About China's Coolest Cars
Here’s a Lutom Chaowei, seen at a market in the great city of Taian in Shandong Province in 2018. The fantastically cool LSEV looked almost new, with a large blue Lutom logo on the grille, and fitted with an interesting luggage rack on the roof.
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This is a Nissan Sentra sedan, seen in the early spring of 2017 in the Sanlitun embassy district in Beijing. The Sentra was in reasonable shape, a bit dusty and busted, with ugly stickers in strange places.
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Here is a cool Audi Q7 SUV, seen at the parking lot of the Solona mall in Beijing in February 2014. It was a cold winter, and there had been lots of snow. The big German SUV didn’t care about the cold. It looked pretty hot indeed, wrapped in a super shiny pink wrap.
This is the Neta S, a pretty Chinese sedan. I met it near a Neta service center in south Beijing in 2024. The color name is Raptor Brown, which is confusing, as it seems more purple than brown. But hey, these new Chinese EV companies have their ways of doing things, don’t they?
This little beauty is a Wuling Nano EV Disney Limited Edition. I met it at a car market in Beijing in the summer of 2024. The Wuling Nano EV Disney Limited Edition is a special edition of the Wuling Nano EV.
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This is the HiPhi Z, one of the craziest Chinese cars ever made. It was indeed a bit too crazy. I met this pretty Khaki Green example at a dealer area in south Beijing, where it stood abandoned. It was an ex-demo car, according to a guy working in a nearby shop.
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Here’s an impressive Land Rover Defender 90 P400 with a lot of stuff on it. I met this great British off-road machine at a car market in south Beijing in 2024. The Defender looks brilliant, ready for the urban jungle and the endless mountains to the north of the capital.
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Check this first-generation Audi A8, seen in the parking lof of the Lido Hotel in Beijing in 2015. The old Audi looked absolutely perfect and original, super clean, painted in black, with lots of chrome and shiny alloy wheels.
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This is the Tank 300 Wind and Forest Cavalry, a special edition of the Tank 300, co-created with Topfire. The big SUV looked impressive, painted in Lava Gray, with big black bumpers and giant wheels.
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Here’s an Avatr 11, a futuristic electric car that looks like a spaceship from the future. I saw this Bright White example in Beijing in the summer of 2024, right after a rainstorm.
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