Liuzhou Machinery Works

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Liuzhou Machinery Works
legal form
founding 1987
resolution 1995
Seat Liuzhou , People's Republic of China
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Liuzhou Machinery Works was an automobile manufacturer from the People's Republic of China .

Company history

The Liuzhou company began developing an automobile in 1987 with the help of the Changchun Automobile Research Institute . The type approval took place in 1988. Then in 1989 the series production started. The brand name was Disai . Production ended in 1995. A total of 2790 vehicles were built. Due to the lack of a national sales permit, sales remained limited to the Guangxi region .

vehicles

The first model was the LJ 720 , later called the LJ 5010 . This was a station wagon that resembled the Daihatsu Charade . The body was made of fiberglass . A four-door sedan with a notchback was at least announced. With a wheelbase of 234 cm, the vehicles were 380 cm long, 159 cm wide and 142 cm high. A two-cylinder engine for a license by Daihatsu with 644 cc engine capacity and 20.6 kW powered vehicles. The versions LJ 5010 XA and LJ 5010 XKH had a larger engine with 993 cm³ displacement and 34.6 kW power.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 438 (English).
  2. ^ A b c Erik van Ingen Schenau: Made in China, lost small cars of the 1990s. ( Memento of March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 2014. (English, accessed on March 12, 2016)