GEELY - The Biggest Car Company You've Never Heard Of | Up To Speed
Geely is the biggest car company, that you’ve never heard of. Their Chinese badge may be only 30 years old, but in that time, they’ve managed to sell millions of cars, like the Geely Haoqing, and the Geely Borui, win an FIA manufacturer’s cup, and set a lap record at the Nurburgring in the Lynk & Co.'s Lynk 03. But how in the world did they go from making unreliable cars in the 90s to BUYING VOLVO? And what made the founder so mad that he drove a steamroller over an entire lot of cars? Join James Pumphrey as he gets you up to speed, on the largest Chinese car brand you've never heard of.
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00:00 Introduction
05:36 A Crushing Defeat
09:08 Sweden The Deal
10:37 A Lynk To The Future
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“Have truer words ever been smoken?” -James ‘Whatever his middle name is’ Pumphrey
Proton wen?
zhejiang is not a village but a whole REGION lol
I learned stick in Suzuki Alto
geely does not own volvo......the chinese government does trough geely......in china there is no free market in reality,you need the backing of the government to do bussines.....dont be fooled by this b###s##t
damn this comment section full people who said china steal data and protect the west for their same data stealing program
I have to agree the chinese 'mo powa baby' may have been better.
"Their future is fast" - geely sold so many cars during quarantine period here in our country. And car experts review are top notch. From built to tech and safety feature at cheaper price. 😆
It's my dream to build car company
They should make geely suits. lol.
WOAAHH
I love your coverage of the history of Geely. I heard about Geely in the mid1990s. I own over 10,000 shares of Geely. I bought the stock in the 1990s for $0.075 and later for $0.11 per share. The following is what wrote in another video of yours before I saw this video : Geely started out making refrigerators.This Chinese car manufacturer now ranks #716 in the 2020 Forbes top 2000 most valuable companies in the world. Geely now owns Volvo, Jaguar, about 10% of Daimler, about 50% of Proton(Malaysian car) and the British Black Cab company in London. Volvo is going hybrid and will be totally EV in the next several years. Volvo also now produces the Polestar which is an EV. Geely also owns the Terrafugia, a flying car developed by 6 MIT students from whom Geely bought the rights. Geely was never high tech but is an example of a company being successful in an area where they really had no expertise. I hope you do a video on NIO. I own stock in Nio.
Idk about Geely. Suddenly they helped us in making our country local cars
Correction, geely doesnt own volvo, they have a 8.2% share in the company.
Make video on tata car company
GET RIDE OF THE MIC IT MAKES IT SOUND BAD COMPERED TO THE OTHER VIDEOS
Please make a video on Tata motors please 🥺
If you saw TWR written on the front of the racing Volvos in this video, I have a side note. Tom Walkinshaw Racing built some exciting cars. I believe they wound up racing some Jaguars too. The may have even helped to develop the XJ220. It was a fast and sexy....supercar.
Ah, that's why Volvo randomly got bought out by China. Makes a lot more sense now.
They are everywhere here in iraq
Ghosting someone in person is absolutely amazing.
So they sold loads of low tech simple and cheap cars in China. Earned tons of money, bought volvo, used Volvo's tech to make a race car and made a record. That's inspirational.
You have a Chinese fan listening right here XD
Respect
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jokes on you ive heard af geely last night
The car in the thumbnail looks so sick & new age
My dad had a geely but we called it"jeely"
In India Geely means wet
Could you pls make a vid on India’s Tata, they are a national pride of India, they r the guys behind current resurgence of Jaguar and Lnad Rover
That why Chinese car manufacturer Geely is the biggest car brand in the Philippines.
First time I know 'em when "Mk. II" hatchback appeared almost 10 yrs ago...it looks so good I googled it....and that's when I found out they bought Volvo like Lenovo bought IBM...
The 03 looks like they mated a charger and Nissan rouge
I've head of geely never seen one though
love you to James
Geely just brought first car company, Proton
Not only geely, Chinese brands cars are all making staggering progress.This whole market's going to be affected by them during the car industry's revolutionary.
I miss this series man
12:27 is James Dave Chapelle
No one hear it cause its made of China 🤬
how much for the + i want one in that golden dew yellowish color
Can guys loose the mic, sound sucks with it... thanks
Have you drove one of those cars? 🙄🙄🙄 They are fragile
You fool, i already knew about geely
I don't think I saw a single comment about this but Zhejiang is not a village. It's a whole province like a state in the US 😂
came here bcause ML Studio.
Clickbait. I've heard of them, just barely, but heard of them
Its annoying how in car commercials how they never tell you the country of origin ,of the vehicle.
Do dodge pickups, they are sweet, and you'll get do do the hemi skit
03 was named after the year I was born
You can say whatever you want about Geely being a huge big corporation that eats up every automobile company, but this is a success story. Li's success story
Could y’all do an episode on the Chevy Colorado
8:40 Selling 140,000 cars a year and then bought Volvo for 1.5 billion dollars. Man I'm not very good at maths but this makes no friggin sense whatsoever.
The money made from selling personal data when you play Raid Shadow Legends has to go somewhere
Have truer words ever been smoking?
chinese car manufacture history's full of shit. there's more stories about copyright infringement, and i'd like to hear you cover them! just get the geographic details right
uh, zhejiang is not a village, it's a province, the level of a state
Zhejiang is one of the most richest provinces in China
Yo I want an 03+
Ohey, another chinese car company that's copied other cars without their permission cuz its china and apparently they can get away with that shit.
I've heard of geely
The geelys in my country are shitty
Thanks for the U2 thing. I´m with you on that.
Bro thank you for giving us a fair, unbiased and entertaining presentation of a Chinese car company.
Hahahaheard of geely had one lynk & Co very fun
Does anyone know how to spell the car he said that they put the first car on its platform? It was like Hong key or something
so the Chinese government is in building cars ? oh wait this is just one of the many car companies they own
It is interesting to see today's Volvo than Ford's version...
I bet CCP has put a ton of money into this moron who thought cars are about couches on wheels and not engines, and failed miserably so many times. Otherwise he would never succeed. Then again, he came from "private" business in China in 80-th - I mean can you believe private business was allowed in China in 80-th? Of course not. You had to have ties to CCP, or probably be a part of CCP yourself - in order to run that refrigerator business. Explains also "donation to local authorities" - just a change of appointed head from unofficially CCP to officially CCP.
Goodness, these are shit cars.
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Biggest BIGGEST!? Hahahahhaha no man VW AG GM Tesla and Toyota are bigger but I’m glad they saved Volvo
Geely means *wet* in hindi
First of all, Zhejiang is a province instead of a village. And secondly, rumor says Lee and the president of China are brother in laws. You got the meaning.
Geely is quite popular here in Saudi Arabia
溜溜哥
He does a disclaimer!! So I won't say anything about the pronunciation
They also own Proton and In doing that by default owns Lotus as well
ALL CHINA PRODUCTS ARE ALL WASTE! these vloggers are not mentioning its durability and quality which is absent at all china products, SO WHY TO GAMBLE YOUR MONEY OF BUYING THOSE CHINAMADE PRODUCTS? ONLY CCPVIRUS,COVID ARE KNOWN AND ITS DURABLE, QUALITY AND DEADLY DISEASE TO ALL PEOPLES OF THE WORLD!!!!!!!!
Most of the south American taxis are either Geely or hyundai/kia I have no idea if they are reliable, but they are everywhere in the airport
Meirinbao= Auspicious Beauty Leopard .....ughhhhh...maybe focus first on creating R&D dept. solely for naming cars.
Please calibrate your timeline, that is post nolan
The small village (or province?) of Zhejiang with a population of 58 million people. xD
Nahhh ain gonna buy china car...i ain't want it even they give it free to me
Damn this was really well done. Subscribed dude!
6:10 - "lots of hard plastic .. paint was bad .. door gaps terrible" Obviously no-one told Elon Musk that car manufacturers shouldn't do this.
I laughed when he donated his refrig company...probably more like the c-govment took it...
Why the fcuk would you want a Chinese branded car? Huawei and ZTE is banned for a good reason - their gears are full of spyware. The car Navi and Infotainment system just tracks and transmits all your metadata and conversations back to China’s CCP HQ
you know what is full of spyware, iphone, google , android, facebook, etc BIG BROTHER is WATCHING YOU 🧐
Great job!
moral of the story dont sell your technology to cina as they use it back to hit you back...
Hehe, to be successful is not that easy. Especially many barriers at that age. Li shufu and our President Xi are brothers in law. Their wives are sisters.
I've known of Geely since 2006 when I spent 3 months in China!!
you are bullshitting from the beginning to the end the first geely 4-wheel car is a Diahatsu Cherade under the toyota licence.
In our country we have a lot of geelys and i swear to god its jeely not geely
ford selled VOLVO to Geely, for just 1.8 bil Dollar not the otherway
I had a geely moped
Well in my opinion geely is really bad in my country it has short life and it breaks down easily i remember i had one it was one of the sedans i cant remember the type its really slow and uncomfortable and its super weak plastic
Update: Chinese cars are really bad and really unreliable
its amazing what desperation can make you do
i want to see that one car called. Wei lan ES8 ? or what ever the electric SUV
We get Chinese cars in South Africa, and they are crap. There was a minibus taxi initiative about 10-12y ago to supply new but affordable taxis here, Chinese companies got in and they all just fell apart over a couple of years! Whenever you see a Chinese minibus taxi here, they all have sellotape keeping the parts together! Here they sell Geely (cheap, nasty, horrible), Chana (ditto), Chery (who knock off Chevrolet and Toyota badly), Foton, Jinbei... the only Chinese car with any respect here is GWM/Haval and now they're not even affordable but still not very good compared to Japanese, Korean, European cars. The one time I looked at buying a GWM H5 as it's a cheap but decent looking SUV... the dream was over when I opened the door and sat inside. Nasty!
It's a soft G, and pronounced "Jeely"