About China's Coolest Cars
Here’s a Fiat Viaggio S, seen in the far east of the Chinese capital, Beijing, parked next to a Hyundai Elantra taxi. The sporty Italian sedan was in great shape, with its bright red paint shining in the summer sun.
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This is the Geely Galaxy E8, seen at a car market in east Beijing. The Chinese electric sedan looks super pretty in Space Blue, with sharp dark headlights, a racy front bumper, and dark-gray alloy wheels.
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Here’s a Fiat Palio, seen in Beijing on a hot summer day in 2018. The Forest Green hatchback was a little dirty but otherwise in fine shape, with the original wheel covers and fitted with rare white Beijing license plates.
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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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This is the 2025 Xpeng X9 Performance, seen in Beijing. The giant machine looks more like a spaceship than a car, especially in this pretty Nebula White color, combined with darkened windows and gray aero wheels.
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This is the Baojun Yep Plus, seen in the late afternoon in Beijing. The Yep Plus looked great in Azure Blue with a white roof and tinted windows. The boxy SUV packs 102 hp, and it has a 402-kilometer range.
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This is an Hoxid ID7, seen on a rainy day in the far south of Beijing, capital of China. The Hoxid ID7 is a three-wheeled low-speed electric vehicle (LSEV) with four doors and four seats, a somewhat unusual configuration.
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I love Chinese police cars. In the summer of 2018, I was riding around the far east of Beijing with my red Luyuan electric scooter. At one moment, I crossed a railway and found a yard filled with decommissioned police cars from the 1990s, including many classic Beijing Jeep Cherokees.
That made my day. Two elderly police men guarded the place; they were playing cards in the gray building in the background. They didn’t show much surprise about me showing up, and didn’t mind me walking around and taking photos. So, here we go:
This is an IM L6, a Chinese electric sports sedan with distinctive boomerang-shaped headlights. It has a lidar on the roof and a millimeter-wave radar under the license plate. I met the pretty sedan in the far south of the Chinese capotal Beijing.
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Here’s a Chery Fulwin A9L, a large aerodynamic sedan with a PHEV powertrain. I met it in front of a Chery dealer in southern Beijing. It is a great-looking car, featuring a lot of tech and power.
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