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The Chinese threat continues: a new Zikr model has been revealed in Europe

2023-01-31T05:11:08.285Z


Geely's premium electric brand plans to storm the European market with the new Zeekr 003 on its way to doubling sales. At the same time, negotiations are taking place for the import of the brand to Israel, probably this year


Shortly after it was revealed under heavy camouflage in China, Zeekr chose to reveal the 003 model almost without camouflage precisely on European soil, as part of its mission to lead the penetration of the brand into Europe on the way to the goal of doubling the company's sales to 140,000 cars this year.

Zikar is the electric premium brand of the Chinese Geely, and to some extent it is also a step-brother to the Link & Co brand whose marketing began in Israel during the past month.

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The Zikr 003 will join the category of family and electric Jeeps, but although the manufacturer calls it a "compact SUV", he actually chose to distribute the first photos when he is photographed next to the Audi e-tron GT, the large electric sports car, mainly to illustrate to us how much the model It is expected to be spacious in the passenger compartment despite compact external dimensions.

Although with a length of 4.38 meters it is shorter than the Audi by 61 cm, but with a wheelbase of 275 cm (which usually indicates the space in the passenger compartment), the space for passengers is only 15 cm smaller, and at the same time longer for example 11 cm from the new Smart #01, which shares with the Zikr the same "SEA" platform of the parent company Geely.

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Zikr 003 is expected to be officially revealed in full details this coming April at the Shanghai Auto Show, and according to the manufacturer, marketing will begin in Europe in the first half of the year.

Although the Zikar brand is not yet marketed in Israel, it is known about several importers who are in talks to obtain the import franchise.

As of today, Geely's car brands are represented by several importers in Israel: Union Motors markets the "Geometry" division (the electric car sold in Israel last year), EV Motors markets the LEVC - the electric London taxi, the 'Meir' group markets the Link & Ko and Calmobile owns the Smart brand that was recently purchased by Geely.

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Source: israelhayom

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