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Getting Some Varta Juice With The Volkswagen Santana In China

A Volkswagen Santana sedan at a roadside Varta battery shop, seen in the great megacity of Chongqing a few years back.

These kinds of small shops used to be everywhere, but nowadays most are gone. The Santana is dressed up with a shiny wheel arch extender. The Volkswagen Santana was made in China by FAW-Volkswagen. The seven-spoke alloy wheels were factory standard.

Varta is a German battery-making company. Conventional Varta batteries were widely used by Chinese car makers in the 2000s, but the German company missed out on the transition to electric cars. Nowadays,  Varta no longer plays a significant role in China anymore.

The NIO ES6 Premier Edition Is A Stylish Electric SUV

NIO ES6

This is the NIO ES6 Premier Edition, a mid-sized electric SUV. It was the second car of the NIO brand, launched after the larger ES8 and the sportier EC6. The NIO ES6 debuted in China in 2019 and so far there are no real plans for export.

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Great Wall Safe RV CC6460D In Yellow In China

Great Wall Safe RV

Here we have a near-perfect Great Wall Safe RV, seen at the Agricultural Exhibition Center in Beijing. The ‘RV’ was the top-end variant of the Great Wall Safe, known in China as the Saifu. Except for the bull-bar, everything on the vehicle was factory-standard, including:

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Mercedes-Benz CLK Convertible Is Lime Green In China

Mercedes-Benz CLK Convertible

A cool Mercedes-Benz CLK convertible, seen at the Worker’s Stadium in central Beijing. The good Benz is wrapped in a trendy lime-green wrap, and further sexed up with darkened windows, a black convertible roof, and black alloys.

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