, an economy model, in Ukraine.
Last year, the venture exported approximately 20,000 cars. In late 2007, it won a long-term engine supply contract from GM Daewoo Auto & Technology Company, and from 2009, it will export four-cylinder L850 engines to South Korea, the report added.
