Exploring China's Wild Automotive World
Exploring China's Wild Automotive World
More beer! A Beijing-branded tricycle carrying empty bottles of Yanjing beer, standing in front of a neighborhood beer distribution point. The blue crates behind the trike are filled with new bottles of delicious Yanjing beer. The green crates are for…
A dark blue Volvo 960 sedan, seen in the Sanlitun embassy district in Beijing in 2011. License plate is an early one too, 陕A·00547 from Shaanxi Province. Judging by the the number, this was one of the very first privately-owned…
A fantastic Maybach 57, seen in Beijing in 2011 on a side road of the Fourth Ring Road. The long-wheelbase Maybach 62 limousine is not uncommon in China but the shorter 57 is quite rare. Whenever I see a Maybach…
A beautiful black Buick Skylark GS, seen on a sunny day in the great summer of 2011 in central Beijing. The Skylark was in very good shape and clearly a daily driver.
A very stealthy FAW Besturn B70 sedan, seen in 2013 on a bicycle lane in my very own street in Beijing. The fine vehicle is wrapped in a fascinating carbon-fiber matte black, as if the whole body is made of…
A Mitsubishi Montero SUV, seen on a compound parking lot in northeast Beijing in 2013. The Montero was totally dressed up for heavy all-terrain work, with a winch, heightened suspension, fog lights, bonnet air ducts, and a snorkel.
A beautiful black Hongqi HQ300 sedan, seen in the Dongzhimen area in Beijing in 2013. The good old Red Flag was is superb shape, with smooth paint and shiny chrome, completely original, nothing missing or broken, and not a spat…
When still in China, I loved to go to police equipment shows to check out new police cars. But whereas I was there just for fun, there were also real coppers shopping for new wheels for their department, and…
Here we have a special car. This is a Nanjing MG TF roadster, seen in Beijing back in 2014. The poor car stood abandoned under trees, dirty and without license plates, with non-matching alloys and tires.