The Dongfeng EQ2100 is one of the Dongfeng entries the open record knows by name, and by little else. That is not nothing: a name in the catalogue is where a car's story starts to be recoverable.
How it came about
The EQ245/EQ2100 is a 3.5 tonne capacity, six-wheel drive troop/cargo carrier truck developed and built by Dongfeng Motor Corporation and used by the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China for transport. It entered service in the 1980s as the EQ245 and renamed EQ2100E in the 1990s.
Family and rivals
Its Dongfeng stablemates include the Dongfeng Fengshen L7 and the Front Drive Motor.