About China's Coolest Cars
Here we have a Hafei Zhongyi pickup truck, seen in the ultra far east of Beijing in January 2015. The truck was loaded with 24-bottle crates of Snow beer, making any man extremely thirsty.
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A Hafei Lobo 1.1 16V, seen in February 2015 in central Beijing. The good Lobo was in a great shape, painted in a pretty shade of blue that almost matches with the license plates. The car seemed totally original, down to the sporty alloy wheels.
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A pretty Hafei Songhuajiang minivan, seen up in the mountains to the north of Beijing on an early spring day in 2010. The good Songhuajiang was painted in taxi-red and fitted with very early blue 京A·90085 license plates.
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A super sweet Hafei Baili HFJ7090, seen in Fangzhuang District in Beijing in 2012. The good Baili was in a reasonable shape but in dire need of some love and maintenance. It was painted in an 80’s style shade of beige with gray bumpers and with steel wheels.
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This is a personally historical photo because it was the first photo I took with my brand new China-made Nokia telephone, which I got in the great year of 2003. Photo quality was still far worse compared to a real camera, which I always carried with me until 2012, when I deemed the iPhone good enough for street pics.
The picture shows a typical street not far from my home in the Dongzhimen area, with 1970’s 6-floor apartment buildings on the left side. It must have been winter, the trees are leafless and the air looks cold. A woman in a brown jacket tried to ruin my picture but failed.
The Hafei minivan is still clearly visible. It is a standard-roof passenger variant. The blue 京A license plate indicate this is a very early privately owned car. Blue A’s are very rare nowadays but back in 2003 I had no idea about that. May I be able to look into the future in my next Hafei life.
This is a Hafei Lobo Cross, seen in a car market in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province in China. The Hafei Lobo, or Lubao in Chinese, was manufactured from 2002 until 2012, with 3 facelifts over the years.
This gray little fellow is a Hafei Saibao, a small sedan designed by none other than Pininfarina. Does it show..? I think it does. The overall design is certainly better than other Chinese sedans of that period, but some details seem odd, such as the lights and the far-too wide wheel arches.
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The Songhuajiang minivans once were everywhere in Beijing, and in the entire north and northeast of China. They were used to transport everything, from humans to chicken from wood to eggs.
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