1989 Yue Loong Feeling 102 1.8 SF
Place: Xizhi District, New Taipei
My Taiwanese friend picked me up from the airport last Friday and it took only one day before he brought me back to his marvelous Yue Loong Feeling! The Yue Loong Feeling was the first national Taiwanese car and produced by Yue Loong/Yulon Motor, the carmaker that already locally produced Nissan cars. The Feeling was based on the Nissan Stanza T11, but had a unique design. Quality was poor, as were sales.
It remained in production until 1992, when it was replaced by the Arex 601, a heavily reworked Feeling. In 1995 the Arex was discontinued as well, which meant the end of a local Taiwanese car brand until the launch of the Luxgen brand by the same Yulon Motor in 2009.
Yue Loong started exporting the Feeling to the Netherlands in 1992, but sales were poor due to the combination of an unknown brand and high prices (for the same money you could buy a Peugeot 405 or Opel Vectra to name a few). The styling was already dated by that time and the poor reviews surely didn't help either. Even heavy discounting didn't help, so after selling 130 cars Yue Loong stopped its Dutch operations.
1989 Yue Loong Feeling 102 1.8 SF
Place: Xizhi District, New Taipei
My Taiwanese friend picked me up from the airport last Friday and it took only one day before he brought me back to his marvelous Yue Loong Feeling! The Yue Loong Feeling was the first national Taiwanese car and produced by Yue Loong/Yulon Motor, the carmaker that already locally produced Nissan cars. The Feeling was based on the Nissan Stanza T11, but had a unique design. Quality was poor, as were sales.
It remained in production until 1992, when it was replaced by the Arex 601, a heavily reworked Feeling. In 1995 the Arex was discontinued as well, which meant the end of a local Taiwanese car brand until the launch of the Luxgen brand by the same Yulon Motor in 2009.
Yue Loong started exporting the Feeling to the Netherlands in 1992, but sales were poor due to the combination of an unknown brand and high prices (for the same money you could buy a Peugeot 405 or Opel Vectra to name a few). The styling was already dated by that time and the poor reviews surely didn't help either. Even heavy discounting didn't help, so after selling 130 cars Yue Loong stopped its Dutch operations.