About China's Coolest Cars
It is always hard to know how to look at the SsangYong Actyon; is it just plain ugly, or refreshingly different? I haven’t figured that out yet so for now I prefer to call it interesting. It sure is, from every side. The front lights give it an angry look, flanking a forward leaning grille. I found this very clean example in Beijing in 2016, looking almost as new.
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A pretty Hafei Songhuajiang minivan, seen up in the mountains to the north of Beijing on an early spring day in 2010. The good Songhuajiang was painted in taxi-red and fitted with very early blue 京A·90085 license plates.
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Earlier on, I posted about the Chery Cowin 2, the latest variant of the Seat Toledo-based Chery. Today, we have a much rarer version of the ‘Chery Seat’: the Chery Fengyun SQR7160 with a still mysterious badge on the back.
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And that day I went to the Beijing Tap Water Museum in east Beijing. Besides a lot of water pipes and other water supply equipment, I also found a triplet of very pretty Beijing-Jeep Cherokee XJ’s. These are two early examples, with fog lights on the bumper, and factory mud flaps, wheels, and roof rack. The colors are original too. The car on the left has a very old blue 京A license plate, indicating it was one of the very first privately registered cars in the capital.
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A white BMW M3 coupe, seen on cold spring day in Beijing, capital of China. The speedy Bimmer was painted in white and fitted with dark matte black alloys. But best of all was the matching license plate: 京N·M3W79.
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The Military Museum has always been my favorite museum in Beijing, especially in its old original somewhat unruly shape. I first visited the museum in 1997 and came back dozens of times since then. The museum is located in massive Communist-style building located in the center of town. These photos are from a visit in 2009, showing various military vehicles. On the first photo a Dongfeng EQ2050 Mengshi (Warrior), a massive 4×4 derived from the American Humvee.
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One of the oddest car ever made by the FAW-Volkswagen joint venture was the Bora-Golf, seen here in a very pretty shade of red in Beijing in 2011. It was actually called the Volkswagen Bora HS and based on the Mk4 Volkswagen Golf, it was made from 2006 until 2009. The HS had the front and rear lights of the facelifted first generation China-made Bora.
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A massive Toyota Sequoia SUV, seen on a dusty day in Beijing. The Sequoia was modified quite a lot, with raised suspension, huge all terrain tires, side steps, and a roof rack with four search lights.
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A Shuanghuan Noble hatchback, seen parked on the road in Beijing in 2009. The Noble was painted in yellow with an orange-black interior, and fitted with Mercedes-Benz logo’s on nose and wheels.
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A pretty Peugeot 407 Coupe 3.0, seen near a Peugeot dealer on a car market in Beijing. The Peug’ was in a fine shape, painted in a stylish shade of black with a light brown interior. It was a but dusty, but so is every car in Beijing.
Design of the 407 series was odd, mostly due to the enormous front overhang. This was so for the sedan and the wagon, but on the Coupe it looked even longer optically, and that was mainly caused by the three faux air-vents on the front-front fender, which only emphasized the giganticism of the overhang situation.
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