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English: Place: Guangzhou, Guangdong Province

Chinese name: 众泰云100 (zhòngtài yún 100) Year of launch: 2012

Zotye is a Chinese independent carmaker that started producing cars in 2006. Zotye showed impressive growth in the past years, selling 328,875 cars on the local market in 2016, quadruple the amount of 2012. The cars itself are slightly less impressive so far. It started with the 2008 (Nomad), an unlicensed copy of the first generation Daihatsu Terios. Later Zotye bought production rights and toolings to produce the Fiat Palio/Siena/Perla, Multipla and Lancia Lybra. The former one entered production as Zotye Z200, the Multipla as Mutiplan (M300) and the Lybra was never finalized. Zotye has a questionable reputation for copying products of foreign carmakers, making copies of the Audi A6, Audi Q3, Audi Q5, Porsche Macan and Toyota Allion, while the Domy X7, which was launched in 2017, is the production version of the Volkswagen Crossblue Coupé Concept! The Domy X5, launched in 2015, is a clone of the Volkswagen Tiguan. Zotye is currently copying the Range Rover.

The Zotye Z100 was launched in 2012 and is a copy of the Suzuki Alto. It basically succeeded the Jiangnan Alto based on the late 1980s Alto, since it is produced by Jiangnan, a company which came under control of Zotye. An electric version is sold as Yun 100 (Cloud 100).