www.chinabuses.org: China's largest vehicle manufacturer, Shanghai Automotive Industry Company (SAIC), will arrive in Australia later this year with SAIC's Maxus V80 vans, which will go on sale in the final quarter of 2012, with the initial line-up set to comprise four passenger models and three cargo variants.

The four people movers include two 11-seaters – a short wheelbase version (4950mm total vehicle length) and a luxury-spec long-wheelbase (5700mm) – and two 15-seaters – standard roof (2345mm tall) and high roof (2552mm) versions, both on the long-wheelbase.

The vans include standard- and long-wheelbase models with the standard roof height, and a long-wheelbase/high roof model with a payload of 1.8 tonnes.SAIC vehicles will be distributed in Australia by the Sydney-based WMC Group, following the first local appearance of the Maxus range last week at the Melbourne Truck, Trailer and Equipment show.

WMC Group managing director Jason Pecotic said the Maxus V80 would be a "real challenger in the upper end" of the market, with its sights set on the segments’ Korean, Japanese and European competitors.

"The Maxus range will go head to head with some established brands, but will offer more creature comforts as standard and a strong European feel,"  Pecotic said.

"Maxus will offer us enormous opportunities in Australia, broadening the appeal of our range particularly in speaking to fleets, whether on the cargo and work van side or as a passenger-carrying mini bus."

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