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.
The Seat cars made in China.
Author: Erik Van Ingen Schenau
The Complete Story of the Austin Maestro in China (part 2: Yema)
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)”
The beautiful paintings of Jörg-Peter Rabe.
After my post “Our draftsmen” Jörg-Peter Rabe made on my request several car paintings. Each of them are beauties! I show them here.
Rabe started, as you remember, with the Xianjin 71-5 of 1958. Here is a second drawing of the car.
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The complete story of the Austin Maestro in China (Part 1, Etsong)
This story starts in the Great Britain, a car named Austin Maestro was made from 1983-1994. About 605.000 were made.
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The successor of the Beijing BJ212.
With the start of the joint venture with Jeep, a possibility showed up to use the modern 2.5-litre engine of the Cherokee in the BJ212.
Our draftsmen.
During our research we unearth a lot of old car photos of bad quality, or photos that give us only some details of the cars we introduce to you.
We get help from friends. They make drawings to enhanse the photos. Sometimes we ask them, sometimes they volunteer.
I want to thank them. To honour them, we give you an overview of these draftsmen.
The Dongfeng EQ6400PL Baolai Xideng station wagon.
This is the most ugly station wagon I know. Yes, as automotive historians it is not expected from us to give our private opinion about the design of a car. But the EQ6400PL, well have a look for yourself.
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Anhui Wei’er Small Cars
The People’s Liberation Army (Jiefangjun) no. 5720 Works in Wuhu City, Anhui Province switched to civil vehicle production in the 1990s, like so many military factories.
The Fenghuang, the Chinese Phoenix and other ornaments.
This is the Fenghuang, the Chinese Phoenix. He is different from the Western Phoenix, the bird that rises from its ashes. The Fenghuang is the chief of all birds. Originally the Feng part of Fenghuang was the male, the Huang the female, nowadays the bird is regarded as feminin. The Fenghuang is multi-colored; black, white, red, yellow and green.
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GAZ M20 Pobeda made in China and North Korea.
Reading the wonderful Russian website www.autoar.org I asked if they knew anything about Russian GAZ M20 Pobeda’s made in China or in North Korea.
As you know, I have written about the Chinese Pobeda here, and about the Korean Pobeda here.
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