About China's Coolest Cars
This is a Beijing Weiwang 306 police van, seen in the Sanlitun embassy area in Beijing in December 2011. The van was brand new and looked very nice in police livery. It had a police light-siren unit on the roof but I didn’t see any additional lights on the bumpers.
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Here we have a very special vehicle. This pretty truck is a Beijing BJ130 fire truck, seen in the Sanlitun embassy area in Beijing in 2011. The truck is painted in fire-red with white-wall tires. To kill flames, it is fitted with a spray mechanism at the front, a water canon behind the cabin, and a large water tank.
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A Great Wall Hover SUV, seen on a car accessories market in Beijing in 2011. The good Hover was pretending to be a Toyota, with Toyota logo’s on the grille and on the back. We are not that easily fooled!
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A speedy Subaru BRZ sports car, seen on a second-hand car market in Beijing in 2018. The BRZ was in a perfect shape, and the Subaru blue color almost matched with the color of the Beijing license plate.
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A spicy-red Ferrari F430 Spider seen at a parking lot of a mall in the Dongzhimen area in Beijing in 2011. Customers of the nearby Spice Spirit restaurant could win a ride in the Ferrari if they won a lottery. The owner of the restaurant owned the car as well.
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A stately Bentley Arnage sedan, seen at a restaurant in the mountains to the north of the Chinese capital Beijing in 2011. The Arnage was painted in a pretty shade of dark green and loaded with chrome. The license plates, with a rare triple 3 sequence, are of Jiangsu province. That’s a driving distance of at least 1000 kilometers. Must have been quite a ride in that big Bentley.
The Bentley Arnage was officially sold in China from 2004 until 2009. The car on the photo is a 2005 Arnage R, powered by the massive 6.75 liter twin-turbocharged V8 engine, good for 450 hp and 875 Nm. Power went to the rear wheels via a six-speed automatic gearbox. Price in China was a sweet 4.98 million yuan. The Arnage never sold very well on the Chinese market and these early examples are particularly rare.
A beautiful Audi RS6 Avant, seen in Beijing in 2018. The speedy wagon was brand new and it looked brilliant in a dark purple shade with matte gray detailing and black wheels.
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This is a super rare Yunbao YB2030 Nissan Patrol, seen on a car market in Beijing in 2016. The Yunbao YB2030 is basically a locally end-assembled fourth-generation Nissan Patrol Y60.
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A Jinma ‘classic wedding car’, seen in 2016 by our good friend James in Sanya, the main beach city on sunny Hainan Island. The pretty Jinma was in a reasonable shape for its age, painted in white with shiny gold trim and a Chinese flag on a pole on the bumper.
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A Ferrari SF90 Stradale, seen in Suzhou City iby Friend of the Site Joachim, thank you for the picture! The Italian supercar was brand new and had just arrived on the back of a yellow flatbed truck. The Ferrari was a little too long, no surprise with a front overhang of a kilometer, and the delivery driver had to level down the ramp. Hope no one got hurt.
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