People's Liberation Army Works No. 5720

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People's Liberation Army Works No. 5720
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Seat Wuhu , People's Republic of China
Branch Automobile manufacturer

People's Liberation Army Works No. 5720 was a manufacturer of automobiles from the People's Republic of China .

Company history

The Wuhu company was originally a military factory. In 1995 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Weier . Production ended in 1997.

vehicles

The offer included four-door sedans with notchbacks and pick-ups with double cabins with the model names WHJ 1010 , WHJ 5010 and WHJ 6440 .

The WHJ 1010 was 431 cm long, 164 cm wide and 143 cm high with a wheelbase of 248 cm. The curb weight was given as 900 kg. The vehicle was powered by an engine with a displacement of 797 cm³ and an output of 26 kW. With the exception of 1 cm more length and 40 kg more weight, the same data has been handed down for the WHJ 1010 X. The WHJ 1010 D had a wheelbase of 256 cm, a length of 425 cm, a width of 164 cm and a height of 143 cm. He weighed 920 kg. It had a larger engine with 870 cm³ displacement and 28 kW power. The maximum speed of all three variants was given as 100 km / h.

In 1995, 262 vehicles from WHJ 1010 , 32 from WHJ 5010 and 908 from WHJ 6440 were built . For the following year 916 vehicles of the type WHJ 1010 have been delivered.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1729 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g 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 25, 2016)