Dongfeng 6 Ruijing 2018 – new Chinese pickup, official brother Nissan Navara

The new Chinese truck Dong Feng (Dongfeng) 6 Ruijing entered the Chinese market on October 24, 2018 and almost immediately became one of the class leaders in sales. Mainly because of the relationship with the Japanese pickup truck Nissan Navara, the latest generation. Overview of Dongfeng Ruijing 6 2018-2019 – photos, price, equipment and specifications of the new Chinese pickup truck, which is the official brother of pickup trucks, Nissan Navara, Mercedes-Benz X-class and Renault Alaska. The pickup price of Ruijing 6 from the Chinese company Dongfeng motor is quite affordable for motorists in China and is 89800-139800 yuan (approximately 865-1347 thousand conditional units), while the associated Japanese pickup truck Nissan Navara D23 is offered in China at a price of 139800-187800 yuan (1347-1810 thousand conventional units).

The new truck Dongfeng 6 Ruijing designed by Dongfeng Motor Limited (a joint venture between Dongfeng Motor and Nissan), is essentially a brother of the Nissan Navara platform, with a slightly redesigned exterior and redesigned interior. While the Chinese product is also in direct relation to Mercedes-Benz X-Class pickups and Renault Alaska. Thus, the new Dongfeng motor model claims to be the most modern and advanced pickup truck produced in China.

By the way, the Chinese outwardly novelty looks stylish and attractive. The image of the model shares similarities with the Japanese brother's truck, but local designers have tried to give the Ruijing 6 original spare parts.

So the new pickup model Dong Feng wears all the original front of the body. In the presence of a hood with characteristic longitudinal ribs and a punch that provide different levels of horizontal surfaces of the engine compartment cover, compact headlights with LED “cilia” daytime running lights, large and solid radiator grille with a Chinese company logo, a neat bumper with powerful plastic and round foglights.

When viewed from the side of the body, the Dongfeng Ruijing 6 looks the same as the body of the Nissan Navara, and the models can be distinguished only by the design of the alloy wheels and actions (the Chinese pickup truck looks at these things easier).

The rear of the car is also similar, but a Chinese version of the original, albeit with a less stylish tailgate and bumper.

Unlike Nissan Navara to offer in the international market with two types of cabs (King cab one four-seat cab with rear doors opening against it with a double cab is a full 5-seat saloon, 4 doors), the Chinese pickup truck is available in the China market only with 5-seater cabin and 4 doors.

• The external dimensions of the body, Dongfeng Ruijing 6 2018-2019, is 5290 mm long, 1850 mm wide, 1810 mm high, 3150 mm axle distance (wheelbase) and 207 mm ground clearance (clearance).

• The track of the front and rear wheels is 1570 mm.

• Geometric characteristics of the body new approach angle and departure angle of 31 degrees and 20 degrees.

  

• The size of the cargo box length is 1562 mm, width is 1510 mm, with a height of sides from 475 mm.

• The load capacity of the truck is 490 kg without the weight of the driver and passengers.

• Regardless of the level of equipment for the Chinese truck, only 16-inch alloy wheels with 225/70 R16 tires are offered.

The appearance of Dongfeng Ruijing 6 complete order, the interior, to put it mildly, trouble. But it's not clear why the Chinese truck received seats, door cards and the superstructure of the central tunnel from a Japanese relative, but the front panel and center console with all the equipment did not.

The front of the interior of the new pickup truck looks awful Dongfeng Motor.. old steering wheel and dashboard, strangely placed ventilation vents, sticky aluminum inserts, strange hard plastic door and leather. It seems that in the pursuit of a low-cost Chinese manufacturer, the price was tried to save on everything, in the end the interior will suffer.

The car truck Dongfeng 6 Ruijing is also quite modest, and the basic settings are usually poor. There are front airbags, ABS with EBD, central locking, a multifunction steering wheel, power windows on all doors, a simple audio system and air conditioning.

The most packaged configurations will please with an extended BAS, TCS and ESP system, rear parking sensors, a keyless entry system with an engine start / stop button (keyless start system) for the driver and front passenger seats, electrically adjustable and heated, LED daytime running lights, dual-zone climate control, a fairly advanced multimedia system with a 9-inch color touch screen (CarLife, Internet access point, Wi-Fi Internet, navigation, Bluetooth, rear view camera) and leather trim.

Specifications Dongfeng Ruijing 6 2018-2019.
The new Chinese pickup truck Dongfeng Motor Company named Ruijing 6 hides under the stylish body of the Japanese Nissan Navara D23 pickup truck. Therefore, in the technical arsenal of the Chinese New there is a strong ladder-type frame, the front suspension is independent, with double crossheads suspended on springs, the rear-dependent spring suspension with a continuous axle, rear or plug-in four-wheel drive, but the gasoline and diesel engines from the Chinese pickup truck are less powerful, than Japanese platform brother.

Under the hood is a petrol (model 2TZD) four-cylinder 2.4-liter engine (158 hp, 230 Nm) in company with a 5 manual gearbox or a four-cylinder 2.5-liter (model ZD25T5) turbo diesel (140 hp 305 Nm) paired with 5 manual transmissions and 6 offered as an option with an automatic transmission.