About China's Coolest Cars
This red beast is the Geely Baofeng GT Sport, seen parked on a pavement in north Beijing. The Baofeng (Leopard Wind) GT Sportwas a sporty cross-over thing based on the Geely Haoqing, aka Geely HQ.
The Geely HQ in turn was based on the Tianjin Xiali, which in another turn was based on the Daihatsu Charade.
Here we have a Foton View Surf, seen in Beijing on a sunny day. The Foton View was a series of SUVs based on a pickup truck chassis. The Surf was the top-end variant of the View.
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A Lamborghini LP 560-4 with a LP 570-4 Superleggera front-bumper conversion body kit, seen in front of my favorite Pepper Lunch restaurant in Beijing, capital of China. The speedy Lamboo was painted in yellow and stood on matte gray wheels.
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A light blue BMW M4 sports-coupe, seen at night in Beijing, capital of China. The speedy Bimmer is dressed up with a set of ultra cool after market wheels, darkened windows, and a N·920M4 license plate.
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Here we have a beautiful black Honda Accord 2.0 EXi HG7200. The sixth-generation Honda Accord was the first generation Honda Accord that was made in China. Production started in 1999 at Guangzhou-Honda.
A white Toyota 4Runner TRD Off-Road in Beijing, looking every inch as giant as it is. The vehicle looked brand new, with super cool typical Toyota decals on the sides and license plates from Jilin Province.
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A Rolls-Royce Ghost with an embassy license plate in Beijing. In China, the first three numbers on an embassy plate indicate the country.
In this case, 121 stands for the Kingdom of Cambodia. The Rolls-Royce likely belongs to Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni, who, like his father before him, is known to spend a lot of his time in Beijing.
The Rolls-Royce Ghost is an expensive car. In 2020, Rolls-Royce asked 4.5 million yuan for the German-British limousine. Under the long hood is a 6.6-liter twin-turbocharged V12 with an output of 571 hp and 820 Nm. With that, the Ghost had a top speed of 250 km/h, and it did 0-100 in 4.9s
This little blue wonder is the ORA iQ, an electric car for China with an interesting design. Note especially the fake air intakes on each side of the front; I guess those don’t help the aerodynamics very much.
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A very nice second-generation (XA20) Toyota RAV4 SUV, seen at night in east Beijing. The good Toyota looked great and had those incredible cool decals on the sides.
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.
