About China's Coolest Cars
A Renault Scenic RX4, seen at a car market in east Beijing in 2014. The good RX4 was a bit dusty but otherwise in fine shape. The Renault Scenic RX4 was a 4×4 off-road version of the first-generation Scenic MPV.
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Here we have a Li L8, seen in the Chinese capital Beijing. The L8 is the second-largest Li SUV and it is an impressive machine. It looks luxurious, high-tech, and huge. Even so, it is pretty slippery with a drag coefficient of only 0.297 Cd. Li likes factual color names, not the poetic stuff that other car makers do. The L8 that I saw is painted in a color simply called ‘Gold’.
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A beautiful BMW 330 Ci, as seen on a car market in the west of the Chinese capital Beijing. The speedy Bimmer was a bit dusty but otherwise in great shape, painted in Titanium Silver and still rolling on the original alloy wheels.
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A sinister Nissan Cedric (Y33), as seen on a car repair market in east Beijing. The big Japanese sedan looked great, painted black with a body kit, darkened window, drift tires and wheels, and black license plates.
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A massive Norinco VP11 mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicle, as seen on a police equipment show in Beijing in 2012. The huge machine was parked in a tiny booth in the exhibition hall, there was barely enough space to walk around it.
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Check out this Volkswagen Touareg 3.0 TDI in central Beijing in 2014. The big SUV has a wild body kit and green headlight lenses. It also has darkened windows, side steps, and strangely wide wheels.
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Back in the spring of 2010, I went to the great Chinese megacity of Chongqing for work. When I had time off, I went out to check cars. Not far from the banks of the Yangtze River, I bumped into a flock of Chinese police cars. The vehicles were unattended, just how I liked it, so I had a good look around.
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This interesting machine is a Haval M2, as seen early in the morning at a car market in Beijing. The M2 was in fine shape and painted in a color called Titanium White. The chrome was shiny as new and the alloys are original.
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This is a Karry Yousheng 2 minivan, seen at a parking lot in the west of the Chinese capital Beijing. The minivan was sexed-up to the max, with a body kit, wrapped in a shiny pink wrap, with darkened windows, a cargo box on the roof, and BBS-style alloy wheels.
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A super pretty W220 Mercedes-Benz S55 AMG, as seen on a car market in Beijing. The big Mercedes was in good shape, painted in Polar White, and fitted with the original AMG five-spoke alloy wheels.
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