About China's Coolest Cars
Here’s a cool Honda Odyssey. I met it in the parking lot of a bank in Beijing’s Fengtai District. The MPV is in perfect time-capsule shape, painted white with slightly darkened windows and a matching roof box, and fitted with the original wheels.
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Here’s an incredibly cool Honda S2000 sports car, seen at an out-of-the-way parking lot in the far north of Beijing in September 2018. The S2000 was in fantastic shape, almost like new, with shiny paint and wheels. Continue reading “Honda S2000 Is A High-revving Japanse Sports Car In China”
This is the Geely Meirenbao, China’s first sports car. I met this brilliant red example in the summer of 2023 near Zhangjiakou in China’s Hebei Province. The Meirenbao was in good shape, a bit dusty and busted, but otherwise okay, and fitted with the original six-spoke alloy wheels.
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An ultra-rare AMG Japan Mercedes-Benz 300 GE Cabriolet, seen on the premises of FB City in northeast Beijing. The old Mercedes looked stunning, almost as-new, painted in a beautiful shade of black with the original alloy wheels. The owner fitted modern headlights, but the rest of the car is so perfect, so I can live with that.
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This is the Tank 300 Cyberknight, seen at the Cyberspace shop in Beijing. Cyberspace is a Chinese car modification company. It is most famous for collaborating with Great Wall Motor’s Tank brand. In 2022, Cyberspace and Tank created the spectacular Tank 300 Cyberknight.
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Car spotting is a busy business. Taking good photos takes time. And time, we never have enough. Sometimes, when on the road, we are happy to snap one or two pics of a cool car. To show you all these vehicles, we start a new series: Various Cool Cars In China (VCCIC). This is Part 1, with various cars seen in Beijing in the summer of 2016.
We begin with a Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG with matching license plates. The G-Class was mightily popular in the late 2000s and 2010s. The big SUV was big on power, with a 5.5-liter twin-turbocharged V8 with 571 hp and 760 Nm. IT had a 210 km/h top speed, and 0-100 took 5.4 seconds.
This is a Geely Galaxy E5, seen in south Beijing in 2024. It is painted in a pretty gray color called Streamer Silver. It has slender, darkened headlights, sporty aero wheels, and darkened windows. The charging port is on the right front fender.
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Here’s a brilliant Mercedes-Benz S 500L, seen at dusk on a cold day in the winter of 2016 in the Chinese capital Beijing. The big Merc was in perfect shape, painted in Arctic White and fitted with black Beijing license plates.
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Here’s a BAW Luba SUV, seen in the far east of the Chinese capital Beijing in 2016. The Luba looked like it was having a rest after a long ride, covered in dusty dirt from the road. The license plate is from Hebei Province.
Here’s a Beijing BJ40L 70 Anniversary Edition, seen at a car market in Beijing in 2023. The big off-road machine looked great, almost as new. It stands next to the larger BJ90 SUV.
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