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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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China Concept Cars: The Story Of The Hongqi C601 Sedan

Today in China Concept Cars: the Hongqi C601 sedan. In the early 2000s, Hongqi was looking for a new mid-size luxury sedan. To get there, they developed four concept cars under the C601 code name. These were:

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Chinese Hummers Part 1: The Dongfeng Warrior & The Shenfei Falcon

Today we take a deep dive into the Chinese Hummer program. Like so many other countries, China got interested in an HMMWV-like vehicle after the first Gulf War. We take a look at four Chinese Hummer programs.  China being China, each of these programs has a base model + dozens and dozens of derivative military and civilian variants.

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China Concept Cars: The 2006 Fulwin 2 Coupe

Today in China Concept Cars (CCC): the Chery Fulwin II Coupe, a sporty two-door concept car that debuted at the 2006 Beijing Auto Show. It was an important car for Chery as it marked the debut of a new design language and the debut of the new Fulwin 2 series.

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China Concept Cars: The Hongqi HQ3/Shengshi Extended Limousines & Inspection Car

Today in China China Concept Cars: three concepts based on the Hongqi HQ3  and Hongqi Shengshi sedan: a bulletproof extended limousine, an extended version, and an open-top inspection car.

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China Concept Cars: The 2009 & 2011 Brilliance EV Concept Cars

In the late 2000’s China started to get serious about electric cars. Many Chinese automakers launched concept cars and small-series EVs for demonstration projects. One of these car makers was Brilliance Automotive. In 2009 they unveiled an attractive electric concept car, followed by a follow-up concept in 2011.

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Chinese Car Brands That Time Forgot: Yanjing Auto

Today in Chinese Car Brands That Time Forgot (CCBTTF): Yanjing Auto, a brand owned by the Beijing Yanjing Auto Factory (北京燕京汽车厂). In the 1980’s and 1990’s the factory produced buses, minibuses, and SUVs under the Yanjing brand. Have a beer, get some chips, because this is a long read.

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China Concept Cars: The 2008 Geely GT And Its Successors

Today in China Concept Cars the 2008 Geely GT, the 2009 Geely GT. and the 2010 Geely Emgrand GT Tiger. These were a line of interesting concept cars with a traditional sports car shape. When the GT came out nobody expected production, but when the Emgrand Tiger GT debuted two years later we weren’t so sure anymore. It looked much closer to production and Geely, after all, had given up the Meirenbao coupe in 2003.

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