Dongfeng Warrior, a licensed copy of the famous HMMWV a.k.a. Humvee a.k.a Hummer, has finally reached the showroom floors after its original announcement in 2008.
The car had originally been restricted to the China military, where it has been used for the past 15 years. Dongfeng assembled earlier cars from U.S.-made components, but gradually localized the production. The video attached to this news article shows a 2016 version of the truck before its 2017MY facelift that brought along a slanted windshield and more comfort options.
The first civilian-oriented Dongfeng Warrior is called the M50, and it is a single-cab, two-seat vehicle primarily marketed towards the police, state services, and farmers. It features permanent AWD, a body-on-frame construction, and spring-based independent suspension.
The interior with its wide transmission tunnel stays largely unchanged, the main novelty coming in the form of an infotainment display. A licensed Cummins turbo diesel under the hood has four liters of displacement and churns out 200 PS (197 hp / 147 kW) and 600 Nm (443 lb-ft) of torque. The transmission is manual.
Prices start at $103,000. Only 20 cars have shipped so far, but the company plans to increase production and start offering passenger-carrying and special variants of the truck as well.