Explaining the Chinese Car Industry and Chinese Cars
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The Chang’an Ben Ben super mini is one of Chinas better looking super minis, the design is original, it costs very little, and its reasonably safe!
100% front impact:
40% offset front impact:
Side Impact:
Chang’an seem to have done their homework on auto safety, no doubt these tests will boost confidences at Chang’an Motors, hopefully propelling them onto the world stage.
We often get asked ‘What pick ups are on the market in China?’ and we can safely say ‘LOTS!’
There are many a Chinese pick up manufacturer, many of the picks up available in China are based on older Isuzu chassis designs, and usually pack Mitsubishi motors under the hood, some of them happen to be 2wd, others 4wd. In this article, we will look at a selection of the best lookers. If any of our readers think we should add in a pick up, then please leave us a comment!
Big Diesel God
The Big Diesel God is by far the China Car Time favorite! The looks are inspired by a Chevy pick up, but the technology is Japanese (either a Mitsubishi gasoline, or a Toyota diesel under the hood) with a Chinese price (around 70,000rmb) We wrote about the Big Diesel God in lots of details here. The diesel God also comes in a great range of colors, which is great for fashion divas and urban cowboys, like us. Honestly, if pick up trucks werent banned from the city center in working hours, we’d have one already.
Great Wall Wingle
Great Wall has several different pick up trucks, to be fair they are all ok vehicles, but their latest model the, Wingle, stands out from the otherwise bland pick up truck range with its cute styling that packs a punch! The Wingle is powered by a 2.8l self developed engine from Great Wall, Great Wall created the engine with help from Bosch. The 4wd models have the option to switch to 2wd and 4wd when required, a unique function in Chinese pick up trucks.
Foton SaPu
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Information on the SaPu is limited, but it is a good looking pick up truck. Foton tell us its around 60,000rmb and has a 2.3 and a 2.8 diesel engine, as well as a 2.2 petrol engine.
Zhongxing Grand Tiger
The Zhongxing Grand Tiger, along with the Big Diesel God, is one of our favorite Chinese pick up trucks. Its got everything, looks, power, and a cheap price. We’ve posted previously about the Zhongxing Grand Tiger.
Are there any other cool pick up trucks we should add in to the list?
The big trucks that are being talked about in this article from the New York Times scare the living bejesus out of China Car Times. These trucks are often used to take rubble away from building sites and are always over loaded with rocks as big as your head precariously dangling on the brim of the trucks bed, just ready to fall off and leave a hole in your car roof once the driver accelerates or brakes. Yes, we are scared to death of them, and with good reason!
GUANGZHOU, China — Every night, columns of hulking blue and red freight trucks invade China’s major cities with a reverberating roar of engines and dark clouds of diesel exhaust so thick it dims headlights.
By daybreak in this sprawling metropolis in southeastern China, residents near thoroughfares who leave their windows open overnight find their faces stiff with a dark layer of diesel soot.
After Mary Leung opens her tiny open-air shop along a major road soon after dawn, she must wipe the soot off her countertops and tables; the tiny yellow-and-olive bird that has kept her company is harder to clean.
Trucks are the mules of this country’s spectacularly expanding economy — ubiquitous and essential, yet highly noxious.
Trucks here burn diesel fuel contaminated with more than 130 times the pollution-causing sulfur that the United States allows in most diesel. While car sales in China are now growing even faster than truck sales, trucks are by far the largest source of street-level pollution.
You can read the article in full here.
We’re not talking about Wuzheng trucks, we’re talking about Tiger Trucks!
Tiger Truck announced Tuesday that it will build the first U.S. assembly plant in Jasper, Texas, for vehicles based on designs by China’s third largest car manufacturer, ChangAn Automobile Group.
The Jasper facility, with a capacity of 7,500 vehicles annually, will employ 100 workers and the first “Made in U.S.” vehicles are expected to leave the production line in early 2008.
Tiger Truck, a privately-held company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is the exclusive importer, distributor and now U.S. manufacturer for ChangAn, which in China has manufacturing agreements with Suzuki, Ford and Mazda.
It seems Tiger Trucks are making the Chang’an Mian Bao Che that we talked about yesterday.
We finally got around to talking to Mr. Micheal Papp, the CEO of Wuzheng North America, the importers, and dealers of the Chinese designed and produced, Wuzheng trucks, which are made quite locally to China Car Times, believe it or not. Wuzheng trucks seem to be making quite a splash in the US trucking world, especially with their good quality and low price tags. Check out the article below, click read more if you’re coming to see more!
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Chinese vehicle manufacturer Dongfeng or “Eastwind” in English today announced that they are considering selling a stake in its commercial vehicle unit to Swedish truck maker AB Volvo.
The unit is part of Dongfeng’s joint venture with Japan’s Nissan Motor Co. The three parties were discussing whether Volvo would replace the Japanese company as Dongfeng’s partner in the medium and heavy-duty commercial vehicles arm, the Chinese automaker said in a statement, The Associated Press reported today.
Nissan would then focus on just the passenger car and light commercial vehicle unit, said Dongfeng, which is listed in Hong Kong.
Dongfeng said the companies have not entered any binding agreements that will require the approval by the relevant authorities of Beijing.
Dongfeng Motor, set up in June 2003, is owned equally by Nissan and Dongfeng. Under the joint venture, passenger cars are produced under the Nissan brand, while trucks under the Dongfeng name.
I wonder what Nissan top brass are thinking right now? Source: China Daily
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