ZX Auto and its legendary "military" pickup trucks ZX Auto Grand Tiger

ZX Auto (Hebei Zhongxing Automobile), a small car manufacturer, produces SUVs and pickup trucks for the Chinese market and countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Central and South America. The company has 3 own factories and an experienced design department.

ZX Auto was founded in 1999 and in just a few years has become a fairly large concern. According to various sources, the volume of car production exceeds 100 thousand copies. Products are sold in more than 40 countries.

The official founders are Tianye Automobile Group and Taiwan Unite Leading.

To whom is the war, and to whom is the mother dear

During its existence, ZX Auto tried to enter the US and other markets, but was not successful enough. Although after a while cars began to be sold in the EU, Asia and the Middle East.

The acquisition of wide popularity of ZX Auto is connected with the civil war in Libya, when 6 ZX Auto Grand Tiger pickups got to the militants. They turned them into real military vehicles with attached weapons equipment. After that, at least 15,000 ZX Auto pickups were exported to Libya, some deliveries were made to Libya by the Chinese government as an aid.

In 2014, the composition of shareholders may have been changed, but there was no official information about this.

Production

The main production is concentrated in China, and the company also has an R&D center and a research center. The enterprise also carries out foreign assembly, but only final assembly work from ready-made kits is carried out at foreign bases.

It must be said that the company does not disclose the location of its production facilities. It is assumed that the factories are located in Changchun and Yichang. The site lists only the Baoding production base with an assembly capacity of 50,000 vehicles per year.

It must be said that ZX Auto has established sales of not only cars, but also prefabricated kits, which in the country of presence can be assembled by companies that are not related to ZX Auto. This assembly has been established by local manufacturers in Egypt, Mexico, Malaysia and Poland.