JAC working on super safe super mini
JAC have been aggressively pushing their small car line up for the past two years and are also planning to push forth their own self developed DSG gearbox. In addition to their soon to launch Yue Yue hatchback, JAC are proposing a super safe two seater city car that will carry an 800cc or a 1.0L engine which will be more than enough for it to take on the mean city streets of east coast China.
We might see the new mini car at the Guangzhou Auto Show this month. JAC Group have expanded well away from their light truck begginings and have swiftly moved into the car arena and then onto coaches and heavy vehicles. JAC have also set up a new energy company in a bid to bring down the cost of new energy vehicles and make them more affordable to the end consumer.
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This is the Anchi MC6320A, developed in 2009. JAC bought Anchi recently.
Hello Erik:
Little has been said by the media about Taizhou Zhongneng Auto (an affiliate of FAW) resurrecting Anchi in 2007 after a slumber of about 4 years. It seems that this minicar was a product of that Zhongneng interlude.
Could you confirm this, and possibly shed some light on this passing of hands? Thanks.
About the purchase ceremony: http://www.ahacauto.com/display.asp?id=426 It was on September 8 of this year.
As you know, Anhui province wants a strong automobile industry. It stimulated the fusion between JAC and Chery (which we are still waiting for), and in this light, the purchase of Anchi by JAC is logical.
Anchi was always an intriguing car company. It license built the MC6330 (Daewoo Tico) together with Songhuajiang (now Hafei) and it built minipickups, minivans and minibuses. In 2003 it surprised with the announcement that they would build the Renault Twingo (it was already on their website), before in 2001 that they would build the Daewoo Matiz (before Chery!) as Anchi MC6350, and in 2002 the Daihatsu Terios under the name Anchi Xiaowangzi (also on their website). Neither of these cars was produced.
You can find the little MC6320A on their international website:
http://www.anchiglobal.com/Micro-Car.asp.
Greetings! Erik
Looking good
Thank you Erik, but I guess my lingering question is, whose brainchild is the unique MC6320A minicar which seems quite well suited to various gas engine and electric drivetrains?
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Where did it originate? It’s unlikely it was with the Zhongneng makers of Isuzu knockoffs.
I don’t recognize the attractive body shape or the interior layout. Perhaps Anchi developed it on their own before, and then after, coming under Zhongneng ownership in 2007. Even though Anchi dropped out of sight when production stopped in 2003, it seems they were still hard at work, like Santa’s elves
@erik van ingen schenau “and in 2002 the Daihatsu Terios under the name Anchi Xiaowangzi”
It reminds me ever the name “Dongfeng Xiaowangzi”. haha~