North Korean Police Rolling in BYD F6 Cop Cars

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North Korean car producers are few and far between, Reverend Moon of the Moonies did try to set up a car company in North Korea which assembled rebranded Chinese cars such as Brilliance’ and a few pick up trucks under a DPRK only Pyeonghwa Motors brand but it is unclear at what stage this car company is at. North Korea also cloned an older Mercedes 190E which they based on Yugo technology to slow down the expensive imports of German made cars. Previously The DPRK got its motoring fix from second hand Japanese cars, but Japan stopped the exportation of cars to North Korea after they tested their first nuclear bomb, Japan’s goal was to put pressure on the North Korean governmental system, instead the North Koreans turned to their friends over the border in China and asked for some cars, nicely.

BYD has been actively exporting cars to North Korea for a number of years now, North Korean’s likely approve of the Mitsubishi engines that larger Chinese cars such as the BYD F6 use as local mechanics are probably very familiar with them. Pyongyang police seemed to have developed a love for BYD vehicles, hence their use of the F6 at the funeral of former Chairman Kim Jung Il earlier this week where America hating Kim was taken on his final journey on the back of Lincoln hearse.