Exploring China's Wild Automotive World
Exploring China's Wild Automotive World
A horse-drawn carriage in Beijing. Until about 2010, it was normal to see these in the Chinese capital in the summer, bringing fruit and vegetables from the nearby countryside and selling them straight from the cart. On warm weekends, you…
A green Citroen Elysee VIP taxi, seen in the great city of Nanjing in Jiangsu province in China. The Elysee VIP was a long-wheelbase variant of the Elysee series, which was an updated Citroen Fukang, which was based on the…
This little wine-red beauty is a Volkswagen Citi Golf. The great VW was in good shape. Sure it was dusty, but was it not in the capital? The Volkswagen badge up front was made of metal and thus a bit…
The China-made Ford S-Max was a slow seller and is therefore a rather rare sight on the road. But here we got one! A silver example that seemed somewhat abandoned, looking very dusty and with a deflated rear tire.
A white Hyundai Sonata GLS V6 Gold sedan on the streets of Beijing, right after a nasty dust storm, covered in dirt from the endless steppes of Inner Mongolia and Mongolia. Happily, it was in very good shape. And it…
Two pretty French Peugeot sedans at sunset in the mountains to the north of Beijing. To the left is a gray Guangzhou-Peugeot 505 SX2 with very early 京·A license plates and classy darkened windows. The 505 was made in China…
I have always been, and I will always be, a big fan of the Changan-Suzuki Alto. It is one of the coolest cars ever made in China. In fact, when I arrived in China in 2003, I seriously considered buying…
A gray Peugeot 505 SX, seen in central Beijing. The pretty French sedan was in pretty good shape and entirely original. Even the antenna seemed the real thing!
Here we have a Foton View Surf, seen in Beijing on a sunny day. The Foton View was a series of SUVs based on a pickup truck chassis. The Surf was the top-end variant of the View.