About China's Coolest Cars
This is a W140 Mercedes-Benz S 280, seen in a central Beijing office area in February 2013. The big Mercedes looked absolutely perfect! It was very rare to see a W140 in this condition in China – especially in the winter. The owner clearly took very good care of his S 280.
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This is a Mercedes-Benz 600 SEL Pullman stretched limousine, based on the W140 S-Class. I saw this great-looking limousine at a car market in East Beijing in 2017. It stood alone in front of an abandoned shop – seemingly abandoned. Happily, it seemed in reasonable shape.
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Here’s a Mercedes-Benz ML 320, seen in central Beijing in 2018. It is rare to see such a base-spec model in China; most are high-end or AMG. It was painted plain white, with black bumpers, and with black Beijing license plates.
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An ultra-rare AMG Japan Mercedes-Benz 300 GE Cabriolet, seen on the premises of FB City in northeast Beijing. The old Mercedes looked stunning, almost as-new, painted in a beautiful shade of black with the original alloy wheels. The owner fitted modern headlights, but the rest of the car is so perfect, so I can live with that.
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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 Mercedes-Benz SLK, seen at the parking lot of a Mercedes dealer in Beijing in 2018. The roadster looked great, painted white with pretty multi-spoke alloy wheels.
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This is a cool Mercedes-Benz 230 E. I met it at a car repair market in south Beijing in 2024. The good old Benz looked great in dark blue. It had lowered suspension and was fitted with period AMG alloy wheels.
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In the spring of 2014, I visited a Mercedes-Benz AMG Performance Center in Shanghai. The place was loaded with the fastest AMG cars, including a C63 AMG Edition 507, a C63 Coupe AMG Edition 507, an S63L AMG 4Matic, and a G63 AMG.
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This is a Mercedes-AMG G63 Edition 1, seen in the Chinese capital Beijing in the summer of 2019. The big Benz appeared to be brand new and looked imposing under the green trees near the Lido Hotel.
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Here we have an extremely beautiful W210 Mercedes-Benz E-Class sedan, seen in June 2016 at the parking lot of a shopping mall in the far east of Beijing. The Mercedes has diplomatic license plates and belongs to the Embassy of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
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