English: Place: Hezhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

Chinese name: 众泰Z300 (zhòngtài Z300) Year of launch: 2011

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 Z300 is a copy of the Toyota Allion and was launched in 2011. A refreshed version was launched in 2014 and it received another facelift in 2017, when it was renamed Z360.