About China's Coolest Cars
An almost-perfect Ford Tempo sedan, seen at a messy parking lot near a car market in Beijing in 2012. The antenna was up so the car was all right. It was painted white, with darkened windows and with the original wheel covers.
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A Ford Mondeo sedan, seen at a car market in east Beijing on a hot summer day. The Mondeo is normally a rather mundane sedan but this one was not. It was wrapped in a shiny blue wrap and sexed up even further with darkened windows, wide tires, and 5-spoke alloy wheels.
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This is a Ford Evos, a China-only crossover coupe with a fastback body. The Evos is a sharp-looking car, but a bit of an odd one, mixing elements of a sedan, a hatchback, and a station wagon.
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A pretty Ford Probe, as seen in Beijing in 2012. It was painted in a fiery shade of red with darkened windows and white alloy wheels. The black license plates are from Tianjin Municipality.
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Checking out a Ford Mondeo Ghia sedan, seen in the far east of Beijing in the summer of 2018. The Ford was parked totally illegally on the pavement on the edge of a small public garden in a residential area.
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A nice Ford E150 conversion van, seen in China’s Hebei Province in late December 2019, not far from where I found an abandoned Mercedes-Benz collection.
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On that windy day the stars aligned so I could find a car of a special kind. That car was a Ford Windstar, seen in the suburbs of Beijing on November 30, 2017. The Windstar seemed abandoned and was covered in a thick layer of winter’s dust.
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A Ford Mustang Boss 302, seen in 2015 near the Goldenport race track in Beijing. Note the Shelby GT500 in the background, I’ll get back to that one later on. The froggy green paint job was a factory color, looking very speeding with black racing stripes, darkened windows, and matte gray alloy wheels.
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A Ford Focus sedan, seen on south central Beijing in February 2013. The good Focus was severely sexed up, changing the otherwise rather boring sedan in a true babe magnet.
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A nicely modified Ford Focus, seen in 2011 in the great city of Nanjing in Jiangsu Province in China. The Focus had a completely new front bumper, very wide and sporty, white wheels, darkened windows, and lots of racy decals.
