BESTUNE
Type: Division
Industry: Automotive
Founded: 2006
Headquarters: Changchun, China
Area served: Worldwide
Parent: FAW Car Company
Bestune previously known as Besturn, is an automotive marque owned by the Chinese automaker FAW Group.
With products based on older Mazda sedans, Besturn targets upper middle-class Chinese consumers.
FAW, Besturn's owner, also manufactures the Chinese market version of the car many Besturn products are based on, the Mazda 6, and Besturn models were initially produced in FAW's Mazda factories.
The Besturn B70 made its debut in 2006.
The Besturn B50 made its debut in 2009.
Bestune began to sell its vehicles in the Russian market in 2012 with the B50 as the first model sold, which debuted at the 2012 Moscow International Automobile Salon. It had talks to have a joint venture with Avtotor to have the Besturn X80 manufactured in Russia in 2015. The Besturn X80 started manufacture in Russia in April 2017 and FAW mentions that it would sell at least two to three more models by 2018.
At the end of 2018, the manufacturer decided to rename Besturn's English name to Bestune. The Chinese name Benteng remained unchanged.
