Shenzhen City Zhonghua Auto Industry

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Shenzhen City Zhonghua Auto Industry Corporation
legal form Corporation
founding 1985
resolution 1989
Seat Shenzhen , People's Republic of China
management Tang Jinsheng
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Shenzhen City Zhonghua Auto Industry Corporation was an automobile manufacturer from People's Republic of China . Other sources use the name Zhonghua Auto Industrial Corp. or Shenzhen China Motor Corporation .

Company history

The Shenzhen company started manufacturing automobiles in 1985. The brand name was Zhonghua in China and Plasticar for export to Bangladesh . The company received only one for the Shenzhen area instead of a state sales permit. By September 1986, the first 500 vehicles had been completed. Production ended in 1989. The director Tang Jinsheng then moved to General Motors .

Beijing Zhonghua Automobile Industry of Beijing used the same brand name from 1994 to 1999.

vehicles

The BS 111 model was based on designs by the Jing-Jin-Ji Corporation of Beijing, designed by Tang Jinshen. Originally, this was a two-door, four-seat pickup truck . The body was made of plastic . The standard model had front-wheel drive , the BS 111 B rear-wheel drive . The payload was 300 kg.

A tubular frame formed the basis of the vehicles. The GRP enabled several different bodies. In addition to the pick-ups, two- and four-door sedans with notchbacks and hatchbacks were also created . The engines initially came from Dong'an and Daihatsu and later from Xiali .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q 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)
  2. 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. 1786 (English).
  3. ^ D'Auto (Dutch, accessed March 25, 2016)
  4. Tycho de Feijter: History: the Zhonghua plastic cars from China on Car News China from February 9, 2012. (English, accessed March 25, 2016)