About China's Coolest Cars
A very pretty Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL, seen near the Agricultural Exhibition Center in Beijing, capital of China. The great Mercedes was in super shape and painted in white, a rather rare color for the S-Class in China.
Pink cars always look good. Proof: Check this pink Hyundai Coupe. Without pink, nobody would see it. Now we do. It is a wrap and the original color was white; note the areas around the door handle and mirror stalk.
The second generation Hyundai Coupe was made from 2002 until 2008, with facelifts in 2005 and 2007. Our pinkie is a pre-facelift example. The Coupe was sold in China from 2004 until 2007. It was available with a 140 hp 2.0 and with a 170 hp 2.7 V6.
They were quite popular and quite a few are still around today, most of them modified in one way or the other.
This is the Infiniti Q50 S, a sporty variant of the Q50 sedan for the Chinese market. It comes with a racy body kit, giant 19-inch wheels, darkened windows, darkened head light visors, and winglets in the bumper.
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A Volkswagen Santana 2000 in heavy rain in Beijing. Note the cool Xiali sedan in the background on the right.
This vehicle belongs to fire prevention and control (消防) department of the police, so it is a bit of both a police car and a fire brigade car. The white license plate are used by the police, People’s Armed Police (PAP), and by the armed forces.
I took this photo in 2010, when the old white license plates were still in use. WJ stands for wujing (武警), a collective abbreviation police and armed forces. 31 stands for Beijing.
The Santana 2000 was one of many Santana variants manufactured by the SAIC-Volkswagen joint venture in Shanghai. It was rather rare to see Shanghai-made cars in public service in Beijing, as the local government mostly bought locally-made cars, like Hyundai’s and Beijing’s and such.
In any way, with so much rain the fire fighters probably had an easy night!
Here we have a dark red Dodge Caliber, seen on the streets of east Beijing. The Caliber was dusty but otherwise in a very good shape.
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A very neat Mitsubishi Outlander police car in Beijing, capital of China. The first generation Outlander was manufactured by Beijing-Jeep. This odd arrangement dates from the days of Daimler-Chrysler, which also held a stake in Mitsubishi.
Chrysler had the long-running Beijing-Jeep joint venture in China, producing the Cherokee and Grand Cherokee. Daimler-Chrysler added the Chrysler 300C, the Chrysler Sebring, Mercedes-Benz E-Class, the Pajero Sport, and this Outlander to the line-up.
White license plates are used by police, paramilitary police, and the armed forces. The black character on the left is jing, short for Beijing (北京). The character on the right is another jing, short for Jingcha (警察), also see bonnet, and that means police.
A Lamborghini LP 560-4 with a LP 570-4 Superleggera front-bumper conversion body kit, seen in front of my favorite Pepper Lunch restaurant in Beijing, capital of China. The speedy Lamboo was painted in yellow and stood on matte gray wheels.
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A Rolls-Royce Ghost with an embassy license plate in Beijing. In China, the first three numbers on an embassy plate indicate the country.
In this case, 121 stands for the Kingdom of Cambodia. The Rolls-Royce likely belongs to Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni who, like his father before him, is known to spend a lot of his time in Beijing.
A wondrous white Volkswagen Sharan V6 MPV, seen in the east of Beijing, capital of China. The good Sharan was in a perfect shape and completely original, down to the wheels.
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A somewhat tired looking MG7, seen in the eastern suburbs of the Chinese capital Beijing. The good MG was painted in a very British shade of green, and fitted with shiny silver alloys.
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