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Dongfeng KX The Donfeng KX is engineered to address the growing requirement for uptime, and fast and reliable just-in-time operations. Team CV
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hina’s commercial vehicle industry has been fast growing. It is quickly coming to turn out world-class trucks that are supporting the ambitions of its manuacturers to enter new export markets and carve out a biiger share of the markets that they are already into. China’s second biggest truck manufacturer in 2020 as per the production volume, Dongfeng introduced the KX early last year for heavy duty long-haulage transportation.
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Designed for the global market, the KX has been well-received. It is one of the four heavyduty truck models – Tianlong KX, Tianlong KL, Tianjin KR, and Dongfeng Tianlong KC, the company launched in April 2020 to be precise. Coming to account for a good number of the 78,000 units the company sold in April 2021 amid a growth rebound, the KX is engineered to address the growing requirement for uptime, and fast and reliable just-in-time operations.
First shown at IAA 2014, the KX firmly underscored the company’s ambition to penetrate the European market. The Eastern European markets if not the Euro 6 Western European markets. A flagship offering of the company this truck has been ever since its launch. Flaunting global design cues, the flagship truck’s cab is a highli reinforced design. It meets the latest European safety standards – the European ECE and the most demanding Swedish VVFS
