About China's Coolest Cars
This is a first-generation Buick Park Avenue sedan, seen in the late summer of 2013 in the far east of the Chinese capital Beijing. The beautiful Buick was parked in the parking lot of a popular local restaurant and was still used as a daily driver. It was a little dusty, but at that time, everything was.
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Here we have an Opel Omega sedan, seen in 2013 in the Lido area in Beijing. The good Omega was in reasonable shape, painted in wine red with black mirrors, and fitted with sporty non-original multispoke wheels. There was some light damage at the front bumper, but nothing serious.
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Here we have an extremely beautiful W210 Mercedes-Benz E-Class sedan, seen in June 2016 at the parking lot of a shopping mall in the far east of Beijing. The Mercedes has diplomatic license plates and belongs to the Embassy of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
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Here we have a Haima 7X seen on the roads of the Chinese capital Beijing in the great summer of 2023. The good Haima was painted in a color called Beach White, with a crazy grille and sporty five-spoke alloy wheels. The owner put a sun reflector behind the windshield, and rightly so, as the hot sun was pounding on the MPV.
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This is a Toyota Previa MPV, or minivan, seen on a sunny day in the Chinese capital Beijing. The Previa was in good general shape, painted silver with black window frames, with the original five-spoke wheels, and with black 京A license plates. Continue reading “Toyota Previa MPV With Black License Plates In China”
This is a Qoros 3 sedan in the south of the Chinese capital, Beijing. The old 3 was in great shape, painted white, and had the original multispoke wheels. Qoros was a Chinese car brand, owned by Qoros Auto Corporation, a joint venture between Chery Automobile and Israel’s state-investment fund Kenong Holdings. Continue reading “Qoros 3 Was A Modern Chinese-Israeli-German Sedan”
This one is amazing: a first-generation Audi TT Roadster, seen in Beijing in… the summer of 2024! The TT was already ultra rare in China when new, but to see such a perfect example today is just mindblowing. Continue reading “First Generation Audi TT Roadster Is An Ultra Rare German Sports Car In China”
That was unexpected! On an almost abandoned car market in south Beijing, I found a Citroen C6 sedan, standing outside, unattended, painted in dark black and still with the original multispoke alloy wheels.
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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.
