The Fulwin is essentially a
badge engineered first generation
Toledo, built by
SEAT from 1991 to 1999, based on the
A2 platform. This is the same platform used by
FAW-VW Automobile for their successful, license-built
FAW-VW Jetta. Windcloud production indeed depended on secret side deals with the same parts suppliers as did FAW-VW. A later financial settlement out of court meant
Volkswagen Group agreed to abstain from a planned lawsuit. The purchase of the Toledo blueprints was also executed in secret, in spite of SEAT being a Volkswagen Group subsidiary: all of these deft negotiations were the work of engineer Yin Tongyao, who had originally worked for Volkswagen Group's Chinese joint venture. and Chinese production ended in 2006. An long wheelbase version codenamed
SQR7160EL was released in 2003, and the
Chery A15, first presented in 2003, is a facelifted Windcloud. ==References==