Tongbao

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Tongbao was a car brand from the People's Republic of China .

Company history

From 1996 to 1997, Yuanhu Special Vehicle No. 3 works from Anhui province . For 1997, Wuhu Special Vehicle Works from Wuhu is named. In May 2001 there were plans for a collaboration with Worldstar that did not result in any production. In 2003 there was a collaboration with Changan . In December 2004, Tongbao Automobile Co. Ltd. established and the Zongshen Industrial Group created the new company Zongshen Tongbao Automobile Manufacturing Co. Ltd. , in which Tongbao Automobile owned 20% of the shares and the Zongshen Industrial Group the rest. Another source calls it a merger . However, their brand name is Zongshen . In 2008 the marketing of Tongbao brand vehicles ended .

vehicles

The No. 3 was available from 1996 to 1997. In 1997 the WHW 6400 followed . The bodies of these small cars were made of fiberglass . Of these models, around 100 vehicles were made each year. Another source mentions an engine with 970 cm³ displacement and 32 kW power.

The company also manufactured some Hyundai Accent using the CKD process , which were also marketed as Tongbao.

From 2003, with the help of Changan, small commercial vehicles were produced .

literature

  • 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. 1596 (English).
  • Erik van Ingen Schenau: Catalog of the present Chinese motor production. Edition 2008, p. 312.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e 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. 1596 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Erik van Ingen Schenau: Catalog of the present Chinese motor production. Edition 2008, p. 312.
  3. ↑ Allcarindex (English, accessed on January 16, 2016)
  4. ↑ a b c d d'Auto (Dutch, accessed January 16, 2016)
  5. ^ 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)