Same as the Volkswagen logo, the VW in the logo is the first letter of the full name. The logo is composed of three "V"s made with the middle and index fingers, which means that Volkswagen and its products must win - win - win.

The SANTANA brand sedan is a brand car produced by the German Volkswagen Company in California, USA. Starting in 1985, after more than 20 years of production history, the ordinary Santana sedan (Santana 87) has been sold all over the country. .

In October 2012, Shanghai Volkswagen announced that it would stop production of the old version of Santana (Santana 87) and published a "Goodbye, Santana" advertisement, announcing to the world that the old version of Santana (Santana 87) would become a classic of the past. The new version of Santana will drive from Wolfsburg, Germany to Beijing with a brand-new attitude, starting a new journey.

On the evening of December 16, 2012, Shanghai Volkswagen held a launch conference for the new Santana at the Beijing National Stadium. In 2018, Volkswagen delivered more than 4.21 million cars in China.

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China Santana

The joint venture project negotiations between Shanghai Automobile Factory and German Volkswagen lasted for 6 years, starting from November 1978 to November 1984 Monthly contract. In 1982, China purchased 100 sets of Santana parts from Germany for trial assembly at the Shanghai Automobile Factory. In November 1984, Shanghai Automobile Factory successfully negotiated a joint venture project with Germany's Volkswagen. In March 1985, Shanghai Volkswagen was officially established and began to officially produce Santana sedans, using the "Volkswagen Santana" trademark.

In China, Santana achieved great success after being introduced by Shanghai Volkswagen, with cumulative sales of nearly 4 million units, becoming the most representative model in the history of Chinese automobiles. The Santana sedan has been assembled on an experimental basis since 1983. During this period, it has gone through four generations of "regular Santana", "Santana 2000", "Santana 3000" and "Santana Zhijun". The best-selling basic Santana was launched in August 2012. Production ceased on the 15th after 29 years.

The production of the Santana sedan ended China's closed-door, conservative and closed history, and became an important carrier of China's automobile reform and opening up, accelerating the modernization process of China's automobiles.

In mainland China in the 1990s, Santana, together with the Volkswagen Jetta and Shenlong Fukang (Citroen ZX), was known as the "Top Three" Chinese sedans due to its long sales time and large market retention.

Reference materials:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Volkswagen

Baidu Encyclopedia-Santana