Archive for the ‘Dongfeng’ Category
China Dongfeng Auto profit up 79% in 2010
Published on March 29, 2011 by Tycho de Feyter
China’s Dongfeng Automobile, the listed arm of Dongfeng Motor Company, said Saturday its net profit in 2010 surged 79.54 percent year on year on robust auto sales.
The Shanghai-listed company, based in Wuhan city in central China’s Hubei province, saw net profit reach 570.82 million yuan last year, compared to 317.94 million yuan in 2009, according to the company’s annual business report filed with the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Dongfeng Motor Februari sales up 29.8%
Published on March 7, 2011 by Tycho de Feyter
Chinese automaker Dongfeng Motor sold 19,540 vehicles in February, up 29.8 percent year-on-year, figures released on Saturday showed. Dongfeng’s auto output in February reached 18,250 units, an increase of 11.3 percent from a year earlier, the company said in a report to the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Spotted in China: Dongfeng Little Prince
Published on February 22, 2011 by Tycho de Feyter
A fine example of the Dongfeng Little Prince, I found it in the beach city of Weihai in Shandong Province. The Little Prince, Xiao Wangzi, 小王子, was made by Dongfeng’s Xinxing factory in Rongcheng, a city in the Weihai Prefecture. Full name of the brand was Dongfeng-Rongcheng Qiche, 东风荣成汽车, Dongfeng Rongchen Auto(mobile).
Dongfeng-Liuzhou working on Hybrid SUV
Published on September 30, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor Company is a subsidiary of the Dongfeng Motor Corporation. It produces the Joyear, Fengxing MPV’s, trucks and will soon debut an old-style suv. Car on pics is a new style hybrid suv that will debut somewhere next year.
Spy Shot: Dongfeng-Fensheng S30 Touring
Published on September 26, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
Dongfeng Auto keeps expaning the Fensheing-brand. Today they sell the S30 sedan, the H30 hatchback and soon the H30 Cross wil join the line. In the first half of next year a fourth car will be added; the Fengsheng S30 Touring. It will get the 1.6 and a more powerful 2.0. Price expected to start around 70.000 yuan and end around 100.000. Wagons are slowly becoming more populair in China, in the years behind nobody wanted them because the Chinese believed ‘m for farmers.
Dongfeng to Develop Pure Electric Vehicles
Published on August 16, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
Chinese car company Dongfeng plans to bring pure electric vehicles to the Chinese market within five years, the cars will be branded as ‘Dongfeng’. The company has reserved 300 million dollar for research and development of electric vehicles, Dongfeng expects the market for pure electric to be bigger than the market for hybrids by 2020.
A taste of the future: on pic the Dongfeng I-Car pure-electric concept that debuted at the Beijing Auto Show.
Spy Shots: Dongfeng Liuzhou SUV
Published on July 6, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor Company is a subsidiary of the Dongfeng Motor Corporation. It produces the Joyear and Fengxing MPV’s and trucks. The new SUV is aimed at the very low end of the SUV-market, cars like this don’t cost much more than 100.000 yuan, fake leather and a dvd-sound system included.
Beijing Auto Show Live: Dongfeng-Fengshen H30 Cross
Published on April 29, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
Fengshen is a new subbrand for passenger cars from Dongfeng Automotive, they sell two cars so far: the S30 sedan and the H30 hatchback. Sales are not going too well, mostly because of the rather boring design of both vehicles. So Dongfeng came up with this H30 Cross with a new front, blacked wheel-arches and roofrails. Engine is a 1.6 litre with 78kw and 142nm. Price starts around 80.000 rmb. Chinese people love this kind of vehicles, the cross-versions of other brands are usually the top sellers of the range, so likely sales will indeed go up.
Beijing Auto Show Live: Dongfeng K01 Vender Truck
Published on April 26, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
Dongfeng showed the K01 Vender Truck, a mianbaoche made as a small shop. It ain’t no concept or no funnything, vehicles like this are still widely used in China to sell small goods and food, although in the big cities they are a rare sight these days.
Beijing Auto Show Live: Dongfeng I-Car Concept
Published on April 24, 2010 by Tycho de Feyter
A nice concept from Dongfeng. And it was about time the boys from Wuhan got a little creative, their line up including the joint venture machines is rather boring. This one might change that, a bit. The I-Car, guess what, is a plug-in electric. Size: 2999x1670x1540. ’2999′ has to do with a Chinese tax-law, cars under 3 meter pay less. The range of the I-Car is 60 kilometer. That is all the info Dongfeng wished to share. No plans for production in the near future.
