About China's Coolest Cars
This is the Baojun Yep Plus, seen in the late afternoon in Beijing. The Yep Plus looked great in Azure Blue with a white roof and tinted windows. The boxy SUV packs 102 hp, and it has a 402-kilometer range.
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This is an IM L6, a Chinese electric sports sedan with distinctive boomerang-shaped headlights. It has a lidar on the roof and a millimeter-wave radar under the license plate. I met the pretty sedan in the far south of the Chinese capotal Beijing.
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Here’s a Wuling Mini EV 4-Door Version, parked next to a sports court in southern Beijing. The electric mini car was brand new and looked super cute & cool, painted in Sweet Coffee and fitted with “five-spoke” black and white wheel covers.
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Here’s a Changhe Beidouxing X5E panel van, spotted in a car-repair area in the far north of Beijing, the capital of China. The Beidouxing 5E panel van is directly related to the Suzuki Wagon R+. It features a 55 kW electric motor and a range of 268 km. It looks great in white, and it had to, because white was the only color Changhe offered.
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Here’s a Lynk & Co 900 EM-P, seen parked on the roadside in Beijing, the capital of China. The 900 is a massive SUV with an advanced PHEV powertrain with 725 hp. The car in the photos is so new it doesn’t have license plates yet.
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Here’s an ultra-rare Rolls-Royce Phantom Spirit Of Ecstasy Centenary, seen at a rather mundane parking lot in the east of the Chinese capital, Beijing. The enormous Rolls-Royce looked massively brilliant.
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This is a Foton Fengjing i7 painted in White Jade, seen in northern Beijing in the summer of 2025. The Fengjing i7 is a new fully electric minivan with six seats, a 110 kW motor, and a $13.7K price tag.
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I went to an Xpeng shop in China. The reason for my visit was the new Xpeng P7, one of the wildest mainstream Chinese cars ever. Happily, the shop had a Rhythm Yellow example on display right behind the door.
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This is a Ford Taurus GL sedan, seen in central Beijing in the cold winter of 2013. The American sedan was in reasonable shape, painted in dark green and fitted with factory-original wheel covers. It also had very old black Beijing license plates.
Here’s a Chery Fulwin 1.6 EFI, seen in a car dealer area in Beijing in 2018. The old Chery sedan was in perfect shape, painted in a light shade of gold and fitted with the original 5-spoke sporty wheels. The Chery Fulwin is based on the Seat Toledo Mk 1.
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