Roewe
Sign in to saveRoewe () is an automotive brand owned by the Chinese automaker SAIC Motor since 2006. Roewe vehicles were initially based on technology acquired from defunct British carmaker MG Rover. SAIC was unable to purchase the rights to the Rover brand name (which was retained by BMW, subsequently sold to Ford and ultimately returned to Jaguar Land Rover) and created the Roewe marque as a replacement. Roewe vehicles are sold in most export markets outside China under the MG marque.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Roewe
- Company.logo
- 125px|Roewe logo
- Company.type
- Division
- Company.location_city
- Shanghai
- Company.location_country
- China
- Company.area_served
- China
- Company.industry
- Automotive
- Company.products
- Automobiles
- Company.parent
- SAIC Motor
- Company.subsid
- Rising Auto
- Company.homepage
- www.roewe.com.cn
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Roewe () is an automotive brand owned by the Chinese automaker SAIC Motor since 2006. Roewe vehicles were initially based on technology acquired from defunct British carmaker MG Rover. SAIC was unable to purchase the rights to the Rover brand name (which was retained by BMW, subsequently sold to Ford and ultimately returned to Jaguar Land Rover) and created the Roewe marque as a replacement. Roewe vehicles are sold in most export markets outside China under the MG marque.
==Name== The name Roewe originates from SAIC's failure to acquire the Rover brand name from BMW 2005 (it was instead sold to Ford in 2006, and the brand is currently owned by Jaguar Land Rover). Composed of the Chinese characters Róng and wēi, which roughly mean "glorious power", the name is a transliteration of Rover, although SAIC has stated that it is derived from Löwe, the German word for lion.