About China's Coolest Cars
A Rolls-Royce Ghost, as seen late at night in Beijing in the winter of 2011. The good Roller is painted in metallic gray with a metal-gray hood, it stands on standard alloy wheels and it has a classy blue 京A license plate.
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A Rolls-Royce Phantom EWB, seen in the Dongzhimen area in Beijing in 2011. The enormous British-German limousine was painted in a dark shade of black with gold striping over the sides. It has darkened windows, a red interior, and standard factory alloy wheels.
A majestic Rolls-Royce Phantom sedan in China, seen in 2011 in the capital Beijing. The enormous machine was painted in a pretty shade of blue with a beige interior. Notably, it didn’t have darkened windows.
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A massive Rolls-Royce Phantom saloon, seen in central Beijing back in 2013. The Phantom looked brilliant, painted in a pretty and very dark shade of black, and further sexed up with completely dark windows and shiploads of shiny chrome.
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A Rolls-Royce Phantom super luxury car, seen in the Lido area in Beijing in 2016. The giant Roller was painted in black with a dark silver grille, a red-orange stripe on the side, and a totally red leather interior.
Note the Element Fresh restaurant in the background. They had a small restaurant chain, hugely popular in the mid- and late 2000’s, with ‘healthy’ sandwiches and such more nonsense. They filed for bankruptcy in late 2021. Too bad for the owners but I won’t miss them for a minute. Gimme pizza!
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A Rolls-Royce Cullinan, seen in Beijing in 2021 by Joachim, thank you for the photo! The gigantic Roller is painted in an interesting bespoke color scheme with a turquoise blue body and the matte gray bonnet and roof. The windows are darkened and it stands on the standard 5-twin spoke wheels.
The Cullinan is a boat of car with suicide doors, 5.3 meters long and weighing a massive 2.7 ton. Price is steep too, starting at 6.1 million yuan. Happily, it has lots of power to move its weight. Engine is a 6.7 liter twin-turbocharged V12 engine with an output of 563 hp and 850 Nm.
The engine is mated to an 8-speed automatic transmission sending horses to all four wheels. Top speed is limited to 250 kilometers per hour and 0-100 is gone in 5.2 seconds. It takes a but of gasoline though, as the Cullinan drinks 14.9 liters per 100 kilometer, no matter which color is has.
A massive Rolls-Royce Dawn convertible, seen on the Tuning Tribe tuning street in Beijing, parked in front of a Porsche GT3 4.0 and a Ferrari 812 Superfast. The big Roller was painted in dark green and fitted with gray 7-spoke alloys. A very pretty car indeed.
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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.
A very pretty Rolls-Royce Dawn, seen in an alley at a second hand car market in Beijing. The massive Roller was painted in a dark shade of purple, and fitted with a black top.
