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.
Hawtai again: the Jiefang CA6410.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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Questions, questions, questions (3) About Unknown Chinese Cars
Two times before, in 2018 and 2020, I showed you pictures of vehicles of which we wanted more information. Here are some new ‘questions’ about unknown Chinese cars. In 2018 I wrote: “But each answer leads to a new question. ” That is the fate of the researcher…
Great Wall ‘Xiali’
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Globe B.V., European import of the Beijing BJ212 in the late 1980s.
In my last article I promised you to write more about the Dutch Globe B.V. initiative.
It was a brave Dutchman, Peter de Koster, who bought about 6 BJ212s when making a sales trip to Beijing in 1987. He started a company named Globe B.V., established in Loon op Zand in the south of the Netherlands, where he was a local Chrysler, Jeep and Mercedes dealer. Later De Koster imported more BJ212s.
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Export of the Beijing BJ212 in the 1970s and 1980s.
The first 4×4’s used in the People’s Republic China were of Russian origin. After the GAZ 67 followed the GAZ 69.
When it was time for a replacement, the Soviet Union and China worked together to design a successor; the Soviet Union got the UAZ 469, China the Beijing BJ212.
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So many sedans made by the Jiaozhuo Bus Works.
After my article about the Whale JZK1010S last week, we received a lot of comments. (Super! Continue sending!) Some were about the different versions of the Changjian sedan made in Meng county, Henan province.
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A case of double identity: the Whale JZK1010S.
During my studies of all the small cars of the 1990’s, those made outside the regular car producing industry, I encountered this car on the web: the Whale JZK1010S.
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The Geely GE was a Chinese Rolls Royce with a single rear seat.
One of the most desirable cars is the Rolls-Royce. It is not strange that over the years many copies, look-a-likes, or Rolls-Royce-inspired cars, appeared in China.
At the Shanghai Show of 2009, Geely introduced a whole range of concept cars, small and big. They were designed by Nova Design of Taiwan.
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