About China's Coolest Cars
The Voyah Taishan is a typical Chinese luxury SUV: gigantic, high-tech, in-your-face, and loaded with bling. I saw this Gilded Purple example in southern Beijing in the spring of 2026. There’s much to tell:
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Here’s a 212 T01, seen at a car market in east Beijing in the summer of 2025. It looked great in Breeze Blue, with big off-road tires and a night-light on the front fender. It has a 4×4 powertrain with a 252 hp 2.0 turbo under the hood. Let’s have a closer look at this interesting machine:
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Here’s a Mitsuoka Galue-II, seen at a car market in Beijing in 2025. It looked fantastic in dark black, with its shiny bumpers and white-wall tires. The car was slightly modified, with a lower ride height, bigger wheels, and a cool flag pole.
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This is a JAC Kunspeed ET9 at a JAC Commercial Vehicles dealership in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China. I had never come across the Kunspeed before, so the moment I spotted it, I rushed over like a madman. The staff gave me a warm welcome and gladly showed me around the truck.
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Here’s a Beijing BJ80, seen at a car market in the far southwest of the Chinese capital, Beijing. The boxy SUV looked great in Dark Night Black, and it was fitted with the original 18-inch five-spoke alloy wheels.
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Welcome to Black License Plate Mania in Beijing, Part 14, where we look at cars with black license plates in the Chinese capital. The first photo is a Shanghai-GM Buick Regal sedan with 京A·18554. It also has a beautiful, shiny license plate frame, which was a popular accessory in the 2000s.
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Here’s a Buick Electra L7, seen at a makeshift parking lot in Beijing on a warm spring day in 2026. The Morning Glow Rice-painted car looked pretty good under the sun, with its aerodynamic design and shiny chrome trim.
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Here is a beautiful Audi 100 S4, seen in the Dongzhimen area of Beijing in February 2013. I lived in the area at the time and had seen the Audi speeding by several times, but it was always gone before I had my phone out. Finally, one day, I found it casually parked on a bike lane, completely unattended.
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Today’s cool car in China is this pretty Buick Sail SR-V, which I saw at a car market in east Beijing in September 2019. The SR-V looked great in red, and still had its original stickers and wheel covers.
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This is a Mercedes-Benz 600 SEL Pullman stretched limousine, based on the W140 S-Class. I saw this great-looking limousine at a car market in East Beijing in 2017. It stood alone in front of an abandoned shop – seemingly abandoned. Happily, it seemed in reasonable shape.
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