Cars! Cars! Cars!

bd popeye said:

I'm not sure what type of car this is but I like it!

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A visitor looks at concept car BJ100 of Beijing Automotive Group at the 17th China Beijing International High-Tech Expo (CHITEC) in Beijing, capital of China, May 14, 2014. The annual technology expo kicked off Wednesday. (Xinhua/Wang Zhen)

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here is a little info I could find about this car:

Launched at the 2014 Beijing motor show, the BJ100 is a full-size crossover that combines traits of an SUV and coupe. It has a 2900mm wheelbase and is 4868mm long, 1993mm wide, and 1815mm high. BAIC (Beijing Auto) said the concept car, featuring suicide doors, got a hybrid powertrain but revealed no details of it.

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is its rear glass made of bubble?

Hongqi H7 for PLA. I wanna have one!







(The photo label itself) The first Hongqi rolled out in August 2, 1958.

Give me this one with a modern engine and transmission any day, the other one(Honqi H7) is nice, but looks too much like a modern Cadillac to me.

the other one(Honqi H7) is nice, but looks too much like a modern Cadillac to me.

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Looks more like a 2014 Chrysler 200 to me. Compare;



And the old Hongqi ,first time I've ever seen one, front end looks like a old '57 Studebaker Golden Hawk to me. Compare;

I am not surprised that you have never seen one pops or that on seeing it it reminded you of a Chrysler. Hongqi is a Chinese state owned car, as I understand it even the name means "Red Flag" as in the Red banner of the party. They were the first indigenous cars of China in what 1958 based on a 1955 Chrysler design. They were official cars given to Ranking communist party members and used for foreign dignitaries, today they build the Presidential Limo of the PRC. Here in the US we don't really have a equal as our car makers are still private companies, although the American Secret Service motorcade is custom built armored vehicles even they are built by a Chicago based private Limo builder. The Russians had a maker who was equivalent in Zil who still makes Russian armored vehicles but after Gorbichov they switched to Mercedes and BMW limos.

Equation said:

Give me this one with a modern engine and transmission any day, the other one(Honqi H7) is nice, but looks too much like a modern Cadillac to me.

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If I have a big garden, I'll put it in the middle of my garden and introduce it to everyone who visit my house. But to rock this on the roads? No, thanks!

SteelBird said:

If I have a big garden, I'll put it in the middle of my garden and introduce it to everyone who visit my house. But to rock this on the roads? No, thanks!

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Why not? I like the classic look.

TerraN_EmpirE said:

I am not surprised that you have never seen one pops or that on seeing it it reminded you of a Chrysler. Hongqi is a Chinese state owned car, as I understand it even the name means "Red Flag" as in the Red banner of the party. They were the first indigenous cars of China in what 1958 based on a 1955 Chrysler design.

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Based on a 1955 Chrysler??.. let's see..

1955 Chrysler New Yorker

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My apologies I rechecked my source on that. the 1955 Chrysler based design was the second model the 1959 C7A2

My Source

Gen one the C7A1 was a Simca Vedette body matted to a Mercedes-Benz 190SL engine

OK.. here's a '59 Chrysler 300.. I can see similarities.