About China's Coolest Cars
In the spring of 2014, I visited a Mercedes-Benz AMG Performance Center in Shanghai. The place was loaded with the fastest AMG cars, including a C63 AMG Edition 507, a C63 Coupe AMG Edition 507, an S63L AMG 4Matic, and a G63 AMG.
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This is a Mercedes-AMG G63 Edition 1, seen in the Chinese capital Beijing in the summer of 2019. The big Benz appeared to be brand new and looked imposing under the green trees near the Lido Hotel.
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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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A super pretty W220 Mercedes-Benz S55 AMG, as seen on a car market in Beijing. The big Mercedes was in good shape, painted in Polar White, and fitted with the original AMG five-spoke alloy wheels.
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A Mercedes-Benz 220E sedan, seen on a car market in west Beijing in the great summer of 2023. The old E was painted in a beige shade, and it looked remarkably well for its age, with a smooth body, shiny chrome, no rust or large busts, and most of its original wheel covers.
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A beautiful Mercedes-Benz C-Class sedan, seen in Beijing in May 2014. The compact German limousine was in great shape, black with darkened windows, and sitting on the original alloy wheels. Sadly, the Mercedes hood ornament was missing. But I didn’t care, because this old Benz had the oldest black license plate I had ever seen:
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A cool Mercedes-Benz SLK 230, seen in central Beijing in 2012, not far from where I lived at the time. The good Mercedes was in fine shape. It was painted banana yellow, a great color for the SLK.
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A Mercedes-Benz SL600, seen in 2013 in front of a hotel slash apartment complex in central Beijing. The good SL600 was in perfect shape, painted in silver with slightly darkened windows, original five-spoke alloys, and black license plates. On the right an Mercedes-Benz S600 sedan.
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A W108 Mercedes-Benz 280SE 3.5, seen in a small car shop in Beijing in December 2017. These old Mercedes sedans are ultra rare in China so seeing one is always an earthshaking event.
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A Mercedes-Benz C-class sedan, seen at the now-gone Worker’s Stadium in Beijing in 2012. The Benz was a wrapped in a very nice orange wrap with a black racing stripes. It was further sexed up with darkened windows and a unique 京N·3UU33 license plate.
