Haima showed off their new M3 and M6 sedans at the Shanghai Auto Show, both of them are relatively important vehicles for the company who has so far survived off hand me down technology from old JV partner Mazda. Haima are gaining sales in China but largely with their new SUV.
The M3 is already on the market priced at circa 100,000RMB but the larger…
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Earlier this year Haima unveiled their plans to launch a new compact SUV by late 2015, codenamed Haima SC-01.
The SC-01…
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The Haima ZM3 has finally shown its face in full, the ZM3 was possibly based on the Yao concept that aired at the Beijing Auto Show earlier this year, but the ZM2 has also been shown on CCT before – so perhaps this is the ZM2 but now named the ZM3 or…
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Earlier this year at the Beijing Auto Show Haima showed off a concept named ‘Yao’, after months of seeing the ‘Yao’ road testing around China getting acclimatized to different weather conditions we can say the car is ready to hit the production lines. A pre-production model was recently spotted outside a hotel in…
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Haima are readying their latest car, the ZM2, for production. The compact sedan has been undergoing testing for the past few years and has already seen airings at the Shanghai Auto Show in concept form under the V30 name.
Power for the above ZM2 is to come from Haima’s own self developed 1.5L VVT engine which…
Read More →Out of all the FAW brands, only Haima seems to have products that I would actually buy with my own money. Hong Qi seems to have gone away with old Toyota models, I have no way of telling my dad I drive a Best-Urn and the Oley/Xia Li designs are just not my cup of tea.
Haima on the other hand have a fairly solid line up that consist of redesigned…
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The Beijing Auto Show is going to…
Haima have made the most out of their relationship with Mazda, the two initially had a joint venture project in Haima’s hometown island of Hainan however FAW came into town and snapped up Haima and took Mazda to the frigid hinterlands in Jilin. Haima didn’t get completely pushed out of the relationship, they still receive older platforms and technology…
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As a sub company of First Automobile Works Haima seems to have a high degree of design autonomy that separates it by a considerable distance from FAW’s other sub brands such as Besturn and Tianjin, which seem to suffer from awkward design after awkward design, although Haima is making do with older Mazda technology from FAW-Mazda, they are certainly…
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Haima’s last new mini car, The Little Prince, was a terrible looking thing that sold in miserable numbers and was actually billed as a ‘QQ Fighter’, but in actual fact it was a major flop. Haima have gone back to the drawing board and have come up with the below concept that we will see at the Shanghai Auto Show next week.
More info on the car is…
Read More →Ford are on the verge of signing a deal with joint venture partner Jiangling (English name JMC) to produce the Ford Maverick in China, which will be the first time that Ford have produced a Chinese built SUV in China.
The Haima M2 may look like a Mazda2 due to its previous tie up with Mazda, but it is in fact a lot larger. Now Haima are planning on launching a sports version which looks like it will give the car a little bit more of a boost in the sales department:
Engine power comes in the form of 1.3L and 1.5L engines, so…
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The Toyota Aygo has had some serious milage in China, although never under Toyota…
The Haima-Mazda relationship is beneficial to both parties, Mazda gets a suitable way to get rid of all of its ex-tech, and Haima get lots of new technology and help which they have poured into their own branded sedans. Haima have been doing particularly well recently, especially since the Mazda 323 became the Haima Family, then they launched the Haima3…
Read More →The Haima S3 SUV is essentially the old Mazda Tribute with a Haima front end, and a considerably lower price tag of 100,000rmb.
The Haima S3 will be entering into the small displacement self designed Chinese SUV arena, and will go up against the likes of the very popular GreatWall Hover H3, and the Chery Tiggo3….
Read More →The QQ3 is a best selling car in China, despite its age (it was launched in 2002) it has continued to sell well into 2009 with virtually no exterior updates. The QQ3 sold a combined 9832 cars in May, its nearest rival, the BYD F0 sold 7224 units in May, the QQ is clearly unstoppable.
Haima have realized that the best way to compete with the QQ is…
Read More →Chinese manufacturers are getting into their SUV sales to boost their market coverage, and take advantage of a growing segment. Whilst Geely are taking the home grown route, Haima are going down the road of buying in ex Mazda technology to make their own. The below…
Read More →Haima’s own SUV, aka the old Mazda Tribute, is expected to launch in 2010:
Engine wise, the 6 cylinder option has been dropped in favor of a rather timid 2.0L producing 150bhp, 195Nm, and 110kw. Whilst the Tribute is not expected to be a fast smoother, the S9 is expected to cost around 100,000rmb which means it will be stiff…
Read More →Now that the show is practically over, and I’m very far away from Shanghai, and more importantly Hainan Island where Haima are based, I feel that is high time I apologised.
The reasoning for my apology is quite simple, I pulled the door handle off your Haima M concept car. I say pulled, it sort of just came away in my hand when I foolishly attempted…
Read More →Just when you thought Geely and Smart China were the only ones playing at making ultra-minis, along comes another player in the form of Haima, but with a new logo on show:
With lots of 妹妹 ready to å‘ç–¯ for the å¯çˆ±çš„车,…
Read More →Haima have been upping their game at the safety levels, especially as many Chinese consumers percieve Chinese cars to be unsafe, so obviously safety becomes paramount when you’re trying to build many and sell cheap.
C-NCAP gladly smashed up a few Haima 1.8L sports model and told us that it was a rather safe vehicle overall.
Points were awarded…
Read More →Haima are doing good things these days, but they are still happingly using their Mazda links to further their plans to become a large manufacturer in the next few years.
The Haima SUV is based on the Mazda Tribute, which in turn was based on the Ford Escape. The Haima SUV will come with a 2.0 VVT engine, gearboxes, or pricing…
Read More →Haima, the island car marker are planning a few suprises for the Shanghai Auto Show next week.
Haima has plans for a Haima 3 hatchback in 1.6 form, and also an AO class mini car (the M2), a new B class car, a new SUV, an updated Mazda Premacy (aka the Haima H2), a new mini sedan, and also a bread…
Read More →Haima and Mazda previously had a JV together, but FAW waded in and purchased Haima, thus making the JV into a FAW-Mazda JV. However, there still seems to be a connection between Mazda and Haima, as the two still seem to share platforms, and possibly designs. The Haima3 looks rather like the Mazda3 (in sedan form only, the hatchback is another story),…
Read More →Haima, Hainan Islands own developed brand, has improved its game in 2008 with the launch of a new Mazda 3 like sedan, and also a new bubble shaped hatchback. 2009 will see Haima focus on technology rather than bringing out new designs, Haima are reportedly working on a new 1.8 VVT engine, and also turbo engines. Haima are expected to launch a pure electric…
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From what we can gather, it seems that Haima are preparing to produce their first SUV, except from the pictures shown so far, it looks to be…
Haima recently had a demonstration day, it wasnt your usual demonstration day where you get to drive around a small course, it wasnt even an MG style demonstration day where you get to do handbrake turns around chicanes and slalom through cones. Haima instead showed the world that its Haima 3 (the sports model in particular) is capable of driving through…
Read More →The Haima 3 sedan is quite a popular sedan, it has the style of its previous joint venture partners vehicles, Mazda, and has the cheapness of a domestically made vehicle. The Haima 3 hatchback follows on with the design theme from Mazda, especially the Mazda 3 hatchback. The pictures below, taken from Autohome.com.cn, also show the styling cues that…
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The popular Haima 3 has been given a mild sports make over, with a view to stealing some of SouEasts younger buyers away…
Haima were once the joint venture partner of Mazda in China, FAW then bought the Hainan based automaker and took over the Mazda joint venture propelling it into one of the biggest automakers in China.
Haima has released a few pictures of their latest offering: A Bread Van, aka the mian bao che, as its known in China. These little 7 seater MPV’s are the vains of the Chiense economy, they carry people, goods, chickens, food, livestock etc etc on their way to their final destination. Chang’an recently sold their one millionth bread van, obviously…
Read More →Haima have been busy working on their Haima 3 compact car this year. The Haima 3 was released in mid 2007 with a 1.8 motor and a manual gear box costing around 110,000rmb, not bad for a car that looks pretty decent, possibly one of the best looking Chinese compacts on the market. Later on in 07, Haima launched an automatic version, and now, they are…
Read More →The QQ, or the QQ3 when it first came out was hailed as a car for the Chinese people. It was a taste of things to come, for two reasons, firstly the QQ was an exact clone of the Chevrolet Spark, 2) It was the cheapest car ever made at the time in China, basically a car that any office worker could afford to buy with some frugal living.
Chinas upcoming…
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Everyone seems to be making electric vehicles these days, it seems to be the certain in thing to do amongst Chinese car makers, Chery have a hybrid, Roewe are making something,…
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Haima motors based in Hainan island off the south coast of China is showing off its new metal today, the Haima H1 which looks a lot like BYD…
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