A Suffolk Superior Court judge today denied a request from Hyundai-Rotem to block the T from buying new Orange and Red Line cars from a Chinese manufacturer.

Judge Mitchell Kaplan said nothing he saw convinced him the state did anything wrong in awarding a $566-million contract to CNR MA, a joint venture of two Chinese companies, to build 152 new Orange Line cars and 132 new Red Line cars. The cars are due to begin rolling out between 2018 and 2021.

[The state bid request] requires that a contract subject to its terms be awarded to the lowest responsible and eligible bidder, but CNR was the lowest bidder by a wide margin and the court has not seen anything in the record to suggest that as the largest manufacturer of rail cars in the world, CNR could not have met the responsible and eligible standards set out in the statute, if they had applied.

Hyundai-Rotem sought a preliminary injunction against the awarding of the contract in state court after a federal judge tossed a similar request in March.

In a statement, a T spokesman said:

The MBTA is pleased that the court affirmed the judgments of the MBTA and found absolutely no merit to Hyundai's arguments. The MBTA looks forward to advancing the process of procuring these critically important subway cars.

Hyundai-Rotem did win a T bid to build new commuter-rail coaches; those cars arrived in Massachusetts 2 1/2 years late.