About China's Coolest Cars
Here’s a Neta S Shooting Brake, seen at a car market in east Beijing. Station wagons are popular in China right now. Many car makers offer new wagons, but Neta was one of the first.
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Here’s a Neta GT, seen early in the morning in south-central Beijing. The Neta GT is a rare Chinese electric sports car with a long hood and giant headlights. This is the RWD version, with 231 hp and a 190 km/h top speed.
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This is the Neta S, a pretty Chinese sedan. I met it near a Neta service center in south Beijing in 2024. The color name is Raptor Brown, which is confusing, as it seems more purple than brown. But hey, these new Chinese EV companies have their ways of doing things, don’t they?
This light blue little wonder is a Neta V, a subcompact Chinese electric crossover. I met the V in the Chinese capital Beijing in the endless summer of 2023. The design is interesting, with oddly large lights and oddly small wheels. But overall, it is a great compact EV, competing in a hotly contested segment of the Chinese car market.
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Here we have a Neta U, a cool Chinese full-electric crossover, fitted with green NEV license plates. NEV stands for New Energy Vehicle, a Chinese vehicle category that includes EVs, PHEVs & EREVs, and FCEVs. The car that I saw is painted in a color called (translated): Star Diamond Phantom Powder. Chinese car makers love to outdo one another when it comes to poetic color names. This must be one of the best. I’d simply call it light purple. But for sure, Star Diamond Phantom Powder is much better.
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