Xinkai Motors, founded in 1984 made mainly pickup’s and suv’s in Gaobeidian City in Hebei Province. From 2010 on Xinkai sold Mercedes Benz Sprinter and Vito vans. In 2018 Xinkai was bought by the Jimai New Energy Vehicles Co.
Several times, Xinkai proposed cars, but never produced one. Here follows an overview.
We start with the Suzuki Alto copy. Xinkai did not belong to the Army factories which obtained the license to produce the Suzuki Alto (2nd generation). In 1994 Xinkai advertised her own Alto version. Probably without the right to produce it.
We have never seen a Xinkai Alto, not in traffic, not in shows, and no photos nowhere.
Then something else, already described by Tycho in 2018.
In the second halve of the 1990s, Toyota Camry, Honda Accord and Honda Civic imported illegally from Japan or Taiwan were rebadged into Xinkai products.
These cars got Xinkai logo and even the full company name, ‘Xinkai Automobile Group Corporation’, was put on the cars.
These cars had foolish designations: like HXK6330 and HXK6360 (which means small car, length 3.30m or 3.60m) or HXK6630 (which means small bus, length 6.30m).
In the Beijing Auto Show 2004-brochure of Xinkai, the factory was proudly presenting a car named Xinkai Tianjiao. There was a motto “All roads lead to Rome, all roads have Xinkai cars”.
Amazingly, this is a drawing of a Shanghai Volkswagen Santana 2000 with a an updated flamboyant front end. It is totally unclear if this car ever existed.
Here the same music: We have never seen a Xinkai Tianjiao, not in traffic, not in shows, and no photos nowhere.
Two years later, the same trick. This time a Xinkai Di’ao, brochure Beijing Auto Show 2006.
Well, as you can see, this is a look-a-like of the Shanghai Maple Haishang (Marindo). The characters Di’ao are the same as the ones of Audi (Aodi), but the other way around.
And again: We have never seen a Xinkai Di’ao, not in traffic, not in shows, and no photos nowhere.
My conclusion is, that there was never a Xinkai car, except for some imported Toyota and Honda cars, illegally rebadged as Xinkai.
p.s. Tycho came up with a “Xinkai Electric Vehicle”. Clearly a Tianjin Xiali N3 Sedan.
weirdly enough, the xinkai alto and the xinkai accord share a designation.
any idea why?
Yes Yanky Mate, for the Alto it is correct (3.60m long), for the Accord it is fake, probably not given by Xinkai but possible by a Guangdong company.
also why did xinkai make up all of these fake cars? is it to attract more money? or something else?
Hi Yanky Mate, you can understand more when you read Tycho’s articles:
https://chinacarhistory.com/2018/12/24/crazy-car-production-days-of-guangdong-hebei-xinkai-automobile/, and
https://chinacarhistory.com/2018/02/04/crazy-car-production-days-of-guangdong-introduction/
greetings, Erik
https://carnewschina.com/2012/02/04/introducing-the-xinkai-ruiteng-pickup-suv-from-china/
There’s this Xinkai Ruiteng that you forgot to mention
Yes Turbo Jay Smith, Tycho wrote 11 years ago about the Ruiteng pickup. He is preparing an article about the SUV’s and pickups of Xinkai. I wrote only about the passenger vehicles (not) made by Xinkai.
Thanks for both the clarification and the interesting content
not a “car”
also it’s too late for this site.
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i thought that cars made after 2009 wont be written about in the site.
I don’t know about such a rule, but Xinkai HXK6360 (the Alto) = 1993/94; Xinkai Tianjiao (the Santana) = 2004 and Xinkai Di’ao (the Marindo) = 2006. So what is the problem?