About China's Coolest Cars
The Chinese EV market is booming, with new brands launching every day. But not all survive, competition is fierce, prices are down, and consumers can choose between trillions of cars and brands. One brand that didn’t make it was SiTech. I met a white SiTech DEV1 in Beijing.
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A dark black Toyota Prius (XW20), seen in the beautiful summer of 2024 in the Chinese capital Beijing. The good Prius was in fine shape, painted in metallic black, and fitted with the original six-spoke alloy wheels.
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Back in the spring of 2010, I went to the great Chinese megacity of Chongqing for work. When I had time off, I went out to check cars. Not far from the banks of the Yangtze River, I bumped into a flock of Chinese police cars. The vehicles were unattended, just how I liked it, so I had a good look around.
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A beautiful Geely Meirenbao sporty car in central Beijing in the late summer of 2012. At the time, the Meirenbao was still a common sight in the Chinese capital. It was painted bright red and fitted with big ‘and shiny after-market alloy wheels.
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In 2014, I visited two second-hand supercar shops along Wuzhong Road in Shanghai. This road is home to many car-related businesses, and one of the shops I visited is still around today. The shops sold all sorts of very expensive supercars.
The first car that I saw was an open-top Lamborghini. It looked like a Murcielago SV from the outside, but there was a problem: Lamborghini only made the SV coupe, they never made an SV Roadster.Â
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Earlier, I wrote a story about the launch of the Spyker supercar brand in China in 2004. This story is about Spyker in 2008, at the Beijing Auto Show. I was kindly invited to walk around the booth to look at these beautiful machines that mixed speed with art.
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A massive Buick Roadmaster sedan, as seen on a car market in the far east of the Chinese capital Beijing. The Roadmaster was in poor shape, with rust and busts and missing parts, but it wasn’t beyond restoration.
Continue reading “Buick Roadmaster Is A Classic American Sedan In China”
A pretty Nissan 350Z sports car, as seen in the Sanlitun embassy district in east Beijing in 2013. The good Nissan was in great shape, painted in a fiery red color which Nissan called Redline.
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This interesting machine is a Haval M2, as seen early in the morning at a car market in Beijing. The M2 was in fine shape and painted in a color called Titanium White. The chrome was shiny as new and the alloys are original.
Continue reading “Haval M2 Is A Weird Chinese Mix Of A Hatchback And An SUV”
This is a Karry Yousheng 2 minivan, seen at a parking lot in the west of the Chinese capital Beijing. The minivan was sexed-up to the max, with a body kit, wrapped in a shiny pink wrap, with darkened windows, a cargo box on the roof, and BBS-style alloy wheels.
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