LDV Maxus

The LDV Maxus is a light commercial van model, originally produced by the British maker LDV Limited and launched at the end of 2004. It was jointly developed under the LD100 programme code by LDV and Daewoo Motor in a five year, 500 million pound programme, to replace the LDV Convoy and the Daewoo Motor Polska Lublin II. After General Motors acquired Daewoo, LDV secured the exclusive rights, bought the tooling and moved production from Lublin in Poland to its Washwood Heath site in Birmingham. It won Van of the Year in 2005 among other awards, was sold in two wheelbases and three roof heights at 2.8, 3.2 and 3.5 tonnes gross weight, and came as a multi-purpose van, a minibus with 10 to 17 seats or a chassis cab. LDV went into administration in June 2009. SAIC bought most of its assets, launched the Maxus marque in 2011 and relaunched the model as the Chinese-built Maxus V80 in June 2011 with a 2.5 litre diesel engine.