About China's Coolest Cars
Here we have a very special vehicle. This pretty truck is a Beijing BJ130 fire truck, seen in the Sanlitun embassy area in Beijing in 2011. The truck is painted in fire-red with white-wall tires. To kill flames, it is fitted with a spray mechanism at the front, a water canon behind the cabin, and a large water tank.
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A Great Wall Hover SUV, seen on a car accessories market in Beijing in 2011. The good Hover was pretending to be a Toyota, with Toyota logo’s on the grille and on the back. We are not that easily fooled!
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A speedy Subaru BRZ sports car, seen on a second-hand car market in Beijing in 2018. The BRZ was in a perfect shape, and the Subaru blue color almost matched with the color of the Beijing license plate.
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A heavy truck on the mighty Fifth Ring Road in Beijing on a cloudy and polluted winter’s day in 2014. The truck was dusty but extremely lucky: the license plate has four sixes, and 6 is a lucky number in Chinese culture, associated with good fortune in business.
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A spicy-red Ferrari F430 Spider seen at a parking lot of a mall in the Dongzhimen area in Beijing in 2011. Customers of the nearby Spice Spirit restaurant could win a ride in the Ferrari if they won a lottery. The owner of the restaurant owned the car as well.
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A stately Bentley Arnage sedan, seen at a restaurant in the mountains to the north of the Chinese capital Beijing in 2011. The Arnage was painted in a pretty shade of dark green and loaded with chrome. The license plates, with a rare triple 3 sequence, are of Jiangsu province. That’s a driving distance of at least 1000 kilometers. Must have been quite a ride in that big Bentley.
The Bentley Arnage was officially sold in China from 2004 until 2009. The car on the photo is a 2005 Arnage R, powered by the massive 6.75 liter twin-turbocharged V8 engine, good for 450 hp and 875 Nm. Power went to the rear wheels via a six-speed automatic gearbox. Price in China was a sweet 4.98 million yuan. The Arnage never sold very well on the Chinese market and these early examples are particularly rare.
A beautiful Audi RS6 Avant, seen in Beijing in 2018. The speedy wagon was brand new and it looked brilliant in a dark purple shade with matte gray detailing and black wheels.
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This is a super rare Yunbao YB2030 Nissan Patrol, seen on a car market in Beijing in 2016. The Yunbao YB2030 is basically a locally end-assembled fourth-generation Nissan Patrol Y60.
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A Jinma ‘classic wedding car’, seen in 2016 by our good friend James in Sanya, the main beach city on sunny Hainan Island. The pretty Jinma was in a reasonable shape for its age, painted in white with shiny gold trim and a Chinese flag on a pole on the bumper.
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A slightly overloaded tricycle, seen at night in central Beijing by our good friend Lao Wei, thank you for the pictures! The dapper tricycle is loaded to the absolute max, about 4 meters up and 3 wide. Hope it doesn’t need to pass too many tunnels. Note the Beijing-Hyundai Elantra taxi in the background on the left.
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