Cyan Racing Back With New Lynk & Co Brand

[Paul Jeffrey]

Cyan Racing, the crack team behind the recent Volvo WTCC championship success are set to return to racing with the new Lynk & Co brand.

Lynk & Co are a Chinese-Swedish automotive brand owned by Zhejiang Geely Holding Group. Founded in 2016 with the aim of producing ultra modern, digitally connected cars for the young professionals marketplace, the manufacturer has steadily been growing its portfolio of vehicles over the last 24 months, revealing the new 03 earlier this year with an expected sale planned for 2019.

Having begun the journey towards establishing themselves in the marketplace, the innovative and little known brand have now entered a partnership with long time Volvo sporting arm Cyan Racing, with the intention of developing the soon to be released Lynk & Co 03 for competition in an as yet undefined touring car series.

Speaking of the decision to use the Lynk & Co brand for Geely Motorsport and Cyan Racing in touring cars going forward, a spokesperson for the brand had the following to say:

“There is nowhere on earth where the traffic is as intense as on a racing circuit and for a new brand like Lynk & Co there are endless possibilities through a motorsport programme in terms of testing technology, components and philosophies to their extremes.”
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Further information on this intriguing new partnership has yet to be revealed, however it is expected that more detailed information should be made available as we head into the later months of the year.

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Interested to see how a new brand such as Lynk & Co can compete in touring car racing? Are you happy to see the return of Cyan Racing? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below!​

 

[Stanislav Minakov]

Very, very strange car. Some mix of Charger, Fiat, Nissan godpleaseno Juke, Alfa Romeo and something else

 

[Ben O'Bro]

Very, very strange car. Some mix of Charger, Fiat, Nissan godpleaseno Juke, Alfa Romeo and something else

 

[Brownninja97]

This car looks like one of those that you would find in those crappy £5 mobile drifting games.

 

[Stanislav Minakov]

In case of Chinese automotive industry this GIF is a tagline

 

[Sim Strata]

OK, I am officially an oddball. I really like the look of that!

 

[ChaosZeroJK]

This is the Chinese Volvo TCR car that Swedish Volvo said they would never build.

 

[Will Mazeo]

That front looks like have an identity crisis, should either keep the healights on top and remove the design bellow it or the contrary

 

[Sky]

'make it look like everything, except good' - confucius motors corporation auto division company group

 

[rms4455]

Very, very strange car. Some mix of Charger, Fiat, Nissan godpleaseno Juke, Alfa Romeo and something else

With some Jetta GLI in there too

 

[Sim Strata]

Very, very strange car. Some mix of Charger, Fiat, Nissan godpleaseno Juke, Alfa Romeo and something else

Did I mention I like the Juke too

 

[XRRoy]

Hahaha how beautiful is this! ... Wait, did I say "beautiful"? Oh God...

 

[beef]

I like it

 

[JackCY]

Rear is the only good looking part of it.

 

[Joshua_Benson]

If the very concept of an existential crisis would be brought to life as a car... It'd be this.

 

[antirussia81]

Kill it with fire... or just wait, it will probably catch fire all by itself, sooner or later.

 

[Bryan O'Connor]

Designer: Imagine..... a Porsche Panamera sat on top of a VW Scirroco which was then rammed up the shitter by an Alfa Giulia Quadrifoglio that was wearing some Halfords Peugeot knock-off tail lights.

Directors: Hmmmm... Go on.

Designer: I wasn't being serious, but if i must...

 

[Hailstorm BLX]

They could copy just one design at a time...

 

[wombat999]

Another typical Chinese disaster!
The one area that China stuffs up with monotonous regularity is the 'home grown' automotive designs.
Think 'Great Wall', 'Havall'(?) and 'Ssasyong'(?).

 

[cmtr]

For those saying it is a Chinese copy... all Lync & Co cars are completely designed in Sweden by the Volvo design team and built on Volvo base plates. They are probably pretty decent cars and have as much to do with China as normal Volvos.