About the History of Cars in China
After their life times efforts to make cars for the leaders, mr. Hua Fulin and two other FAW senior researchers and engineers decided to develop a real “people’s car”. The project was named “Sankoule”(literally “Three Mouths”) the name revers to the then standard Chinese family with two parents and one child.
Imported Spanish cars were not for sale in China, the Seat was unknown . This won’t say that Chinese couldn’t buy Chinese -made Seats. Here an overview.
According the official website of Yema , www.yemaauto.cn, Yema was founded in 1988. That is not correct.
Chengdu Light Auto Refit Works made Yema suv’s already in the early 1980s. In 1988 this factory merged with three other factories to start the Chengdu Light Vehicle General Works. Tycho has written about this and more. Continue reading “The Complete Story of the Austin Maestro in China (part 2: Yema)”