JMC or Jiangling Motors Corporation Limited is an automobile manufacturer founded in Nanchang, China in 1952. They primarily design, manufacture, and sell minibuses, pickup trucks, and other vehicles. JMC has had joint ventures with Ford Motors and Changan since 1997.
The company can be traced way back in its foundation in 1952 as a small truck repair shop with the name Nanchang Motors Repair Factory. It was in 1993 when they first had their partnership with Isuzu and Itochu. This paved the way for the company to produce car components and cab compartments of the N-Series light truck. They were also tasked to assemble vehicles for the two partner companies.
The partnership also paved way to the approval of JMC to be reorganized and to further then create a joint stock limited company in the first quarter of 1993. Their A shares and B shares were listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on the December that year and September 1995, respectively.
Since JMC was only a startup company built only by the said partnerships, their lineup are pretty much inspiration from existing models of big car companies. The JMC BaoWei is an SUV based on the Isuzu Rodeo while the JMC Qingka is a truck based and licensed by Isuzu as well.
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It was only in the late 2010 when JMC was able to launch their own passenger vehicle, the Yusheng SUV. They are represented by a chrome logo with three arrowheads pointing to the middle from the left, right, and bottom sides together with the Chinese name marquee at the bottom.
Their production base is located in Nanchang, the capital of the Jianxi province. This plant is owned by Ford Motors. It is targeted that the future vehicles to be designed by JMC will be produced at the NedCar factory located in Born, Netherlands.