About China's Coolest Cars
This is a Changan UNI-K iDD, as seen in the Chinese capital Beijing in the summer of 2023. The big SUV looked brand new, painted in an interesting green-gray shade with light gray alloy wheels.
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A Toyota Corolla DX sedan, seen in 2014 in the Chinese capital Beijing. The Japanese sedan appeared to be abandoned. The license plates were gone, and the poor car was covered in a thick layer of dust. But overall, it was in fine shape, painted white with the original gray wheel covers.
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A Voyah Dreamer, seen in the rain in Beijing in the summer of 2023. The Voyah Dreamer is a large Chinese MPV with an advanced EREV powertrain. The Dreamer looked great in white, with darkened windows and matte gray alloy wheels.
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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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This is the HiPhi X, probably one of the coolest Chinese electric cars ever produced. I saw it in the rain in Beijing in the summer of 2024, and I couldn’t stop looking at it. What a machine! The bright orange color is called ‘Carnelian Orange’.
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A Jaguar F-Type convertible, as seen in the great Chinese city of Shenzhen in 2014. The British sports car was brand new and looked brilliant in this fiery red color, which Jaguar called ‘Salsa Red’.
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A Volvo S90 3.0 sedan, as seen in central Beijing in the winter of 2016. The big Volvo was in reasonable shape. It was dark blue, a classy color for any Volvo, with slightly tinted windows and the original alloy wheels.
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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 Honda Legend sedan, as seen in the far east of Beijing in 2016. The good Honda was in great shape. It was painted black like almost every Legend I have ever seen, with tinted windows and with the original wheel covers.
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This is a rare DS 5LS 60th Anniversary Limited Edition, seen in Beijing in 2017. It was a great looker, painted in Champagne Gold with darkened windows and black window frames. The DS 5LS was a China-only compact executive sedan, manufactured from 2014 to 2019 by the Changan-PSA joint venture.
