Aeolus (marque)

Aeolus, called Fengshen in Chinese, is an automobile marque of the Dongfeng group, launched in July 2009 under the Fengshen name and later given Aeolus as its English name while the Chinese name stayed the same. The name has an earlier history, since Yunbao Automobile, a joint venture backed by the Taiwanese Yulon Motor, used Fengshen for the Yunbao Fengshen 7200, a rebadged Nissan Bluebird U13 sold from 1998, and the brand grew out of the later Dongfeng-Nissan venture. Its first own model was the Fengshen S30 compact sedan, unveiled at Auto Shanghai in April 2009 and on sale that July, followed by the H30 hatchback in 2011, the H30 Cross and the A60 sedan, while the L60 of 2015 was built on a Peugeot Citroen platform with Dongfeng Peugeot-Citroen. In August 2023 Dongfeng folded Aeolus, Nammi and eπ into one Dongfeng brand and kept the three as sub-brands, and the current range includes the Yixuan sedan and the Haoji and Haohan SUVs.