About China's Coolest Cars
A massive Norinco VP11 mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicle, as seen on a police equipment show in Beijing in 2012. The huge machine was parked in a tiny booth in the exhibition hall, there was barely enough space to walk around it.
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Check out this Volkswagen Touareg 3.0 TDI in central Beijing in 2014. The big SUV has a wild body kit and green headlight lenses. It also has darkened windows, side steps, and strangely wide 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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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.
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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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A super pretty W220 Mercedes-Benz S55 AMG, as seen on a car market in Beijing. The big Mercedes was in good shape, painted in Polar White, and fitted with the original AMG five-spoke alloy wheels.
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This is Voyah Free, an advanced Chinese SUV with an EREV powertrain. I met this great-looking example on a car market in east Beijing. It is painted in a classy color called Jade Green, with darkened headlights and a big old shiny grille.
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Here we have a Geely Icon, as seen parked on the road in the summer of 2023 in Beijing, China. The license plates are of Hebei, the province that surrounds the capital. The Geely Icon is a rather special car, an oddball, in the sense that it doesn’t look like any other Geely.
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A pretty McLaren 650S Spider, as seen near a car shop in east Beijing. The mightily fast supercar was parked on the side of a small road with its nose almost in the bushes.
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A dark blue Jaguar XFL, seen in the Chinese capital Beijing. The Jag was covered in a thick layer of dust but looked otherwise fine. The XFL is a long-wheelbase variant of the X260 Jaguar XF sedan.
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