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Hongqi L5 limousine debuts on the Beijing Auto Show
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It is jealousy。Jealousy is the word。Pure and simple。
Hongqi L7
Yes, they are incapable of everything, phones, cars and their women.
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I am sure they are with a compatible price tag though
Let me see if I can find some pix of special design of the Hongqi car doors that makes Hongqi a specialty
I have posted the same on a thread here on PDF before
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The Hongqi L5 is the most expensive Chinese car you can buy
I woke up in a new Hongqi
The trunklid script is familiar to any Chinese who ever had to get out of the way of a Party procession. Photo by FAW Hongqi.
China's oldest car company rolled out its first vehicle on Aug. 1, 1958; it was a chrome-lined black sedan designed -- like the pastiche of 1950s cars it resembled, including thePackard-esque Chaika -- to strike equal amounts of fear and inspiration into the revolutionaries. In Chinese, "Hongqi" in means "red flag," the most potent symbol of the Chinese Communist Party, making it a fitting name for a company that supplied the apparatchik. A symbol of power, a sphere of influence, a four-wheeled Great Leap Forward! Curiously enough, it took Nixon's 1972 visit for Mao Zedong (who finally swore off the Soviets and their ZIS-110s) to get into a Hongqi.
But by then, the die was cast. Hongqi was the official car of the Party, a vehicle spoken about in hushed tones. Even if the sphere of influence may be eroding, the glassy, gleaming red flag still stands tall and proud, defending its occupants against bourgeois paper tigers.
Today, you can ride around in your own Hongqi; in lieu of loyal service to the Party, you can provide something even more valuable: cash, and tons of it. How shamelessly bourgeois, you might say, and you'd be pretty damn right.
Credit: FAW Hongqi and ifeng
French President François Hollande recently rode in a Hongqi L5 and found it pretty cool.
Take a look at the above, the Hongqi L5. Under development for the last four years, it debuted at the Beijing auto show with a 5-million yuan sticker. To own China's most expensive car, you'll pay the U.S. equivalent of $801,624, which, as far as we can tell, is the most expensive car to carry one of those small, oval "Made in China" stickers. (Stick 'em on in bulk if it'll make you feel like you're getting your money's worth.) Naturally, somebody bought the first one right from the show floor.
Nailing 50 years' worth of luxury, its specifications are fittingly impressive. It digs into the pavement with three tons of intimidation. It is 20 feet long. There's a 6.0-liter V12 that produces around 400 hp and 405 lb-ft of torque. A six-speed automatic carries this power to all four wheels because the snow in Beijing arrives late but fast. It carries the upright slab-sidedness of not only its styling homage, the famous CA770, but also to various Kenmore products, the works of Mies van der Rohe, etc. The grille mimics the CA770 perfectly. You'd be tempted to put eyelashes on the big chrome headlights, but I wouldn't, comrade.
And you thought the Chinese couldn't do retro. Please. There's 8,000 years of history here, most of it manifested within the L5: celadon-jade door handles, hand-carved wood inlays with little clouds on them, perforated leather everything, a tablet center console--even a Bose sound system. The minimalistic interior looks like a comfy place from which to direct the invisible hand of faux-Marxism or engage inludicrous sex scandals. If the Hongqi L5 is derivative, as Western media sardonically paints all the efforts of China's nascent car industry, then it's derivative only to its past.
FAW Hongqi
Even the cool two-spoke steering wheel comes with a chrome horn ring. How's that for retro?
There's a word for this for all this lugg-jury: tuhao, which combines the words for "dirt" and "splendor" to form a wonderful, perfect word of the age: the Chinese definition of nouveau riche, the Asiatic equivalent of rap god braggadocio. I get money, money I got. Chinese luxury buyers have a homegrown inferiority complex. Perhaps the Hongqi L5 needs more gold. But maybe the Rolls-Royce Phantoms and Bentley Mulsanne Hybrids currently filling up Beijing's seven ring roads just lack the old-school feeling the Hongqi imparts, one of a Communist Party that could do no wrong, even when it did.
Read more: The $800,000 Hongqi L5 at the Beijing Auto Show - Autoweek
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I woke up in a new Hongqi
The trunklid script is familiar to any Chinese who ever had to get out of the way of a Party procession. Photo by FAW Hongqi.
China's oldest car company rolled out its first vehicle on Aug. 1, 1958; it was a chrome-lined black sedan designed -- like the pastiche of 1950s cars it resembled, including thePackard-esque Chaika -- to strike equal amounts of fear and inspiration into the revolutionaries. In Chinese, "Hongqi" in means "red flag," the most potent symbol of the Chinese Communist Party, making it a fitting name for a company that supplied the apparatchik. A symbol of power, a sphere of influence, a four-wheeled Great Leap Forward! Curiously enough, it took Nixon's 1972 visit for Mao Zedong (who finally swore off the Soviets and their ZIS-110s) to get into a Hongqi.
But by then, the die was cast. Hongqi was the official car of the Party, a vehicle spoken about in hushed tones. Even if the sphere of influence may be eroding, the glassy, gleaming red flag still stands tall and proud, defending its occupants against bourgeois paper tigers.
Today, you can ride around in your own Hongqi; in lieu of loyal service to the Party, you can provide something even more valuable: cash, and tons of it. How shamelessly bourgeois, you might say, and you'd be pretty damn right.
Credit: FAW Hongqi and ifeng
French President François Hollande recently rode in a Hongqi L5 and found it pretty cool.
Take a look at the above, the Hongqi L5. Under development for the last four years, it debuted at the Beijing auto show with a 5-million yuan sticker. To own China's most expensive car, you'll pay the U.S. equivalent of $801,624, which, as far as we can tell, is the most expensive car to carry one of those small, oval "Made in China" stickers. (Stick 'em on in bulk if it'll make you feel like you're getting your money's worth.) Naturally, somebody bought the first one right from the show floor.
Nailing 50 years' worth of luxury, its specifications are fittingly impressive. It digs into the pavement with three tons of intimidation. It is 20 feet long. There's a 6.0-liter V12 that produces around 400 hp and 405 lb-ft of torque. A six-speed automatic carries this power to all four wheels because the snow in Beijing arrives late but fast. It carries the upright slab-sidedness of not only its styling homage, the famous CA770, but also to various Kenmore products, the works of Mies van der Rohe, etc. The grille mimics the CA770 perfectly. You'd be tempted to put eyelashes on the big chrome headlights, but I wouldn't, comrade.
And you thought the Chinese couldn't do retro. Please. There's 8,000 years of history here, most of it manifested within the L5: celadon-jade door handles, hand-carved wood inlays with little clouds on them, perforated leather everything, a tablet center console--even a Bose sound system. The minimalistic interior looks like a comfy place from which to direct the invisible hand of faux-Marxism or engage inludicrous sex scandals. If the Hongqi L5 is derivative, as Western media sardonically paints all the efforts of China's nascent car industry, then it's derivative only to its past.
FAW HongqiEven the cool two-spoke steering wheel comes with a chrome horn ring. How's that for retro?
There's a word for this for all this lugg-jury: tuhao, which combines the words for "dirt" and "splendor" to form a wonderful, perfect word of the age: the Chinese definition of nouveau riche, the Asiatic equivalent of rap god braggadocio. I get money, money I got. Chinese luxury buyers have a homegrown inferiority complex. Perhaps the Hongqi L5 needs more gold. But maybe the Rolls-Royce Phantoms and Bentley Mulsanne Hybrids currently filling up Beijing's seven ring roads just lack the old-school feeling the Hongqi imparts, one of a Communist Party that could do no wrong, even when it did.
Read more: The $800,000 Hongqi L5 at the Beijing Auto Show - Autoweek
Follow us: @AutoweekUSA on Twitter | AutoweekUSA on Facebook
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This design of car door opening provides for convenience as well as protection for people in the car during exchanges of gun fires on dangerous occasions such as an ambush. It also helps
movements of persons between front and rear compartments during such hostile occasion
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That's a sexy car.. No doubt..
