Just read some interesting news, the Brazilian company TRAXX a Jialing subsidiary is going to start selling the JH600 here in Brazil. It will be sold under the Name Dunna 600.
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Just read some interesting news, the Brazilian company TRAXX a Jialing subsidiary is going to start selling the JH600 here in Brazil. It will be sold under the Name Dunna 600.
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Dear Blazeafar,
Wow, that's huge! I've long wondered why Jialing hadn't launched the JH600 outside of China, and it always worried me that it hadn't, as if it didn't have the confidence in the bike to go beyond the home market. I sure hope this means a higher level of internal and external support for the bike. Those of is in China are almost completely on our own with this bike, as there is essentially no dealer service network within China. For support we have to deal directly with the factory in Chongqing.
I'll not hold my breath about better support inside China, but at least if they are supporting a retail operation overseas, someone inside the mothership will have to be thinking more proactively about this strange creature called "the customer".
Keep us posted about how this rolls out, especially how they position and price it in the market.
best thanks, and cheers!
A little more info, the release will be in 2012
Here is a link to event where the news was released.
http://www.traxx.com.br/827/salao-duas-rodas
Enjoy, and no drooling!:eekers:
China South Industrial group….
http://www.csgc.com.cn/n43/n91259/n9...5/content.html
That group has Jialing, Jianshe and Qingqi within its Motorcycle division.
http://www.csgc.com.cn/n43/n91259/n9...0/content.html
Huge would be an understatement.
Huge indeed. There's a press release on that site (in the News section) saying that China South ranks No. 275 on the global Fortune 500 list of the world's biggest companies.
Oh, and the company's name in Chinese (which I remember noting before) is 中国摒弃装备集团公司, which means China Ordnance Equipment Group Company. Yes, "ordnance" as in military weaponry and ammunition. :hellfire:
Interesting how they've sanitized the name in English!
I forgot Dayang which is actually the largest motorcycle manufacturer in china, you can see their products also in the TRAXX line.
Excerpt from a related article (source)
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It's said that most of Jialing's current products are medium and small displacement motorcycles. Jialing Group has made plans to develop and produce displacements between 250cc and 1800cc motorcycle products in a bid to enter the large displacement motorcycle world.
What's interesting is that a 600cc large displacement two-wheeled motorcycle which was launched on the market earlier provides a terrific market prospect, and its domestic sales price was increased from RMB 29,800 to RMB 31,800. It's even a competitive rival of BMW 650cc on overseas markets including Nigeria and Sudan due to its popularity.
"We will successively launch the 300cc and 800cc Street Racing bikes on the market in this year and next year." Mr. Duan Xiao said that they had planned many large displacements production lines for Jialing's new plant Bishan. Jialing's large displacement vehicle business will not only involve motorcycles, but also light power special vehicles including snowmobiles and ATVs relying on its large displacement engine platform.
If things progress smoothly as planned, the sales revenue of Jialing's large displacement vehicles will account for half of its total sales revenue in the next three years.
According to Mr. Duan Xiao, Jialing will mostly make motorcycles, light power vehicles, special equipments, optical and op-tronics products after its relocation. The COEGC (China Ordnance Equipment Group Corporation) gives Jialing the following strategic orientation: making profits as its goal, and making high and medium end products as its major task. "That is to say COEGC wants Jialing to be the Harley-Davidson of China," said Mr. Duan Xiao.
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I had heard that the JH600 is in Nigeria, didn't know about Sudan, but IMHO Brazil is a biggie.
Received this question from a fellow JH600 rider: Are my eyes deceiving me on those Brazil photos? Did that new-blue Brazilian JH600 have the first generation wheels on it?
Not sure, but I do know is that they are definitely bigger than the China ones - this I can tell.
http://www.traxx.com.br/admin/auxi/F...20of%2039).jpg
I think those are blue fembots, manufactured by the Chinese Ordnance Group, being tested by the Brazilin Defense Ministry. That ones facial circuits may be malfunctioning, it may be attempting to cut the bad circuit automatically.
Interested to see how the JH600 handles the Ethanol fuel in Brazil. Honda has developed many flexible-fuel technology innovations, including MIX/ALCOHOL injectors and a Replaceable Secondary Filter for motorcycles. These innovations may need to be added to the JH600 for optimal performance when running on Sugarcane!
From Wikipedia:
There are no longer any light vehicles in Brazil running on pure gasoline. Since 1976 the government made it mandatory to blend anhydrous ethanol with gasoline, fluctuating between 10% to 22% and requiring just a minor adjustment on regular gasoline engines. In 1993 the mandatory blend was fixed by law at 22% anhydrous ethanol (E22) by volume in the entire country, but with leeway to the Executive to set different percentages of ethanol within pre-established boundaries. In 2003 these limits were set at a minimum of 20% and a maximum of 25%. Since July 1, 2007 the mandatory blend is 25% of anhydrous ethanol and 75% gasoline or E25 blend.The lower limit was reduced to 18% in April 2011 due to recurring ethanol supply shortages and high prices that take place between harvest seasons.
The Brazilian car manufacturing industry developed flexible-fuel vehicles that can run on any proportion of gasoline (E20-E25 blend) and hydrous ethanol (E100). Introduced in the market in 2003, flex vehicles became a commercial success, reaching a record 92.3% share of all new cars and light vehicle sales for 2009. By December 2009 they represented 39% of Brazil's registered Otto cycle light motor vehicle fleet, and the cumulative production of flex-fuel cars and light commercial vehicles reached the milestone of 10 million vehicles in March 2010, with 70 flex models available in the market by mid 2010 from 11 major carmakers. The success of "flex" vehicles, together with the mandatory E25 blend throughout the country, have allowed ethanol fuel consumption in the country to achieve a 50% market share of the gasoline-powered fleet by February 2008. In terms of energy equivalent, sugarcane ethanol represented 17.6% of the country's total energy consumption by the transport sector in 2008.
China is blending Ethanol as well - especially Guangxi Province, mostly from Sugar Cane & Cassava. Fuel in Guangxi has a minimum of 10% bio-ethanol in it, often more! The quality is not very stable and the blend is often of dubious quality resulting in many problems.
If you ever in Guangxi province and have problems with your engine you never had before, a good chance they are fuel related!
You can still get gasoline that does not contain Ethanol here in Brazil, just cost more. Just have to wait to see if the JH600 is tweeked to run on E25 or so.
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Looks like it is offical. TRAXX has announced the release of the Dunna 600.
http://traxx.com.br/dunna/
Just need to wait to see if the release a hacked version.
did you see the price its 19.880.00
Wow, about 62,000 rmb (double the China price).Quote:
Originally Posted by MJH
I've heard that Brazil has high import duties for motorcycles, and bikes are expensive there, but I don't really know.
What I do know is that Brazil is an amazingly beautiful country! Unlucky with prices, lucky with scenery & lifestyle!
Does the name "Dunna" mean anything in Portuguese?
Duna means dune, they threw in an extra letter n and made it Dunna, dunno why they would, maybe somebody in the marketing department at Traxx likes double consonants?
wow!!! 62K for a Jialing JH600, no thanks! I'd be buying a much better bike for that amount of money. In that situation even if I didn't have enough money for something like a KLR650 or DR650 or DL650 I'd just keep saving until I had enough money to buy one of these long before I'd spend anywhere near 62K.
I'm not even prepared to buy one in mainland China for 30K+ after the bad after sales support other MCM owners have had with their JH600's. I don't support manufacturers who don't give a toss about their customers (which is very typical in PRC -IMO and experience). YMMV!
Dunna is a colloquial term used in parts of Australia for a Duvet (bed covering). In this context, maybe Dunna is quite fitting... LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by MJH
Check the prices on a DRZ400 in Brazil its 140% higher then the price of the Dunna 600, Brazil has a closed economy they claim a 5% growth in GDP and also a 5% inflation rate, that results in nothing new and only higher prices. The Chinese are on a similar economic path.
The retail price of a DRZ400 in the US is 25% of its retail price in Brazil.
Thats what happens due to the 120% import tax on vehicles. Luckly the Dunna is assembled here in Brazil so the taxes are somewhat lower.
Dont overlook the special deal, for the price of $10,000 USD you also get a backpack, gloves and a tee shirt!:eek2:
Here are some article related to prices of vehicle in Brazil
http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-new...pping-leblon/#
http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-new...n-parts-daily/
Good evening friends! I'm motocilista more than 20 years. Now came to the JH BRAZIL 600 with the name of dunna 600. Today I want to change AQUILA 250 more for Traill. Would like to know your impressions of the JH 600. Thank you.