About China's Coolest Cars
A Lamborghini Gallardo 5.0 Spyder, seen in the cold winter of 2012 in central Beijing. The speedy Italian looks great in matte black with a black top, darkened windows, and the beautiful factory five-spoke alloy wheels.
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Here we have a cool Bentley Flying Spur sedan, seen in Beijing in 2017. The Flying Spur looked great in ‘Fireglow’ dark red with darkened windows and the factory-standard silver gray 5-spoke alloy wheels.
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A Nissan Cefiro 20G sedan, seen in China in 2018. The pretty Nissan sedan was in a very good shape. It was painted in dark blue with tinted windows and classy factory-standard alloy wheels.
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A Changan BenBen Mini with diplomatic license plates, seen in Beijing in 2017. The good BenBen was painted in white and appeared to be in a fine shape.
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A Mercedes-Benz SLK200 Kompressor, seen in Beijing in 2012. The sporty Merc’ was made sportier with a nice body kit including a front spoiler and side skirts. It had darkened windows and stood on five-spoke gray alloy wheels.
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A heavy truck 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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Back we go to our license-plate obsession mode. We are talking May 2015, driving on the mighty Fifth Ring Road in the Chinese capital Beijing. Sitting on the front-passenger seat, I suddenly see an old Range Rover with Inner Mongolia license plates, with an even older Jinbei van in front. License plates: 京·7886 and 蒙D·A8888
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A super rare super early FAW-Volkswagen Audi 100 sedan, seen in 2015 in the Wangjing District in the the Chinese capital Beijing. The good Audi was in a reasonable shape for its age; paint was a bit tired and there was some damage under the left light headlight.
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As our good readers may know, the team at CoolCarsInChina has a very healthy obsession with license plates: black plates, embassy plates, white plates, and otherwise special plates. The license plates of this F01 BMW 740Li fall in that final category: 京N·77AA7. That’s a triple seven on a 7-Series. That can’t be a coincidence and it likely wasn’t any. Great plate for a great car. I met it in east Beijing in 2015.
The fifth generation F01 BMW 7-Series was made from 2008 until 2015, it was only the second generation 7-Series that was officially sold in China. Beige color was a popular color on the Chinese car market. I remember many were sold in this shade. Our 京N·77AA7 has a beige interior too.
BMW only sold the long-wheelbase L models in China, and only powered by petrol engines. The 740Li was powered by a 3.0 liter win-turbocharged six-in-line with output of 322 hp and 450 Nm. Top speed was 250 km/h and 0-100 was all gone in a speedy 6 seconds. Price started at 1.18 million yuan (2009). Lot of money but lot of car, especially with that license plate!
A pretty Mercedes-Benz SLK 230 roadster, seen in 2014 in Beijing, capital of China. The coolest thing first: the 京E·60000 license plate. I can’t remember ever seeing another car in China with four zero’s behind the first number. truly unique plate on a relatively rare car.
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