A Very Lucky Truck On The Highway In China

A heavy truck seen on the mighty Fifth Ring Road in Beijing on a cloudy and polluted winter’s day in 2014. The truck was dusty but extremely lucky: the license plate has four sixes, and 6 is a lucky number in Chinese culture, associated with good fortune in business.

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Ferrari F430 Spider Is A Spice Spirit In Beijing

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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Bentley Arnage Is A Big British Luxury Sedan In China

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.

Yunbao YB2030 Nissan Patrol Y60 Is A Chinese-Japanese Mash-up

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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The Brilliant Chinese Jinma Wedding Car Rides For The Hainan Sky Bar In Style

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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Tricycle Is Slightly Overloaded At Night In China

A slightly overloaded tricycle, seen at night in central Beijing by our good friend Lao Wei, thank you for the pictures! The dapper tricycle is loaded to the absolute max, about 4 meters up and 3 wide. Hope it doesn’t need to pass too many tunnels. Note the Beijing-Hyundai Elantra taxi in the background on the left.

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Ferrari SF90 Stradale Supercar On A Flatbed In China

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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Black License Plate Mania In Beijing Part 8

Welcome to Black License Plate Mania In Beijing Part 8 (Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7), where we look at cars with black license plates in the Chinese capital. On the first picture a BMW 3-Series sedan with some M-bits with 京A·02230.

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Mitsubishi Outlander With A Body Kit In China

A heavily modified Mitsubishi Outlander, seen in the Lido area in Beijing in 2011. The Outlander is normally a somewhat boring SUV but this one was not. It looked like real racer with a hefty body kit, lower suspension, air inlets in the bonnet and bumper, darkened windows, and black five-spoke alloy wheels with blue brake calipers.

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