Dinka (Japanese: ディンカ, Dinka) is a Japanese vehicle manufacturer in the HD Universe.
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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 African tribe in South Sudan; however, it actually parodies Japanese automaker Honda (though the Jester Classic and the Jester RR have no resemblance to Honda cars and are instead based on Toyota vehicles). 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 "Dinky Toys", 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.
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- "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 Rendaku).
- 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 Lexus, as "L" does not exist in native Japanese pronunciation. In this perspective, Dinka would not be an entirely unrealistic name for a Japanese manufacturer.
