MPV’s made in Shanghai long ago.

Long before the popularity of mpv’s, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation made prototypes of mpv’s.

The Shanghai Santana SVW7181, later SH7181. The Institute gave me this brochure, they had crossed out the SVW denomination by hand.

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The Liming YQC6460NL, a Chinese wagon with a Japanese face

This is a 1998 Yi Zheng Li Ming YQC6460NL.

Li Ming was a name given to cars manufactured by the Yi Zheng Automobile Factory in Yi Zheng city in Jiangsu province. There were quite a few Li Ming products made in the latter half of the 20th century and we will cover more of those in a later post.

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