About China's Coolest Cars
Here’s a Qiyuan E07, seen earlier this summer in south Beijing. The Qiyuan E07 is an ultra-cool Chinese lifestyle SUV that transforms into a pickup truck. It has a mad design with a super-short hood and a long, stretched-out cabin. The front lights are hidden behind a darkened panel.
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Here’s a Geely Englon TX4. I met it at a car market in south Beijing in 2016. The TX4 looked like a charm, painted in blue with a shiny grille and the taxi sign above the windshield.
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This is the Geely Meirenbao, China’s first sports car. I met this brilliant red example in the summer of 2023 near Zhangjiakou in China’s Hebei Province. The Meirenbao was in good shape, a bit dusty and busted, but otherwise okay, and fitted with the original six-spoke alloy wheels.
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Here’s a Landwind X7, seen alongside the road on a hot summer day in Beijing in 2018. The X7 was painted in Kunlun White, named after the Kunlun Mountains. It was in great shape, with darkened windows and the original multi-spoke alloy wheels.
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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This odd machine is a Ruf Freiheit. I saw it in north Beijing in August 2018. The Freiheit looked great in silver with darkened windows and classic five-spoke Ruf racing wheels.
Here’s a Volvo 240 GL sedan, seen at a car repair shop in northeast Beijing in 2018. Someone parked the poor Volvo in the back of the building, surrounded by electric motorbikes and parts.
This is the Tank 300 Cyberknight, seen at the Cyberspace shop in Beijing. Cyberspace is a Chinese car modification company. It is most famous for collaborating with Great Wall Motor’s Tank brand. In 2022, Cyberspace and Tank created the spectacular Tank 300 Cyberknight.
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Here’s a Zotye Z200 HB, seen in the summer of 2023 near Zhangjiakou in China’s Hebei Province. The compact hatchback was in reasonable shape, painted in silver with cracks in the bumpers and other minor damage to the body. The license plate is from Hebei Province.
