BAW Flagship

Here we have a very fine vehicle from Beijing Auto Works (BAW). It is called ‘Flagship’, a fully amphibious vehicle based on the BJ2032S 4×4. The Flagship was developed in the late ’90’s and originally intended for the Chinese army but they didn’t really want it, they bought a few hundred but found it far too slow. Nowadays BAW sells the Flagship to everybody who wants it, most buyers are tourist resorts and watersport-holiday-companies. Kinda sad for such a brute piece of old-school Chinese hard-core machinery. It is indeed easy to imagine some big guns on the bonnet.

The Chinese name of the Flagship is Shuiluliangqi, which simply means ‘Amphibious vehicle’. Such easy names do fine in China but not in the bigger world, BAW therefore decided to use the rather cool sounding ‘Flagship’ as the vehicle’s English name.

The Flagship also has an internal-factory name, it is BJ5021XZHE. Let me repeat that: BJ5021XZHE. Techspec: size: 4760x1800x1905, wheelbase is 2350, weight is 1850 kg. Engine: BJ493ZQ 4-cylinder with 68kw. It can carry 5 people.

BAW also sells a variant with a hard-top and a shovel up front, it is used to get on high beaches more easy, basically works as a ramp.

Info added by Chip Wilson on 21st October 2026 Info taken from https://carnewschina.com/2011/12/13/introducing-the-mighty-baw-flagship-from-china