Қытайдың ZX Auto автомобиль өндірушісі

Chinese motor vehicle manufacturer

Hebei Zhongxing Automobile Co Ltd, branded as ZX Auto, is a Chinese producer of SUVs and pick up trucks. and exports to the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Central and South America. The company claims a per year production capacity of 110,000 units – a figure that could conflate engines and whole vehicles.

In the latter half of the 2000s, the company sought access to the US market with the help of US company Capital Corp, and it participated in the 2007 National Automobile Dealers Association convention. While US sales were touted as late as 2008, the company has yet to sell its models in developed countries. Products are available in some EU member states, however. found their way into rebel hands and were turned into technicals replete with mounted guns. As the conflict progressed, pro Qaddafi forces also began using pick ups after NATO aerial bombing raids disabled their armoured vehicles. Some sales are to Chinese state organizations. c. 2014, the company removed a reference to co ownership by Taiwan Unite Leading Co and Hebei Tianye Automobile Group Co Ltd from its website. Website modifications also included changing the year of the company's formation from 1999 to 1949 although 1999 remained referenced as the year ZX Auto was "transformed into a joint venture company." In late 2010, it started construction of a new plant in Yichang, Hubei, that will build SUVs and sedans. As of late 2014, the company does reference a Baoding production base on its website claiming a production capacity of 50,000 units. Some of its products are assembled in small, overseas factories from knock down kits, and ZX Auto states that the majority of its exports are in the form of these kits. The companies that own these factories and do the final assembly are not necessarily affiliated with ZX Auto. Such assembly has commenced in Egypt, Iran, and Jordan, where a 5,000 unit/year factory was under construction as of 2008. As of 2011, the company hopes new knock down factories will spring up in Mexico and Malaysia. In Poland, a pick up, the Grand Tiger, is produced and sold by Polish company POL MOT Warfama.