About China's Coolest Cars
This is a Changan Lumin, seen on the parking lot of a Changan dealer in south Beijing. The Lumin is an electric minicar launched in 2022. The Lumin has a cool ‘cute’ rounded design with large lights, white aero wheels, black pillars, and pop-out door handles.
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Many folks say electric cars are like washing machines on wheels. Most of the time, that is nonsense. But not with Xiaomi. This Chinese company is, in fact, proud of being a maker of all kinds of consumer electronics, including washers and electric cars. To check it all out, I went to a Xiaomi experience store in the basement of a large shopping mall in Beijing.
On a sunny day in summer, I went to a Hyptec experience store in the Hopson One shopping mall in central Beijing. The store had 3 cars on display: the Hyptec HT SUV, the Hyptech GT sedan, and the manic Hyptec SSR supercar. Let’s have a look.
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This bizarre machine is the Li MEGA, a giant MPV with a wild and polarizing design. Even the color names are different than elsewhere. The one that I saw is painted in Elephant Gray. The other colors are Panda White, Gray, and Silver. Two colors with a special name, and two colors without. What to make of that? Well, what to make of of the Mega?
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This little wonder is a Venucia R30, a small five-door hatchback sold only in China. I met this white example in Beijing, it looked great, painted in white and with five ‘spoke’ wheel covers. The Venucia R30 was based on the Nissan March.
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This is the Europe Famous Car, a brilliant radio-controlled car with a Targa roof and two figurines inside. It was the first scale model that I bought in China after I moved there in 2003. I still have it and it still works.
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This is a Changhe Beidouxing II mini MPV, seen on a car modification market in Beijing, parked next to a pink Tank 300. The Beidouxing was in great shape, painted in white, and standing on steel wheels.
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Here we have a Dongfeng eπ 007 litback sedan, seen in southwest Beijing in the summer. It was a brand-new car with a temporary license plate behind the windscreen. The color is called Sunny Gold (向阳金), but it looks more like silver to me.
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Here we have a Chery Tiggo SUV, an early one, seen in the cold winter of 2019 in the south of the Chinese capital Beijing, parked near a small canal that runs to the Temple of Heaven. The Tiggo looked heavenly indeed, it was in perfect shape, with flawless paint, factory stickers, and with the original seven-spoke alloy wheels.
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Here we have a Dongfeng eπ 008 SUV, seen in Beijing earlier this summer. It was a brand-new car with a temporary license plate behind the windscreen. The pretty white color is called Morning White.
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