About China's Coolest Cars
This is a Beijing Auto D280 sedan, as seen in Beijing in 2014. It was painted in a classy shade of black with darkened windows and gray alloy wheels. The license plates are from Shandong Province.
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This is an ArcFox Alpha S, a full-electric Chinese sedan-coupe, or you could call it an SUV-coupe. ArcFox calls it a sedan. I met this light-gray Alpha S in Beijing on a rainy day in the summer of 2023.
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A super rare Roewe Whale, seen in the south of the Chinese capital Beijing. As the name may imply, the design of the whale was inspired by the fishy whales. The front is a whale’s head: the grille is the baleen and the top lights are the eyes. The shape of the roof was inspired by a humpback whale.
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This is a Leap C11, a cool Chinese full-electric SUV, I saw it in Beijing this summer on a hot and rainy day. The C11 is an aerodynamic car with a drag coefficient of just 0.282 Cd. The more slippery the car is, the longer the range.
This is a Geely Galaxy L7, a new Chinese plug-in hybrid SUV. It looks like an EV, with a seemingly closed grille. But the engine gets air via the slats in the lower bumper. The L7 was brand new, still without license plates. On the left side, you can see a temporary license plate behind the windshield. These are common on newly purchased cars when the owner waits for the real plates to arrive.
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This is an XPeng G6, as seen in the Chinese capital Beijing in 2023. The good G6 looked brand new, painted in a bright orange shade that Xpeng calls “Melting Cloud Orange.” It surely melted all the gray and black cars parked around it.
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An MG7 Trophy, as seen in the Chinese capital Beijing in the summer of 2023. The big MG sedan looked great in dark green. I thought it might be British racing green for MG’s British roots. But nope, MG calls this color Emerald Green.
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Here we have a Toyota bZ3, seen after the rain in the summer of 2023 in Beijing. The bZ3 was as good as new and painted in a typical Toyota color: gray, with gray bumpers and gray wheels. Stay awake folks!
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A pretty Honda Accord sedan, as seen in the Chinese capital Beijing back in 2014. The Honda was in fine shape. It was painted white, a relatively rare color for an Accord of this age in China. Most of them are black, some are silver, and very few are white.
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A Buick GL8 Century Avenir MPV, as seen in the Chinese capital Beijing in 2024. The enormous people carrier looked great in white, with its extra large bling-bling grille and boomerang-shaped headlights.
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