Hawtai again: the Jiefang CA6410.

One of strangest cars is the Jiefang CA6410, strange because it doesn’t fit in in the standard FAW Changchun and FAW Jilin program.
We thought it was a product of FAW Jilin,  Tycho has written about  it in 2012.

Jiefang CA6410, photo Erik van Ingen Schenau, 1996. Registration Jing C-A5793 (Beijing).

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Chinese Car Brands That Time Forgot: Tanghua

Hello again dear reader, today I decided to write about quite a peculiar car brand – it has been more forgotten in china, than in the west – Tanghua (唐华). Over the span of almost 15 years, they made series of very strange concept cars, the most famous of them would be the trio featured at 2008 Detroit car show.

Detroit 2008 lineup, picture made by Alden Jewell from Flickr

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The Renault Express from Taiwan made on the Mainland.

In 2001 the Beijing Municipality Pinggu County Wangxinzhuang Town Economic Union Corporation was looking for a foreign partner, to produce cars. The choice was the Taiwanese version of the French Renault Express.

Plan for a made in China Honglong Break 2001, Pinggu Company information.

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More about the Hawtai SDH7150M-D/ SDH7160M B5 Meijia (美佳).

Thanks to our reader 3Star4WD and my dear friend Tycho I can tell you more about the five-seater small mpv Hyundai Matrix (not) made by Hawtai (Huatai).

Hawtai B5 Meijia 1.5. Photo Internet. Three visible Matrix, a Volkswagen. Between the VW and the third Matrix is another Matrix, invisible. 

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