About China's Coolest Cars
This little wine red beauty is a Volkswagen Citi Golf. The great VW was in good shape. Sure is was dusty, but was is not in the capital? The Volkswagen badge up front was made of metal and thus a bit rusty.
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The China-made Ford S-Max was a slow seller and is therefore a rather rare sight on the road. But here we got one! A silver example that seemed somewhat abandoned, looking very dusty and with a deflated rear tire.
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A white Hyundai Sonata sedan on the streets of Beijing, right after a nasty dust storm, covered in dirt from the endless steppes of Inner Mongolia and Mongolia. Happily, it was in a very good shape.
And it isn’t just any other Sonata. This is the Sonata GLS V6 Gold, the top-trim level Sonata made by the Beijing-Hyundai joint venture. It had a special grille with horizontal bars and it was equipped with loads of luxury.
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Two pretty French sedans at sunset in the mountains to the north of Beijing. To the left a gray Guangzhou-Peugeot 505 SX2 with very early 京·A license plates and classy darkened windows. The 505 was made in China from 1990 until 1997, powered by a 105 hp 2.0 liter petrol engine.
On the left a far more modern Dongfeng-PSA Peugeot 307 sedan, painted in a dark green shade. The 307 sedan was made here from 2002 until 2014, a very long run that saw various facelifts and new variants. Power come from 108 hp 1.6 and 138 hp 2.0 engines.
The Peugeot 505 has sadly largely disappeared from the roads in China. But happily the 307 sedan is still all over the place, as it was a very popular car.
I have always been, and I will always be, a big fan of the Changan-Suzuki Alto. It is one of the coolest cars ever made in China. In fact, when I arrived in China in 2003 I seriously considered buying one but it was just a tad too small for my needs.
A gray Peugeot 505 SX, seen in central Beijing. The pretty French sedan was in a pretty good shape and entirely original. Even the antenna seemed the real thing!
Here we have a Foton View Surf, seen in Beijing on a sunny day. The Foton View was a series of SUVs based on a pickup truck chassis. The Surf was the top-end variant of the View.
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Here we have a beautiful black Honda Accord 2.0 EXi HG7200. The sixth generation Honda Accord was the first generation Accord that was made in China. Production started in 1999 at Guangzhou-Honda.
This little blue wonder is the ORA iQ, an electric car for China with an interesting design. Note especially the fake air intakes on each side of the front, I guess those don’t help the aerodynamics very much.
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This is the NIO ES6 Premier Edition, a mid-sized electric SUV. It was the second car of the NIO brand, launched after the larger ES8 and the sportier EC6. The NIO ES6 debuted in China in 2019 and so far there are no real plans for export.
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