About China's Coolest Cars
This blue beauty is a Honda Fit Saloon, with black license plates, as seen in the far west of the Chinese capital Beijing. The Fit was in fine shape for its age. The paint was slightly fading, but I didn’t see any rust or busts, and it still had the original wheel covers.
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A pretty Honda Accord sedan, as seen in the Chinese capital Beijing back in 2014. The Honda was in fine shape. It was painted white, a relatively rare color for an Accord of this age in China. Most of them are black, some are silver, and very few are white.
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A Honda Odyssey police car, seen in Beijing in 2010. However, it doesn’t belong to the local police force. According to the first character of the license plate, this police vehicle hailed from Hubei Province.
The character is 鄂, or ‘È’, is an ancient alternative name for Hubei. Now that we are into characters anyway, let’s do the rest as well: the red character on the right side of the plate is 警 (jing), short for 警察 (jingcha), which means police, and that’s on the bonnet as well. On the side is 公安 (gong’an), and that means public security. This is a general term used by various police forces.
The Honda Odyssey MPV is somewhat of an odd choice for a police car. The third-generation Odyssey was made in China from 2005 until 2009 by the Guangzhou-Honda joint venture, the successor of the second generation Odyssey. The China-spec Odyssey was powered by a 2.4 liter four-cylinder petrol engine with an output of 160 hp and 218 Nm, good for a 190 hp top speed. Just enough to catch some bad guys in, for example, an old Civic.
A Guangzhou-Honda Odyssey MPV, seen in Beijing in 2016, with Liaoning Province license plates. The good Honda was in a great shape, painted in a classy dark green, with the original wheel covers still on the car.
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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 Accord that was made in China. Production started in 1999 at Guangzhou-Honda.
