About China's Coolest Cars
This is the 2025 Xpeng X9 Performance, seen in Beijing. The giant machine looks more like a spaceship than a car, especially in this pretty Nebula White color, combined with darkened windows and gray aero wheels.
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This is the Baojun Yep Plus, seen in the late afternoon in Beijing. The Yep Plus looked great in Azure Blue with a white roof and tinted windows. The boxy SUV packs 102 hp, and it has a 402-kilometer range.
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This is an Hoxid ID7, seen on a rainy day in the far south of Beijing, capital of China. The Hoxid ID7 is a three-wheeled low-speed electric vehicle (LSEV) with four doors and four seats, a somewhat unusual configuration.
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I love Chinese police cars. In the summer of 2018, I was riding around the far east of Beijing with my red Luyuan electric scooter. At one moment, I crossed a railway and found a yard filled with decommissioned police cars from the 1990s, including many classic Beijing Jeep Cherokees.
That made my day. Two elderly police men guarded the place; they were playing cards in the gray building in the background. They didn’t show much surprise about me showing up, and didn’t mind me walking around and taking photos. So, here we go:
This is an IM L6, a Chinese electric sports sedan with distinctive boomerang-shaped headlights. It has a lidar on the roof and a millimeter-wave radar under the license plate. I met the pretty sedan in the far south of the Chinese capotal Beijing.
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Here’s a Chery Fulwin A9L, a large aerodynamic sedan with a PHEV powertrain. I met it in front of a Chery dealer in southern Beijing. It is a great-looking car, featuring a lot of tech and power.
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Here’s an Aion Hyper HT, seen in China after a rainstorm. The Night Shadow Black SUV-coupe looked neat, with oversized headlights, aero wheels, and a lidar on the roof.
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Here’s a Wuling Mini EV 4-Door Version, parked next to a sports court in southern Beijing. The electric mini car was brand new and looked super cute & cool, painted in Sweet Coffee and fitted with “five-spoke” black and white wheel covers.
Continue reading “Wuling Mini EV 4-Door Version: 41 hp, 205-km range, yours for $6.450”
Here’s a Hyundai XG300, seen in 2016 at a makeshift parking lot near a restaurant mall in eastern Beijing. The Ebony Black sedan looked fantastic for its age, with lots of shiny chrome, slightly darkened windows, and fitted with the original factory alloy wheels.
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Here’s a BMW 325i Touring, seen on a car market in east Beijing. It looked absolutely fantastic, painted in Titanium Silver Metallic and fitted with 10-spoke alloy wheels. The BMW E46 Touring is a very rare car in China. The owner made a few changes, including a red air intake in the bumper and red air vents in the hood.
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