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GAC Group is a Chinese automaker that builds and sells cars, trucks, motorcycles, and auto parts, and also makes vehicles through joint ventures with foreign brands like Honda and Toyota.
GAC Group is one of China's big state-owned automakers, based in the southern city of Guangzhou. It builds and sells passenger cars, commercial vehicles like trucks and buses, motorcycles, and the parts that go into them, and it sells these at home in China and abroad. If you live in China, you've almost certainly ridden in or driven past a GAC vehicle — the company's own brands include Trumpchi cars and Aion electric vehicles.
The business has two very different halves. One half is GAC's own brands, where it designs and builds cars under its own name and keeps the profits. The other half is a set of joint ventures with foreign automakers — most importantly Honda and Toyota — where GAC builds and sells those brands' cars for the Chinese market. For years those joint ventures were the money machine, churning out reliable profits from selling Honda and Toyota cars to Chinese buyers. GAC's own-brand side was smaller and less profitable by comparison. That arrangement is now under real pressure. Chinese buyers have shifted fast toward electric vehicles, and homegrown EV makers like BYD have grabbed huge chunks of the market with cheaper, tech-heavy cars. The foreign-brand joint ventures, which built their reputation on gasoline engines, have seen sales and profits shrink. GAC has responded by pouring money into its own electric lineup, especially the Aion brand, and by building up exports to overseas markets where its cars can find buyers beyond China's brutal price war.
The company's future hinges on a simple question: can its own brands, especially the electric ones, earn enough to replace the fading profits from the Honda and Toyota joint ventures? It's a race lots of legacy automakers around the world are running, and GAC — with deep pockets from its state backing and years of joint-venture cash — is trying to make the turn before the old engine sputters out.
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