Changhe

Changhe (Chinese:昌河) is the automobile brand of a Chinese vehicle manufacturer named Jiangxi Changhe Automobile Co. Ltd.. (in short: Changhe Auto), located in the prefecture-level city of Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province. The manufacturer Jiangxi Changhe Automobile Co. Ltd.. was founded on 26 November 1999 and was initially a subsidiary of Changhe Aircraft Industries or their precursors, a Chinese company for the construction of helicopters. The beginnings of the automobile industry in Changhe Aircraft, however, reach back far before the time of the founding of Jiangxi Changhe Automobile. From November 2009 to October 2013 was Jiangxi Changhe Automobile Co. Ltd.. a subsidiary of Chang'an Group. In November 2013 Changhe car has been to 70 percent of the Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Corporation, shortly BAIC taken over.

Currently, Changhe Auto has in the two cities Jingdezhen and Jiujiang, both in the province of Jiangxi, each a manufacturing plant and another smaller one in Hefei in Anhui Province, with a total annual capacity of combined 270,000 vehicles per year (as of: Nov. 2013).

The first in-house developments of Jiangxi Changhe Automobile, which were independent of other automakers, falling in the year 2002, so the actual beginning of the independent brand Changhe must be settled at this time. With the brand logo vehicle designs are labeled, either by way of own developments of the company Jiangxi Changhe Automobile Co. Ltd.. have emerged, or are taken from the work of the joint venture company Jiangxi Changhe Suzuki Automobile, provided that both the Chinese and the Japanese side have introduced a significant role in the development of the relevant production-ready prototypes, which then goes into production, and thus, both sides have worked out a claim on the marketing of the vehicle design. In such a case, some of the vehicles produced by Changhe logo provided ( representative of the company Jiangxi Changhe Automobile), another part of the vehicles produced, however, with the Suzuki logo ( representative of the company Jiangxi Changhe Suzuki Automobile).

Vehicle models of this brand

The design of the small car with the model name Ideal is occasionally subjected by the Italian designer Bertone a facelift. In the same measure and the interior is refreshed again and again. The production-ready prototype of Changhe Ideal II, the successor model to the ideal I, was in May 2007 already exists. The model needs some time later went into mass production and thus have the ideal I replaced. Since 2009 the Changhe Ideal is also exported to other countries.

• Changhe Ideal I ( October 2003-2007 46-79 hp) (Product Series CH7111 )
• Changhe Ideal II (2007-2008; 46-91 hp)
• Changhe Ideal II (2008-2009; 46-91 hp)
• Changhe Ideal II (2009-2010; 46-98 hp)
• Changhe Ideal II ( currently (as of: Feb. 2011) ) ( product types CH7101B/CH7101BE/CH7101BE3/CH7101BE4 ) and ( product types CH7111B1/CH7111BE/CH7111BE3/CH7111BE4 )

Other vehicle models:

• Single Changhe minitruck (since 2002 ) ( Product Type CH1012Ei, later CH1012LEi )
• Changhe Double Mini Truck ( since 2002) ( Product Type CH1011Ei, later CH1011AEi )
• Changhe mini bus (2002-2005? ) ( Product types CH6321Ei/CH6328Ei )
• Changhe Dolphin Mini Bus (May 2003-2010 ) (Product Series CH6370, among other things, the types of products CH6370/CH6370A/CH6370B/CH6370C )
• Changhe CoolCar ( around since the beginning of 2007 ) (Product Types CH6391A3/CH6391A1/CH6391A2/CH6391C2/CH6391C4 ) This model looks like a stand-alone Chinese modification of the Suzuki Every Landy of 2005.
• Changhe CoolCar A ( since 2009) ( product types CH7140/CH7140A/CH7140A1/CH7140D/CH7140D1 )
• Changhe CoolCar A e ( since 2010) ( Product Type CH7140B1 ) This model is obviously an independent modification of the Chinese -built from 2008 Suzuki Wagon R dar.
• Changhe Freedom ( Furuida ) Mini Van (2007-2011) ( product types CH6390E/CH6390E3/CH6390E4/CH6390LE3/CH6390LE4 )
• Changhe Freedom ( Furuida ) Blind Van ( since about 2008) ( Product Type CH6390 ) In contrast to Freedom ( Furuida ) Mini Van, which is all around glazed like a bus, then this model is a van, the side part, without windows closed and rear with Blendwerk is provided. It has largely van - character.
• Changhe Freedom Single Mini Truck This model ( since about 2009) is offered in versions as a pick -up with a single cabin ( product types CH1020LE/CH1020LE3 ).
• Changhe Freedom Double Mini Truck ( since about 2009) This model is offered in configurations as Pick -up Double Cab ( product types CH1021LE/CH1021LE3 ).

Changhe Freedom Single minitruck and Changhe Freedom Double Mini Truck resold by Martin Motors under the name Freedom Cab.

• Changhe Fuyun Mini Van (since summer 2011) This model, which looks like a facelift model over Freedom ( Furuida ) Mini Van, is probably the successor to the latter, the vehicle dimensions have become slightly larger and the engine in favor of increasing 1,3 - liter 95PS engine was changed.

Models from the time when Changhe was not yet an independent brand with your own logo

Former vehicle models from Changhe Aircraft Industries or their precursors, which were built with Suzuki license

• Changhe CH1010 ( corresponds minivan, Suzuki Carry ST 90VT ) ( 1982-1984 )
• Changhe CH6320 ( corresponds minivan, Suzuki Carry ST 90VT ) ( 1984-2000? )
• Changhe CH6321 ( corresponds minivan, Suzuki Carry SK 410VT ) ( 1993-2002)
• Changhe CH6321D ( minivan corresponds Suzuki Carry SK 410VT ) ( 1993-2002)
• Changhe CH6328 ( corresponds minivan, Suzuki Carry SK 410VT ) ( 1993-2002)
• Changhe CH1012 ( pick-up corresponds to Suzuki Carry SK 410VT ) ( 1993-2002)