About China's Coolest Cars
Here’s a Hongqi Qijian CA7460, seen at a car market in Beijing. The big Hongqi looked a little dusty but seemed otherwise in good shape. It was black, as they all are, with a shiny grille and loads of chrome.
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Here’s a Hongqi H6, seen on a muddy parking lot in Beijing. The H6 is a sporty sedan with a low-slung design. Like many newer Hongqi models, it has a modern interpretation of the classic Hongqi hood ornament, running from the hood into the shiny grille. It is painted in Charming Night Black with a Graphite Black interior.
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Here’s a Hongqi HS3 SUV, as seen on the road in south Beijing. The HS3 is a popular gasoline-powered SUV. The traditional Hongqi hood ornament runs from the hood into the middle of the grille.
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This is a Hongqi E-HS9 Flagship, a gigantic luxury full-electric SUV from China. I saw this example in south Beijing in the summer of 2024. The color is Charming Night Black. Hongqi also offers other colors, but all the E-HS9s I have seen have been black, just like this one. Black is the traditional Hongqi color, and this habit dies hard.
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This is a Hongqi H9, a full-size luxury sedan in China. The H9 has an impressive presence on the road, with an enormous grille with 14 vertical bars. The classic Hongqi ‘red flag’ hood ornament runs from the hood over the edge into the grille.
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This is an Honqgi CA7200, a Chinese sedan based on the Audi 100. I saw this great vehicle back in 2012 in Beijing. It was a little dusty, but in those days, everything was. Otherwise, the CA7200 looked great for its age.
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This is the Hongqi HS7, a large Chinese SUV. The HS7 is an impressive car, with an enormous grille with a lot of shine. The typical Hongqi hood ornament runs over the hood and into the center slat of the grille. The car that I met was painted in Hongqi black, with dark windows and gray wheels.
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The Hongqi CA770 is China’s most iconic classic car. I met this beautiful unrestored example at a local car show in Beijing in 2010. The enormous Chinese state limousine was in perfect shape. Painted in black, of course, with all the chrome bits in place, two flag poles, and the original white wall tires and shiny wheel covers.
A Hongqi H7 sedan, seen on a police equipment exhibition in Beijing in 2012. The H7 was still brand new then, so it was displayed on a stage with large screens. The H7 was painted black, like they always were, emphasizing the size and shine of the grille and the red hood ornament.
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Let’s go back in time to 2003 when I visited the Changchun Auto Show in the great city of Changchun, the capital of Jilin Province. Changchun is also the hometown of First Auto Works (FAW) and its iconic Hongqi brand. So there was plenty of Hongqi to see. In the first photo a perfect Hongqi Qijian CA7460 on the parking lot, with a flag pole on the fender. Continue reading “Hongqi Qijian CA7460 And Some Other Hongqi Cars In Jilin, China, In 2003”
