12 Facts About Zotye Auto

Previously, Zotye had contracts to only export automotive parts but increased its production to complete cars to take advantage of the expanding Chinese automotive market.

In 2005, because of their reputation as a reliable partner, Zotye Auto established contracts for sales subsidiaries in 10 different countries.

Since 2005, Zotye has expanded its automobile lineup and production numbers.

The Zotye Nomad was a licensed production rebadged version of the Daihatsu Terios.

At the 2013 Shanghai Auto Show, Zotye introduced their new Z100 model, a five-door hatchback city car, with a design very much inspired from the seventh generation Suzuki Alto.

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In 2009, Zotye purchased Jiangnan Auto and acquired their only production model, a facelifted Suzuki Alto which was initially sold as the JN Auto.

In late 2010, Zotye Auto released a $2,830 Jiangnan Alto, the cheapest car in China and possibly in the world, and now calls the car Zotye Auto TT.

In 2008, Zotye Auto began exporting the Zotye Auto Nomad, the export name for the 2008 which was launched in China in 2006 as a rebadged Daihatsu Terios.

Together with LUIS Motors GmbH, Zotye Auto has developed an electric version of the Zotye Auto 5008 for the European market, where it is sold as the "Luis 4U".

In 2009, Zotye released its second car model for the Chinese market, Zotye M300, which is a licensed rebadged production of the Fiat Multipla, a compact MPV produced by Italian automaker Fiat from 1998 to 2010.

Zotye Auto launched the Z200 saloon and Z200HB hatchback in 2011, an updated version of the Fiat Palio and Siena which had been built in China by Nanjing Fiat from 2001 to 2006 with little success, and Zotye Auto purchased the tooling for these cars in 2008.

Cars branded under the Traum marque are manufactured by the former Jiangnan Auto, a subsidiary bought by Zotye that was famous for building China's cheapest car; the Jinan TT.