About China's Coolest Cars
Today a car with a very long name: Dongfeng-Nissan Fengshen EQ7200-II Bluebird 2.0i SLA Grandeur. I saw this pristine white example in the Wangjing Subdistrict in northeast Beijing. The old sedan was in a great shape and fitted with the original wheels and all the original badges.
A pretty blue Dongfeng DFAC truck carrying a very heavy load of discarded carton, seen in the far east of Beijing back in 2016. The load is so heavy indeed that the truck almost seemed to break. Check the position and angle of the rear wheel! DFAC stands for Dongfeng Automobile Corporation, a major Chinese truck maker and a subsidiary of Dongfeng Motor.
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I was very happy to find this Dongfeng Yueda Kia Pride hatchback in China. The hatchback is much rarer than the sedan. The Pride was in a fine general shape but it was seemingly abandoned, with the license plates taken off.
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A silver Kia Pride sedan with some slight damage on the door, seen on the parking lot of the Poly Theatre in central Beijing in 2011. The Kia Pride was made in China by the Dongfeng-Yueda-Kia joint venture. Continue reading “Dongfeng Yueda Kia Pride Sedan In China”
Three super fresh trees, seen on a classic-blue diesel-powered truck on a highway south of the Chinese capital in April 2011. Trucks carrying trees are a returning occurrence in spring in Beijing when trees from plantations in the suburbs are brought into town for planting. Green city!
Here we have a big Dongfeng beer truck, in the correct worker’s blue, loaded with about a hundred crates of delicious Yanjing beer, standing in front of a restaurant in central Beijing.
I saw the truck in 2007, when Yanjing beer bottles still contained 0.645 liters of easily drinkable beer with an alcohol percentage of 3.6%. In my good old days, I drank a truck of the stuff each week. Sadly, most Chinese beer makers have since changed their bottle size to the internationally more acceptable 0.5 liter.
The Dongfeng truck was already an oldie in 2007, and it was clearly not having an easy day with its heavy load of booze! I love the frames on the sides, with reflective 3M tape, intended to prevent bicyclists from ending up underneath. Cheers, old Dongfeng beer truck, hope you are still around somewhere.
The Dongfeng Fengshen A9 is one of those large Chinese sedans that nobody has ever heard of, even in China, and that nobody buys. Too bad, because the Fengshen A9 is an interesting car.
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A lovely Citroen Elysee taxi, seen in central Beijing a few years ago. Sadly, Elysée taxis have largely disappeared from the roads of the capital nowadays.
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