About China's Coolest Cars
And that day back in 2016 I was pleasantly surprised to find brand new radio-cassette players on the shelves of a Jingkelong supermarket in Beijing. They had two Panda-branded models. Panda is a famous Chinese electronics brand, making everything from robots to consumer electronics , including several cassette and CD players.
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I was very happy to find this Dongfeng Yueda Kia Pride hatchback in China. The hatchback is much rarer than the sedan. The Pride was in a fine general shape but it was seemingly abandoned, with the license plates taken off.
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A very nice Besturn B30 sedan, seen in Beijing in 2016. The good Besturn was painted in white and fitted with factory-standard sporty five spoke wheels. Besturn was a brand under First Auto Works (FAW). In 2018 the English name changed to Bestune but the Chinese name remained the same (奔腾, Benteng).
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A Chrysler PT Cruiser, seen in east Beijing in the early spring of 2016. The PT Cruiser is always an odd car too process. It is oddly ugly on one side, and oddly cool on the other.
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A rare Citroen c-Quatre 20 Years Edition, seen in Beijing in 2016. The special Frenchman was in a great shape, looking very classy. The Citroen c-Quatre was a compact car made in sedan and hatchback form from 2008 until 2016.
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Earlier on, I posted about the Chery Cowin 2, the latest variant of the Seat Toledo-based Chery. Today, we have a much rarer version of the ‘Chery Seat’: the Chery Fengyun SQR7160 with a still mysterious badge on the back.
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One of the oddest car ever made by the FAW-Volkswagen joint venture was the Bora-Golf, seen here in a very pretty shade of red in Beijing in 2011. It was actually called the Volkswagen Bora HS and based on the Mk4 Volkswagen Golf, it was made from 2006 until 2009. The HS had the front and rear lights of the facelifted first generation China-made Bora.
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A pretty Peugeot 407 Coupe 3.0, seen near a Peugeot dealer on a car market in Beijing. The Peug’ was in a fine shape, painted in a stylish shade of black with a light brown interior. It was a but dusty, but so is every car in Beijing.
Design of the 407 series was odd, mostly due to the enormous front overhang. This was so for the sedan and the wagon, but on the Coupe it looked even longer optically, and that was mainly caused by the three faux air-vents on the front-front fender, which only emphasized the giganticism of the overhang situation.
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A very early BYD F3 GLX-i sedan, seen in Beijing in 2017. The F3 was in a great shape, painted in a silver gray shade with the original BYD logo on the grille. License plate is from Shandong Province.
Here we have a very pretty Yunque GHK7071A Sports-4, seen in front of the Workers’ Stadium in Beijing in 2007. To see any Yunque is special, but one in red and fitted with the optional factory body kit was truly amazing. It made my month.
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