Dongfeng EQ140

The Dongfeng EQ140 is a 5-ton truck built by the Dongfeng Motor Corporation at the Second Automobile Works and introduced in 1978. It was the first civilian vehicle the company made, after its first truck, the EQ240, and it turned the loss-making Dongfeng into a profitable firm. The design drew on the Jiefang CA-10 and on the EQ240 but was developed by FAW Group, and many smaller companies also assembled the truck from parts that Dongfeng supplied. In its first production year, 1978, 5,120 were built, and at its peak the EQ140 held a 66 percent share of China's medium-duty truck class. A 1984 facelift added a panoramic windscreen and a better interior as the EQ140-1, a 1992 update called the EQ140-2 used Nissan Diesel technology, and a final rounded-bonnet restyle in 1994 was built only in limited numbers. Production ended in 2011, with some 1.1 million sold by 2010.