Dinka

Dinka (Japanese: ディンカ, Dinka) is a Japanese automobile and motorbike manufacturer in the HD Universe.

Description
Dinka manufacture a variety of compact cars, sports cars and family cars, as well as streetfighters, dirt bikes and sports bikes. They also manufacture the Marquis, a sailing yacht. It and Weeny's name are synonymous with the word 'small', likely a reference to the size of vehicles they manufacture.

Dinka is the name of an in South Sudan, however it actually parodies Japanese automaker  (though the Jester Classic and the Jester RR have no resemblance to Honda cars and is instead based on a  vehicle). Components of Dinka's logo are reminiscent of the letter H in Honda's logo, although Dinka's logo consists of six brackets (both "]" and "["). Dinka is a play on "dink", a racial slur for Asians, especially the Vietnamese. Dinka is also a play on British die-cast toy car maker "", which was later used to describe any cheaply constructed small car, as Honda and other Japanese automakers initially produced low-quality econobox cars for export to the North American market in the 1970s, before moving to more upmarket vehicles.

Trivia

 * "Dinka" is an implausible Japanese name as the syllable "di" does not exist in native Japanese words (outside of Nihon-shiki form of romanization of ヂ, which is pronounced "ji" and does not occur in words outside of the phenomenon of ).
 * That said, it should be noted that it is highly popular for a Japanese company/product to use a Western-style name (mostly English and other European languages), a good example being as "L" does not exist in native Japanese pronunciation. In this perspective, Dinka would not be an entirely unrealistic name for a Japanese manufacturer.

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