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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Chinese Car Brands That Time Forgot: Shanghai Maple

Our history begins in late 1999, where Li Shutong, younger brother of the renown Li Shufu who has founded Geely, decided to take a different path and ends up founding his own company JM Star (Shanghai Jieshida Group – 上海杰士达集团). An issue arised, that many of our long-time readers might expected – nation-wide licence to produce cars. Without it, you run into the issue of not being to sell cars outside of the home province, which is obviously very limiting.

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Chinese Car Brands That Time Forgot: The mysterious Jianhua

Not long ago, we have looked at Tianlong wedding cars. Today we have another wedding car company to look at – Jianhua

Jianhua car brand is much more mysterious compared to Tianlong, their website http://jh-car.tochgo.com/ never being saved on wayback machine and thus being lost to time. However there is few facts we do know for sure – it was made by Hunan Jinyuan Auto Developing Ltd. Co., located in Wangcheng district in Changsha, Hunan province.

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Chinese Car Brands That Time Forgot: Yuandong (Far East Auto)

Today we will take a brief look at the small car brand from Nanjing called Yuandong, which dissapeared almost as quickly as it appeared.

Yuandong (Far East Auto) logo
Nanjing Shenghe General Machinery Logo

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Yuandong was a brand of company called Far East Automotive Technology Development (Nanjing) Co., Ltd. and built by Nanjing Shenghe General Machinery Co., Ltd.

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Chinese Car Brands That Time Forgot: Tianlong

A while ago my colleague Tycho has written an article about Jinma and Soar, two manufacturers responsible for producing wedding cars. I have taken the liberty to continue in that and present to you another brand that was Jinma’s competitor in this segment – Tianlong.

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Classic chinese cars in videogames

There is a place where classic chinese cars can live forever – where that might be you ask? Videogames! Today we will look into some of the games that feature classic chinese vehicles.


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