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I found pictures of two unknown Chang Feng vehicles presented at 2004 Auto Show.

First one is this SUV with nose similiar to Nissan X-trail. Does anyone know any information about this car (name, specifications)? Was it even produced?

http://www.marklines.com/img/report/en/rep382_035.jpg

http://www.marklines.com/en/report/rep382_200506_imgs2

 

[CCF mod]

Second one is this ridiculously lookong concept. To me it looks like unfinished work of untalented designer or child. How did company even dare to show this thing to public. Again I have absolutely no information about it whatsoever.

 

[Joest]

At first, I thaught the second one was a 3-wheeler, but I think it has diamond-dispatched wheels, just like the drawing of a coach from the 30s by Gabriel Voisin or a prototype shown at the Paris Auto Show in 1996 by the late Philippe Charbonneaux.
The body is also a rip-off from Charbonneaux's car.

The SUV is just ugly. Good thing they didn't produce it.

 

[erik (laofan) cmvdc]

The first model is the Pioneer (Xianfeng) CFA 2030E/ CFA 2030F. The suv was shown as a prototype at the Shanghai Salon 2005, but never taken into production.
The second one is a version fo the diamond dispatched wheels model from the Hunan University. At the Beijing Show 2008 there were two concepts from this university, one newer version of this diamond four wheeler and a normal sedan.

 

[dragin]

Hi Laofan,
As usual we thank you for the clarification.

I'm guessing the Pioneer is a Changfeng-ized Mitsubishi Pajero? Am I right?

Joest, I actually like the nose that they designed for it. It's too bad they didn't stay with it. It's got a bold look..... fitting for a rugged SUV.

The Hunan University "great new concept" was shown in Detroit in 2007 beside the Changfeng display. There it went by the name Rhombus.

I wonder if it was Hunan U that designed the nose of the Pioneer.

Joest can you show us a photo of the Charbonneaux car?

 

[erik (laofan) cmvdc]

Here two pictures of the new version of the Rhombus. And two of the sedan from the Hunan University.

 

[Joest]

Here is Charbonneaux's Ellipsis from 1996. I thaught it would be closer to the Hunan university's car.

The grey one is the Pininfarina PFX from 1961, it also has diamond-shaped wheels