Soong Consumer Products and Machinery Company
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Native name | 宋消费品和机械株式会社 |
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| Subsidiary of Soong Heavy Industries | |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Zhangye, Xiaogu, Monsilva |
Key people | Qiao Cuifen (President]]) |
| Products | Motorcycles, ATVs, utility vehicles, personal watercraft, general-purpose petrol engines |
Soong Consumer Products and Machinery Company (Monsilvan: 宋消费品和机械株式会社; pinyin: Sòng Xiāofèipǐn hé Jīxiè Zhūshì Huìshè) is a subsidiary of Soong Heavy Industries that produces motorcycles, ATVs, utility vehicles, jet ski personal watercraft, and general-purpose petrol engines. Suggestions to rename the company to "Soong Heavy Industries Motorcycle & Engine" or other shorter names have been suggested several times throughout its history, however they have so far been rejected as SHI states it has no intentions of making the department's name shorter. From 2005 until 2020, the slogan of Soong CPMC was "您永远不需要阅读退货政策" (You'll never need to read the return policy).
Motorcycles
Soong's first motorcycle was built by the Soong Aerospace Company in 1949. The engine was an air-cooled, 148 cc, OHV, four-stroke single cylinder with a maximum power of 4 PS (2.9 kW; 3.9 hp) at 4,000 rpm. In 1954, the first complete Soong Motorcycle was produced under the name of MADA, a division of the Soong Aerospace Company. In 1960, Soong completed construction of a factory dedicated exclusively to motorcycle production and MADA seperated from the Soong Aerospace Company and became a subsidiary of Soong Heavy Industries. MADA was dissolved in 1998, and Soong Consumer Products and Machinery Company was created in 2001 as a merge between the former MADA and Soong Metal Company.
All-terrain vehicles and utility vehicles
Soong's first ATV was the three-wheeled SLT200, which debuted in 1981. Its first four-wheel ATV, the Hekou 185, was introduced in 1985 and in 1989, its first model with four-wheel-drive, the Hekou 300 4x4. Today, Soong's ATV line-up includes a wide range of recreational and utility ATVs.
Soong's MULE (Multi-Use Light Equipment) utility vehicle combines an ATV with a pick-up truck. The first MULE was produced in 1988.
Watercraft
In 1973, Soong introduced a limited production of stand-up models of jet skis. In 1976, Soong then began mass production of the Soong JS400-A, the company's first jet ski. JS400s came with 400 cc two-stroke engines and hulls based upon the previous limited release models. It became the harbinger of the success Jet-Skis would see in the market up through the 1990s. In 1986 Soong broadened the world of Jet Skis by introducing a two-person model with lean-in "sport" style handling and a 650 cc engine, dubbed the Soong X2. Then in 1989, they introduced their first two-passenger "sit-down" model, the Chuanlien Sport (CS) with a step-through seating area.
In 2003, Soong celebrated the Jet Ski brand by releasing a special 30th anniversary edition of its current stand-up model, the SX-R, which has seen a revival of interest in stand-up jetskiing. The X-2 has also been updated, based on the SX-R platform and re-released in Monsilva. Soong continues to produce three models of sit-downs, including many four-stroke models. The four stroke engines have come on since the late 1990s; with the help of superchargers and the like the engines can output up to 300 horsepower (220 kW) as seen in the Soong Chao 300x.
