About China's Coolest Cars
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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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 Buick Sail sedan, seen in Beijing in 2018. The Sail was in perfect shape, painted silver, and fitted with the original sporty wheel covers. It also has rare white license plates.
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This is a first-generation Buick Park Avenue sedan, seen in the late summer of 2013 in the far east of the Chinese capital, Beijing. The beautiful Buick was parked in the parking lot of a popular local restaurant and was still used as a daily driver. It was a little dusty, but at that time, everything was.
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This beauty is a first-generation China-only Buick LaCrosse sedan, seen in the Chinese capital Beijing in the summer of 2023. The Buick was in fantastic shape, the dark green paint as new, with darkened windows and the original 9-spoke alloy wheels.
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A massive Buick Roadmaster sedan, as seen on a car market in the far east of the Chinese capital Beijing. The Roadmaster was in poor shape, with rust and busts and missing parts, but it wasn’t beyond restoration.
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A Buick GL8 Century Avenir MPV, as seen in the Chinese capital Beijing in 2024. The enormous people carrier looked great in white, with its extra large bling-bling grille and boomerang-shaped headlights.
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This red beauty is a Buick Excelle HRV Sport, seen in central Beijing in 2019. The Buick was in fine shape, painted in fiery red and fitted with the factory standard body kit. Yes, General Motors can be wild if they really want to.
Back in the late 90s and early 00s, when you thought of Buick, what probably came to mind would have been images of giant landyachts with supremely-comfortable (ohh those pillowly leather benches…) but outdated interiors being driven 20 below the limit by some old Geezer holding you up in the left-lane. In China though, things were a little bit different.
