The Changchun Automobile Research Institute developed a 0.8 ton 4×4 military truck from 1966-1970.
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A military 4×4 truck, bigger than the BJ212.
Author: Erik Van Ingen Schenau
Tianqi Meiya T3, another car we never met in traffic.
At the Guangzhou Fair, outside, there was always a small auto exhibition. Here you could see some small makes, which were not exposing at the Beijing or Shanghai Auto Show. Tianqi Meiya was one of them.
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The pickup, box car and station wagon based on the Fukang (Citroën ZX).
In 1992 Citroën ZX-assembly in China started. A joint-venture, named DCAC (Dongfeng Citroën Automobile Company) was established, the venture was owned for 70% by Dongfeng.
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The cars made by Xinkai.
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.
Tongtian New Glow, the winter child.
A bit surprised, not knowing this vehicle, my dear friend Chang Bing took some photos, in front of the building of the FAW Automobile Research Institute in Changchun. The car had no front logo, but after sweeping a bit the snow away the factory name and the vehicle code became visible at the rear site.
The disguised Hongqi CA770JH ambulances.
A Hongqi CA770 limousine, refit into an ambulance or at least disguised as an ambulance. There are several versions.
The Shanghai Auto Show 1921
When reading a Wikipedia page about the Shanghai Auto Shows, I was surprised to read that Wiki tells us that the first Shanghai Show was held in 1985. That is not true.
The first Show in Shanghai was held 64 years before, in November-December 1921.
There seems to have been some minor exhibitions in Shanghai, in 1906 and 1927. But the main big show was in 1921, I missed that one when I wrote about earlier Chinese auto shows.
With help of the magazine Oriental Motor, published in those years, I give you a review of the 1921 show.
Two three-wheelers made in Chongqing.
Two three-wheelers, made in 1958, both by the Chongqing Municipality Public Transport Company.
Three mystery Volkswagens.
This is about three mystery-Volkswagen’s. The FAW-Volkswagen Olympia Taxi, a FAW-Volkswagen Vento (Jetta A3) and a Shanghai-Volkswagen Santana (Passat B2).
Prototypes made in Changchun.
Recently I bought from a Changchun bookseller a bunch of 47 photos of prototypes made in the 1990’s by the First Auto Works Automobile Research Institute (FARI). The majority of the photos show trucks.
The Changchun Automobile Reseach Institute was established in 1950. Originally it worked mostly for FAW (First Auto Works in Changchun), but also designed for other companies, factories in Beijing, Tianjin or Guangzhou etc.
Since 1978 CARI worked only for FAW and in 1980 it became the FAW Automobile Research Institute (FARI).