About China's Coolest Cars
An arty farty Volvo C30, seen in front of Volvo shop in Sanlitun embassy district in 2011. The good, or perhaps poor, Volvo was wrapped in a very bright and colorful wrap, looking like a real art car. The bonnet is very busy with a sea and a sun and a sky.
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A Mitsubishi 3000GT sporty car, seen in the great city of Xiamen in Fujian Province by Pinut187 in 2013, thank you for the pictures! The 3000GT was very dirty and dusty but in a good general shape. All it needed was some love and a good cleanup.
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Welcome to Black License Plate Mania In Beijing Part 6 (Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5), where we look at cars with black license plates in the Chinese capital. On the first picture a Chevrolet Corsica with 京A·08917.
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A beautiful first generation Audi A8 sedan, seen in Beijing in the early spring of 2018. The good old Audi was in a fine shape, painted in black and fitted with alloys wheels from the second generation Audi A8. The 京N·733A8 license plate makes for a nice match.
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A Beijing Auto Beijing BJ20 Off-Road Edition, seen in Beijing in 2018. The vehicle looked brand new and was perfectly clean inside and out. The Beijing Auto BJ20 was conceived in a night of madness and debuted in standard form in 2016, featuring a polarizing design that didn’t look like anything else in the Beijing Auto lineup.
A pretty Tianma Fengchi KZ6490E SUV, seen in the great city of Guangzhou in Guangdong Province in 2015. It is a typical old-school Chinese SUV; simple and cheap, slow and barely reliable, but somehow kinda cool.
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A double Smart ForTwo Jeremy Scott Edition, seen at the Hong Kong Plaza shopping mall in Shanghai in December 2015 by Pinut187, thank you for the pictures! The Smart ForTwo Jeremy Scott Edition is a very rare car, only ten were ever made and five came to China. Back then it was sold for a massive 388.000 yuan.
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A Rolls-Royce Cullinan, seen in Beijing in 2021 by Joachim, thank you for the photo! The gigantic Roller is painted in an interesting bespoke color scheme with a turquoise blue body and the matte gray bonnet and roof. The windows are darkened and it stands on the standard 5-twin spoke wheels.
The Cullinan is a boat of car with suicide doors, 5.3 meters long and weighing a massive 2.7 ton. Price is steep too, starting at 6.1 million yuan. Happily, it has lots of power to move its weight. Engine is a 6.7 liter twin-turbocharged V12 engine with an output of 563 hp and 850 Nm.
The engine is mated to an 8-speed automatic transmission sending horses to all four wheels. Top speed is limited to 250 kilometers per hour and 0-100 is gone in 5.2 seconds. It takes a but of gasoline though, as the Cullinan drinks 14.9 liters per 100 kilometer, no matter which color is has.
A Tesla Model S, seen at a Tesla charging station in Beijing in January 2019 by Lao Wei, thank you for the picture! The Model S was wrapped in a matte pink rosé wrap, and further dressed up with darkened rear windows, dark headlight visors, and dark black wheels. Inside sits a female with a yellow cap on her head, it seems she is looking at her phone.
The wrap seems high quality and it is neatly wrapped around the whole car, leaving only the window frames and the door handles. Like in the rest of the world, Tesla only offers a very limited number of colors for their cars in China. Wraps are cheap so many Tesla’s get the wrapping treatment.
Current price of the Tesla Model S in 2019 started at 722.800 yuan, which was, and still is, very steep. The Model S never really took off in China but the X became quite popular. But Tesla sales really took off with the Tesla Model 3, and later on with the China-made Model 3.
A tank thing, seen in Hebei Province to the east of Beijing in the winter of 2019. Contraptions like these are sometimes used by restaurants to ‘fire’ fireworks during wedding ceremonies and other miserable celebrations.
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