About China's Coolest Cars
A super rare Roewe Whale, seen in the south of the Chinese capital Beijing. As the name may imply, the design of the whale was inspired by the fishy whales. The front is a whale’s head: the grille is the baleen and the top lights are the eyes. The shape of the roof was inspired by a humpback whale.
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An MG7 Trophy, as seen in the Chinese capital Beijing in the summer of 2023. The big MG sedan looked great in dark green. I thought it might be British racing green for MG’s British roots. But nope, MG calls this color Emerald Green.
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A Buick GL8 Century Avenir MPV, as seen in the Chinese capital Beijing in 2024. The enormous people carrier looked great in white, with its extra large bling-bling grille and boomerang-shaped headlights.
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Back in 2012, I visited a police equipment show in Beijing, my favorite kind of event, with lots of police cars on show.
Chinese automaker SAIC had a big booth, showing some of their best cars in police livery. First up a Roewe 750, looking very nice as a cop car. The Roewe 750 was based on the Rover 75. In 2005, SAIC bought the rights to the Rover 75 + engines from bankrupt MG Rover. However, they didn’t get the Rover name so they came up with Roewe. The brand still exists today. In 2012 you could still get a brand-new 750 with a 1.8 turbo or a 2.5 liter V6. Price started at 162.800 yuan. Production ended in 2016.
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A Roewe RX3 crossover SUV, seen in front of a Roewe dealer in Beijing in November 2017. The RX3 was brand new and painted in a very tasty shade of red. The heavily chromed grille was a good shiner in the early winter sun.
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A Chevrolet Epica sedan, seen in the far north of Beijing in 2019. The Epica was painted black and in a fine overall shape. The Chevrolet Epica was a mid-sized sedan made in China by the Shanghai-GM joint venture.
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A white Roewe W5, seen in a cold winter’s day in south Beijing. The W5 was a mid-size luxury SUV that was produced between 2011 and 2017, with a facelift in 2014. Our W5 is an original pre-facelift car. The good Roewe was in a fine shape, painted in white with the plastics intact and fitted with the factory wheels.
A very pretty Shanghai SH760A, seen on a local auto show in Beijing in 2012. The classic Chinese sedan was in a perfect shape, painted in a period shade of yellow-beige, with all the original chrome and white wall tires.
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Back in the late 90s and early 00s, when you thought of Buick, what probably came to mind would have been images of giant landyachts with supremely-comfortable (ohh those pillowly leather benches…) but outdated interiors being driven 20 below the limit by some old Geezer holding you up in the left-lane. In China though, things were a little bit different.
This big blue barge is the Roewe RX8, a large seven-seat SUV from China with lots of horsepower. It looks impressive, with a super sized grille and lot of bling.
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