About China's Coolest Cars
A massive Norinco VP11 mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicle, as seen on a police equipment show in Beijing in 2012. The huge machine was parked in a tiny booth in the exhibition hall, there was barely enough space to walk around it.
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Back in the spring of 2010, I went to the great Chinese megacity of Chongqing for work. When I had time off, I went out to check cars. Not far from the banks of the Yangtze River, I bumped into a flock of Chinese police cars. The vehicles were unattended, just how I liked it, so I had a good look around.
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Here we have a couple of super cool electric cleaning tricycles, seen in Beijing in the winter of 2019 under a bridge on the mighty Second Ring Road. The vehicles were unattended and unguarded, so I was able to conduct a thorough inspection.
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An Ilyushin Il-62 jet airliner, seen in November 2011 in the Beijing World Park in the Chinese capital Beijing. Next to the airplane stood two brilliantly cool Beijing BJ130 airplane-ladder vehicles.
A statue of Eric Theodore Cartman (‘Cartman’), the main and most important character in the Southpark animated sitcom television series. Cartman stood on a parking lot in front of a wall on a box behind a vase behind some rubbish. He had the finger up, pointing to the rear, and the other hand in fist.
There didn’t seem any connection between the statue and its surroundings; a parking lot. Sire, Cartman looked very angry with, but Cartman is always angry with something, so that doesn’t say very much. The paint of the statue was fading, so I guess it must have been there for quite a while, occupying a precious parking space. But who’d ever dare to question Cartman about that..?
It’s Lindsay Lohan, seen on a poster advertising a magazine in the summer of 2011 in Beijing. The summers are hot in the Chinese capital. Temperature regularly hits 35 °C and can reach 40 on steamy days. Lindsay is properly dressed for the weather, but she still seems sweaty, and seemingly can’t wait to take it all down.
A ‘Beetle A6 Coupé’, seen in a toy store in China in 2015. The toy car depicts the A5 Volkswagen Beetle, made from 2011 until 2019. This kind if die cast models are totally unlicensed and very common in China. To et around probable copyright issues, toy makers often invent new names that are close to the original but not close enough to cause trouble.
The Chinese text says ‘德国大众汽车’, or ‘German Volkswagen Car’. The model was made by toy maker MZ Model (美致模型), based in Shantou, Guangdong province. The shop had two on offer, one in shiny pink and one in dark red. Scale was about 1:32 and it sold for 88 yuan, which was a little steep for this kind of model. But I guess the pink one was worth it.
A tank thing, seen in Hebei Province to the east of Beijing in the winter of 2019. Contraptions like these are sometimes used by restaurants to ‘fire’ fireworks during wedding ceremonies and other miserable celebrations.
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Trans is a hot topic these days, with talks about weightlifting and whatnot more. But among China’s toy makers trans is totally okay. Just check out this pretty toy set, a Transformers clone called Super · Trans. The set included five smaller Super · Trans robots that trans into a larger one, seen on the right side of the box.
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And that day back in 2016 I was pleasantly surprised to find brand new radio-cassette players on the shelves of a Jingkelong supermarket in Beijing. They had two Panda-branded models. Panda is a famous Chinese electronics brand, making everything from robots to consumer electronics , including several cassette and CD players.
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