About China's Coolest Cars
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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Welcome to Black License Plate Mania in Beijing Part 11 (Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10), where we look at cars with black license plates in the Chinese capital. In the first photo a Ford Maverick SUV with 京A·29246.
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That’s a Zhongxing Admiral, a typical Chinese SUV of the early 2000s. It was painted in a vague shade of gray, with large bumpers, side bars, and shiny mirrors. It was still in use and it looked great for its years.
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A gold-colored BYD Flyer, seen in China in 2016. The flyer was in fine shape, the paint was still all right, and the original BYD logo was on the grille. The sporty twin-five-spoke alloy wheels were standard. Before BYD became the world’s largest NEV maker, it didn’t make cars at all. Until 2003, BYD was just a battery maker.
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This orange beauty is an Iveco Yuhua NJK5046XGC5 engineering vehicle, as seen at a second-hand car shop in east Beijing, where it stood out for several reasons: it was not a car, it was painted in a shiny shade of orange, and it looked brilliantly cool.
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Welcome to Black License Plate Mania in Beijing Part 10 (Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9), where we look at cars with black license plates in the Chinese capital. In the first photo a cool Shanghai-Volkswagen Santana with 京A·40934.
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