What do the words FAW, 2W and 3W on some cars mean?

The "First Automobile Works" and "Second Automobile Works" in cars refer to the First Automobile Manufacturing Plant and the Second Automobile Manufacturing Plant. There is no Three Automobile Works in China, and Three Automobile Works is generally just used as a joke.

1. First Automobile Manufacturing Plant

First Automobile Manufacturing Plant is now China FAW Group Co., Ltd. (referred to as FAW Group, China FAW or China FAW Group), located in China Changchun City, Jilin Province.

It owns Hongqi brand passenger cars, Pentium passenger cars, Jiefang commercial vehicles and other automobile brands. Business areas include automobile research and development, production, sales, logistics, services, auto parts, financial services, automobile insurance, mobile travel, etc.

China FAW also produces and sells passenger cars of Volkswagen, Audi, Toyota, Mazda and other brands through joint ventures and cooperation with internationally renowned companies such as Germany's Volkswagen, Audi, Japan's Toyota and Mazda.

II. Second Automobile Manufacturing Plant

The Second Automobile Manufacturing Plant, referred to as "Second Automobile Manufacturing Plant", is now called Dongfeng Motor Group Co., Ltd. It was built in Shiyan City, Hubei Province in 1969. It produces "Dongfeng" trucks, "Fukang" cars and later "Elysee" cars, etc. Second Automobile Works was originally under the separate planning management of the State Council. It was renamed Dongfeng Motor Company in the 1990s and has 120,000 employees.

China Second Automobile Group mainly produces and assembles buses, trucks, cars and auto parts, using its own brands or international brands in joint ventures with it.

Dongfeng was established in 1968 at the call of Mao Zedong. As part of the "third line" strategy, the Second Automobile Group was built in Shiyan, Hubei Province. Dongfeng is China's second-largest automaker and a state-controlled enterprise.

After Dongfeng successfully moved its headquarters to Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, it has realized an industrial layout with "Shiyan, Wuhan" as the main focus and supplemented by many places across the country.

Extended information

The first car in New China

In March 1950, the Central Ministry of Heavy Industry established an automobile industry preparatory group to start the construction of the first automobile manufacturing plant. Preparatory work. Subsequently, the First Automobile Manufacturing Plant (referred to as FAW, see China FAW Group Corporation) was included in the key projects of the first five-year construction plan started in 1953.

The construction of the First Automobile Manufacturing Plant started in Changchun on July 15 of that year. It took three years to complete, and the hard work paid off. After three years of technical research, on July 14, 1956, FAW General Assembly The first batch of Jiefang brand trucks manufactured by the Chinese was launched online. This batch of 12 cars, code-named CA10, ended the history of China being unable to build cars.

“Liberation”, China’s number one automobile brand named by Chairman Mao Zedong, has also embarked on a historical journey of equipping Chinese automobiles and created the “Era of Liberation” of Chinese automobiles. The CA10 is derived from the Gies 150 model of the Stalin Automobile Factory in the Soviet Union. It has a load of 4 tons, a top speed of 65 kilometers per hour, and is equipped with a 6-cylinder water-cooled 5.5-liter gasoline engine. Maximum power is 71 kilowatts.

The car is sturdy and durable, has a large weight, low power, speed and acceleration. It has a simple structure, is easy to use and maintain, and has low demand for fuel, raw materials, and external accessories. It is more suitable for China at that time. The road conditions, petroleum, steel and other related industrial bases are weak, and the social supporting supply capacity is insufficient.

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