2023-10-24 12:18:59
The Motorinvest company, which in the summer became the official distributor of the Dongfeng brand in Russia, announced a large-scale expansion of its model range. Eight new models are on the way! Of these, seven are crossovers. Technical data of cars in Russian specifications will be announced later, not to mention trim levels and prices. However, the cars themselves have already been revealed.
Let’s start with the Dongfeng Aeolus range: the Shine Max sedan will be joined by three crossovers. The first is the second generation Dongfeng AX7, regarding 4.6 m long (1.5 l, 190 hp in China), which has been produced since 2018, but has since been restyled. The second is the youth SUV Dongfeng Mage, known in China since last year under the name Haohan (1.5 l, 204 hp). And the third model is Dongfeng Huge, or Haoji for the Chinese market. The latter is already sold in Belarus, where there are two modifications to choose from – with a 1.5 engine with a power of 190 hp. (the price in Russian rubles is 3 million 376 thousand) and a 245-horsepower hybrid (3 million 920 thousand).
In the series of DFSK Seres cars (joint developments with the Seres company), the recently returned three-row crossover Dongfeng 580 will be accompanied by four more models. The 4.4 m long Dongfeng 500, which in its electric version is known to us as the Evolute i-Joy, is called the Fengguang 500 in China and has been produced since 2019. It is equipped with an aspirated engine (116 hp) or a turbo engine (150 hp) with a volume of 1.5 liters. The second model is called Dongfeng 600, but in fact it is the second generation Dongfeng 580 (1.5 l, 184 hp), presented in the fall of 2021. The third and fourth models are the coupe-shaped Dongfeng ix5, 4.7 m long, presented at the beginning of 2018, and the Dongfeng ix7, 4.9 m long, unified with it, shown in 2019. Interestingly, the ix7 is no longer sold in China.
The Dongfeng Paladin frame SUV (in the title photo), which premiered just two months ago, closes the list of announced new products. This is a relative of the Nissan X-Terra model; it is equipped with a licensed Mitsubishi gasoline turbo engine (2.0 l, 228 hp). It is expected that all eight new models will appear in Russian dealerships by the end of the first quarter of 2024.
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