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2014 King Long Jockey

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King LongJockey

The Jockey — a minibus for the export shelves.

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Photo: Navigator84 · CC BY-SA 4.0

A defining chapter in King Long history.

Explore the ideas, engineering and context that shaped the King Long Jockey, then continue into its specifications and place in the marque's lineage.

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Origins

The King Long Jockey of 2014 packaged the company's light-bus competence for international markets: a minibus-van family offered across the developing world's shuttle, school and crew-transport needs, sold on the Xiamen builder's scale economics and spreading dealer web. Such products anchored Chinese bus exports' middle tier while headline electric city buses gathered the press. The Jockey's unglamorous duty — hotel runs in Accra, crew changes in Karachi — is the texture of a genuine industrial conquest: the world's routine passenger movement, progressively re-sourced to Fujian, invoice by invoice. The routine work of moving people, re-sourced continent by continent, needs no press release. From Accra hotel runs to Karachi crew changes, the type's working geography reads like a trade atlas.

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The facts that define it.

Produced

2014–present

Engine

2.8L I4 turbo Diesel engine

Body

4-door van
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The Jockey, in detail.

Production
2014–present
Body style
4-door van; 4-door minibus
Engine
2.8L I4 turbo Diesel engine; 2.3L I4 turbo Diesel engine
Transmission
5-speed manual; 6-speed manual
Assembly
China: Xiamen, Fujian
Manufacturer
King Long

Badge at launch

King Long logo used in 1988

King Long, 1988

This is the marque emblem that accompanied the Jockey's era. The full identity timeline is documented in the brand archive.

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