Saleen
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Saleen Automotive, Inc., commonly known as Saleen (/səˈliːn/), is an American manufacturer of specialty high-performance sports cars and high-performance automotive parts. Saleen is headquartered in Corona, California, USA and privately held.
Company type | Privately held company |
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Industry | Automotive |
Founded | 1983, as Saleen Autosport |
Founder | Steve Saleen |
Headquarters | , United States |
Products | Cars |
Brands | Maxgrip, Powerflash, Racecraft, S4, Speedlab |
Owner | Steve Saleen |
Number of employees | 80 |
Website | www |
Saleen's flagship car was the Saleen S7, introduced in 2000. The S7 was wholly built by Saleen and features a mid-engine design in a high-performance sports-car package. It is also currently the only Saleen production car not based on an existing design or chassis.
Saleen currently[when?] manufactures the S302 (Mustang-based), the Ford F-150-based Saleen Sportruck, and Sportruck XR, a Saleen Tesla GTX and Saleen S1, a new Saleen sports car, and a limited-run successor to the S7 sports car, the S7 LM.[1]
In 2017, Saleen formed a partnership with the city of Rugao to form Jiangsu Saleen Automotive Technology.[2] to produce and distribute Saleen vehicles in China for the Chinese market.[3] The company's only mass-produced model, the Maimai, had a maximum speed of 100 km/h and a new European driving cycle range of 305 km, was introduced in 2019, but only 27 had sold as of April 2021.[4] In May 2020, the former legal manager at Saleen, Qiao Yudong, revealed that the chairman of the company, Wang Xiaolin, had made false claims about technology investment and embezzled a significant amount of state capital by inflating the costs of so-called "car-making technologies". Wang then absconded to the United States.[4] As a result, the local court closed down two local factories of Saleen Auto, froze the equity of four companies held by Wang, and shuttered Saleen Auto's Shanghai branch.[5]