About China's Coolest Cars
Here’s a brilliant Mercedes-Benz S 500L, seen at dusk on a cold day in the winter of 2016 in the Chinese capital Beijing. The big Merc was in perfect shape, painted in Arctic White and fitted with black Beijing license plates.
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Here’s a BAW Luba SUV, seen in the far east of the Chinese capital Beijing in 2016. The Luba looked like it was having a rest after a long ride, covered in dusty dirt from the road. The license plate is from Hebei Province.
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’s a pretty Mitsubishi Pajero GLX. It is the ultimate base model, painted in a simple shade of silver with unpainted bumpers, a black grille, and super cool steel wheels. I met this Pajero in the far north of the Chinese capital Beijing.
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Here’s a Beijing BJ40L 70 Anniversary Edition, seen at a car market in Beijing in 2023. The big off-road machine looked great, almost as new. It stands next to the larger BJ90 SUV.
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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 a Haima 3 hatchback, seen in the Chinese capital Beijing in 2018. The Haima was in great shape, painted black with the original five-spoke alloy wheels. The owner took great care of the little Haima, even the chrome bits were shiny as new.
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Here’s a Volvo 940, seen in Beijing in the cold winter of 2014. The classic Swedish sedan stood in a small compound, in front of a red Honda Civic. There had been a lot of snow earlier that week, so every car on the road looked dirty. Snow was always gray in Beijing, never totally white. Nowadays, snow is rare in the Chinese capital.
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Here’s a Fiat Siena in the Chinese capital Beijing in 2018. The subcompact Italian sedan was in good shape for its age, painted in a sleepy shade of silver with slightly darkened windows and the factory-original gray wheel covers.
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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?
