JI Motor Company
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| Slogan | The Ultimate in Car Bombing Luxury |
| Established | 1988 |
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| Type | Private |
| Founder | Homar Jaffar, Omar Ismail |
| Location | Jalalabad, Afghanistan |
| Industry | Automotive |
| Employees | 60 |
| Products | Automotive |
| Revenue | 500, 000 afghanis |
| Parent | None |
| Website | {{{homepage}}} |
JI Motor Company or JI is a private car company in Afghanistan founded in 1988 by two businessmen Homa Jafaar and Omar Ismail. It's also probably the first automotive industry in Afghanistan to use ideas of unique engineering work that set other auto industries apart but however, it's well known for it's car lemons.
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[edit] Cars
JI Little Man
The JI Little Man was the first car launched by JI in 1990. It was simply a rebadged Hyundai Excel shipped from South Korea to JI and it has been tweaked to become a JI, even changing the badges.
The Little Man came with one cylinder of butane gas. The benefit of butane gas is that it's ability to combust while it's cleaner burning and it's even cheaper than petroleum and in some events when there are shortages of petrol, when the area's under war, the car can simply run on butane gas. It comes with a 4 speed manual transmission driving the front wheels and only comes with a 3 door hatchback or panelvan body style.
The Little Man was a success story in Afghanistan and throughout the Middle East. It is then sold in overseas markets but they had been hit hard by criticisms elsewhere. Production ended in 1997.
JI Fat Boy
The JI Fat Boy was a second car from JI and the only off-roader JI had. The Fat Boy is a rebadged Isuzu Mu but only came with a short wheelbase, 2 door version. Following the Little Man's success, the Fat Boy was launched in 1992.
It had a butane tank like the Little Man but JI added extras including the world's first lithium battery which is more powerful and efficient than a conventional car battery but it costs more. It also had an aluminum fuel tank, a gas heater and a trip computer.
It was sold in overseas markets but had worse than the Little Man together with criticisms from owners and motoring critics worldwide. Production ended in 2000.
JI Wisdom
In response of falling sales and increasing reliability problems and negative publicity, JI had to find another car, a more reliable, sophisticated and a better car and the JI Wisdom may hold their answer. It is a full-sized car which is a rebadged Dodge Intrepid sourced from Canada. JI forbidded the idea of having a cylinder of butane gas because of issues but stuck with the idea of having a lithium battery and a newly improved trip computer. Production started in 1995.
The Wisdom turned out better than other JIs thanks to the removal of the gas tank and an improved trip computer over a regular trip computer in a JI Fat Boy that stuffed up it's dashboard and sparked a fire and a removal of a gas heater lessens the danger of a backfire. But then, other problems start later. The problems were usually located in the engine, the cooling system and the transmission. The problems include blown head gaskets, blown spark plugs, perished radiator hoses, overheating radiator and even a blown transmission.
With evergrowing problems, JI is under pressure of fixing those problems which turn out almost impossible to fix so it ended production of the Wisdom and the business at the end of 2001.
JI Extreme
It's been 5 years for the defunct JI Motor Company. The business was bought and production started with a JI Extreme but it isn't any ordinary car, it's a "suicide" bombing car. JI gained permission from Volkswagen in Germany to produce Volkswagen Transporters as JI Extremes.
The Extreme had 6 cylinders of explosive Uranium, suicide seat belts, twin fertiliser airbags and a JIPS Navigator developed by JI. The mechanical specifications are those of a regular Transporter. It can also do 0 to 100 victims in under 5 seconds.
The JI Extreme sparked sales from a successful ad campaign made by the Chaser in Australia. The Extreme is only sold round the Middle East, not elsewhere.
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[edit] Origins
Two billionaires, Homa Jafaar and Omar Ismail were very interested in cars ever since they were young. In 1988, they formed an automotive business of Afghanistan and named the company JI after their surnames (Jafaar Ismail). Jafaar and Ismail also hired Osama Habib as the CEO of the JI Motor Company and employed 35 engineers and through the 2 years, engineers worked on new ideas in the likes of conveniences to be built in the soon to be new cars from JI.
In 1990, the production fired ahead as JI gained permission from Hyundai to import the Excels to Afghanistan and JI did work on these cars and then, they sell them as JI Little Mans. The cars then become a success throughout the Middle East costing 138 afghanis(about $6,000). JI Motor Company opened up another car, the JI Fat Boy sourced from Isuzu in 1992.
Then, problems arose. Overseas, JI Little Mans developed problems with gas tank leaks, some power loss and quality issues. JI Fat Boys on the other hand had worser problems. In cold regions, it had faulty heaters. Other than that, elsewhere, it had engine and electrical problems led by a lithium battery which is too powerful and a same problem with a leaking gas tank in the JI Little Man. With those problems, they played part of a fire which destroyed a JI Fat Boy in Bulgaria.
JI had to find a more rebiable car. They also didn't put in a cylinder of butane gas but they put in an improved trip computer. It was a better car but newer problems developed and some experts believed that the Wisdom isn't used to hot climates even in Afghanistan. And then, JI's under pressure from JI owners with their problems to get fixed. It isn't easy. They tried their best to fix them and the cars had give almost no trouble but not for long.
Another problem JI faced are production ends of cars they were sourcing from. With the JI Little Man, the original Excel ended production in 1994 so to keep the Little Man in production, JI had to build those cars themselves. The main issues were with poor build quality and a lack of refinement. When the Dodge Intrepid ended production in 1995, Dodge gave away it's tools to JI for the Wisdom and it had some improvement but still had it's problems.
But it wasn't enough to help the negative publicity and comments from owners all over and even from motoring critics. JIs were regarded as lemons. The JI Motor Company was forced to shut down at the end of 2001 and Homa Jafaar and Omar Ismail decided to give up.
JI Motor Company opened up and released the JI Extreme. The new workers were so called terrorist workers and they developed car bombing prototypes and one known test was in a JI Wisdom.[1]
Also, when the JI Extreme is launched, JI also made a slogan "The Ultimate in Car Bombing Luxury."
[edit] Sales
Middle East
All JIs are sold in the Middle East.
Asia
All JIs are sold in Russia, Kazakstan, Afghanistan, Mongolia and anywhere else except, India, China, Japan, North and South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. JI Little Mans were sold in India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Taiwan. In South and North Korea, the original Hyundai Excel is sold in Japan, China and Thailand. The JI Fat Boy is sold in the north-west regions of Asia. The rest are sold as original Isuzu Mus. The JI Wisdom is sold in Afghanistan, Russia, Kazakstan, Turkey, the Philippines (Mindanao only) and Mongolia.
Europe
All JIs are sold in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Austria, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Luxembourg, Italy and the United Kingdom. However, with issues of reliability and a lack of service, the company withdrew from Europe and all cars were destroyed.
Africa
Only the JI Little Man and Fat Boy are sold in Africa but only a few of them have survived.
North America
The JI Little Mans are a big seller in Canada, Alaska and Greenland. A small number of JIs are sold in USA and Mexico.
Elsewhere
Other JIs elsewhere were probably sold as grey imports.
[edit] JI Extreme ad campaign
The JI Extreme has a successful advert campaign made by the Chaser.[2]
[edit] Casualities
JIs had major casualties and here are the popular ones.
- In July 10, 1996, a couple from Romania travelled in a JI Fat Boy on holidays in Bulgaria. They saw some smoke coming from the dashboard and the car ceased to move. The smoke built up forcing the couple to step out of the car. Seconds later, the Fat Boy erupted in flames and the whole car burnt up under the eyes of bulgarian locals. This event is popular in the news all over the world. It's also the most signifficant breakdown for a JI.
- In December 2, 1996, an estonian farmer drove a JI Fat Boy down a cold, frosty countryside. He turned the heater on but it didn't work for any reason. So he banged on the dashboard and turned on the heater and tried again and suddenly, the heater blasted, the ignited gas erupted from the vents and then, Carbon Monoxide filled up and the driver coughed and got exhausted so he had to pull over as he turned off the road, went off the road and landed into a ditch. The driver, choked with Carbon Monoxide, immediately took off his seat belt and opened the door and got out. Later, the car blew smoke but it got extinguised and the car's towed away. The driver was treated for Carbon Monoxide poisoning and promised not to buy another JI again.
- In January 16, 1997, one JI Little Man was parked in a local carpark in Zaire. 15 minutes later, the car went up on fire. At 3 o clock, the owner of the Little Man found that her car went on fire. It was later extinguished by the fire brigade and the car was a complete write off.
- In January 17, 1997, a french driver had a JI Little Man that is under powered and when it drove on the French Alps, it can't go uphill and it had to be in second gear to maintain it's speed. In this event, the Little Man went awfully slow that one driver in a Renault Twingo overtook the car. One other owner found his car difficult to accelerate and had a traffic of cars trailing him. One by one, they overtook and tooted their horns and the driver got harrassed. He then refused to drive his JI.
- In September 5 2007, it's one day to the Melbourne Cup Day and The Veronicas were chaufferred along in a grey imported JI Wisdom. By the time they passed the Victoria-New South Wales border, something went wrong. The car made clunking noises, went rough and the car decelerated and gradually came to a stop. The car then stopped working and blew smoke into the cabin. The chauffer got out of the car to have a look. Then, the girls started coughing as the smoke filled up and Jessica reached for the winder switch but nothing happened. She had to open the door to get out and her twin sister Lisa managed to get out but she's in a worser state. Both had exhaustion and by the time the chauffer opened up the bonnet and found that the smoke came from the transmission, he then starts coughing and ended up poisoned by the smoke. One driver pulled up to see what's gone wrong and he offered the chauffer and the girls a ride to Melbourne. The chauffer was in a bad condition and he was left in hospital to recover. The Veronicas meanwhile were sent to the GP for a check up and the doctor confirmed that they got a bit of poisoning from smoke inhalation. After a couple of days later, they had another check up to see how they're going.
The forensic scientists found that the automatic transmission of the Wisdom was blown, releasing burnt up fluids into the cabin. The engine appeared to be okay. The car was then de-registred and crushed.
- One teenage girl in the United Kingdom, on her probationary license purchased a JI Little Man priced £88. She then suffered problems with her car and she handed back the Little Man. She then moved to a Vauxhall Astra and she's loving it.
So far, no motorists have been killed.
[edit] Cessations
In some regions of the world, JIs had to be destroyed.
- One JI Wisdom in Australia had been crushed in Mansfield, Victoria. It's the car The Veronicas have travelled in to get to the Melbourne Cup that nearly claimed their lives.
- In 2002, in the United Kingdom, all JI owners drove their cars to London and then, hand them over to get their cars crushed.
- Motoring organisations in Germany, Austria, France and Italy called for all JIs and they sent them to get crushed.
- In America, all problem JIs were scrapped and only a few still exist.
- Some bales of crushed JIs were shipped to Afghanistan for their dissatisfaction.
[edit] Quotes
“Why should you ever buy one of those cars that are a fiery pain in the arse?!”
~ James May, TV Presenter, Journalist
“They're cars of mass destruction! Particularly the Fat Boy.”
~ Jeremy Clarkson, TV Presenter, Journalist, Motoring Critic
“It's chaos on wheels and the chances are, it could happen at any time.”
~ Jessica Louise Origliasso, The Veronicas (Referring to the JI Wisdom in which they are travelling in)
“These cars are cataclysm!”
~ Car and Driver
“Such poor commitment not only damages the reputation of automotive history, but it also costs JI
it's existence. A great deal of it!”
~ Alistair Darling, British Transport Minister
“They're just like timing bombs on wheels.”
~ Adam Savage, Mythbusters
