Posted on 04/25/2014 8:03:20 PM PDT by eldoradude
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 the Packard-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.
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The wheels are fake! Hell, most of the picture is,for that matter...
Or a Hindustan Motors “Ambassador”, which at least has more class than that thing does.
Insurance would cost as much as the car. LOL!
Beautiful. A true work of art.
LOL
I had an opportunity to drive different Chinese cars dating back to 1980s and I can say that the quality is improving really fast. Just 10 years ago they were junks and now many domestic makers offers a late 1990s huyndai quality. Give them another decade to outclass GM.
Clearly the Chinese version of “The Homer”.
I thought you were kidding. Dang.
The sooner the better.
Gubmint Motors is irreparably tainted by the illegality of the way in which its bankruptcy was handled. It needs to fail, and damn whomever suffers!
Looks similar to the old Jags.
I never kid, you should know that!
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