Seen at the Worker’s Stadium in Beijing, home of the Beijing Guoan Football Club, the strongest team in the capital. This fine lime-green Citroen C2 is clearly a Guoan fan, it is painted in the team’s colors with a large logo on the ‘carbon fiber’ bonnet. Dedication, we dig.

The C1 is otherwise sexed up with a very sporty body-kit, twin exhaust pipes, a roof spoiler, blacked-out alloys and low profile tires. If is was allowed on the field the club wouldn’t lose any game, anymore. The Citroen C2 is a China-only Citroen based on the Peugeot 207. Both cars are made in China by the Dongfeng-PSA joint venture. Power comes from a 1.4 or a 1.6, mated to a 5-speed manual or 4-speed automatic. Price of the current China-made C2 starts at 70.800 yuan and ends at 103.800 yuan.

Beijing Guoan (website), aka FC Guoan, was established under its current name in 1992. The club however is much older than that. Its predecessor North China Team was born in 1952, in 1956 it changed its name to Beijing Football Club. Beijing Guoan plays in Jia A, the highest league in the Chinese national football competition. Current trainer is Jaime Pacheco from Portugal. More on Wikipedia.

Bling in Beijing! Seen yesterday evening on a parking lot in front of a kareoke bar, a very shiny Lamborghini Gallardo. The gold was painted, no wrapping here, and it was in fact so shiny I saw it beaming from 200 meters afar.

China will likely become Lamborghini’s biggest market this year. The Murcielago sold like hot rice, the Aventador will do even better, the Urus SUV will go like super stink but it is the Gallardo that has constantly been Lamborghini’s best-seller over all these years.

China loves the Gallardo, but a standard car ain’t good enough, it needs to show off more! We got a fine collection by now: pink,  another pink, lime-green, one  in gold, one purple, another purple and because it looks so good a standard-orange Spyder Performante..

Fantastic machine, approved!

Here we have a very nice sportsmachine, seen in Beijing by reader Ali Khalili (thank you for the pics!). This is the incredible BMW Z8, by far the most beautiful roadster BMW has ever made. Look at those front tires!, this monster has been used…

BMW never officially sold the Z8 on the Chinese car market so how this mad blue vehicle got into China is not sure. Most of these ‘old’ exotics however arrive via the grey circuit from the American West Coast.

The BMW Z8 was made from 1999 until 2003, it was powered by a 4.9 liter V8 that pooped out 400hp and 500nm, good for an unlimited 270km/h top speed and 0-100 was gone in 4.7 seconds. The Z8 was designed by none other than Henrik Fisker who is now busy with the electric Karma which by la way hasn’t been seen near China yet. This particular Z8 on pics has been sexed up a bit with huge 20inch wheels and BBS alloys. Loox good.

So much style, so much power. See what they got now…

I love the smell of electric cars in the morning! Here we have a very special electric mini sportscar, seen by reader Lao Wei (thank you!) in southern Beijing. This is the Yangzhou Kaiersimai TM-12 EV Sportscar. In Chinese it is advertised as: Diandongxiaopaoche (电动小跑车), or Small Electric Race Car. Let’s see how fast it is!

Yangzhou Kaiersimai is based in the great city of Yangzhou in Jiangsu Province. They make all sorts of small electric vehicles but the TM-12 is by far the best. The TM-12 comes as a convertible with a folding top, as a mini pickup truck and as the coupe-version on these pics.

Now, top speed: 50 (fifty) km/h. That is slightly disappointing indeed. Range however is 120km/h and that ain’t bad for such a small vehicle. Even better, is has rear wheel drive! Drifting with an EV was never so possible. It comes with two electric motors each pooping out 4.2kw. Size: 3550/1550/1350, wheelbase is 2290. It seats only two, no room for the kid here! The body is made from glass fiber reinforced plastic which won’t rust but will break. Be careful then when drifting inside town…

The convertible.

The pickup. More pics of all TM-12′s here.

Info via: Alibaba, Yzkesm.

Here we have a slightly overloaded truck, seen on the outskirts of Beijing by reader Kael. This way of loading a truck is very much forbidden in the capital but the further from the center you get the less police cares.

Although loaded high and wide this truck is not too heavy since most of freight consist of empty plastic bottles going to a recycling factory. Zillions of trucks with all kinda recycle-goods daily ride on Beijing’s street, often loaded like crazy, but this one is by far the best I’ve ever seen.

Parked next to a hotel not far from my home in Beijing, this is the mad Wald Mercedes-Benz C-class Black Bison Edition. Good name! Wald is a tuner from Japan, doing everything from Rolls-Royce to Nissan. The Black Bison Edition was born in 2008 and is based 0n the C63 AMG.

Wald didn’t change the engine, they thought 480hp enough, but added crap loads if extra plastic and carbon-fiber parts, including a massive DTM-style wing on the back. The result is very impressive, this machines screams speed and sure the limiter is gone so top speed should be some 280km/h.

How this brilliant piece of Japanese tuning art came landed in Beijing is not sure, Wald doesn’t have any dealers on the Chinese mainland yet. They have one in Hong Kong but cars there drive on the wrong side of the road. The owner probably ordered it in Japan directly which must have been very expensive, but heck that wing is worth all da money in the world!

How to make a fine Porsche 911 very ugly? China has the answer: wrap a foam-based body kit around it, and a weird sorta wing. Foam-based body kits are very popular in China for customizing cheap cars, like Chery’s and such, but this is the first time I’ve seen the stuff applied on a Porsche. Poor car lives in Tianhe District in the great city of Guangzhou.

A fantastic car seen in the Sanlitun bar district in Beijing. This is the mighty Lexus LFA in red and only the second LFA we saw in China up until now. The other one, in the same red paint, lives somewhere in the great city of Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province.

The Lexus LFA might be a pretty car but this pretty comes with a not-so pretty price: 5.988.000 yuan or 912.000 dollar after tax. The government will be really happy of you buy one like this, and so will the dealer… Powerrrr: 4.8 liter V10 that burbles up 560hp and 460nm. Top speed is 326km/h and 0-1000 is gone in 3.7 seconds, fast enough to leave the tax-bureau in da dust.

A very sleek Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren in matte-black, seen by a reader (thanks!) in downtown Shanghai. The stealthy scheme does the mighty machine many a favor, it is now even more a low flying and extremely dangerous airmachine, ready to kill…

The SLR was sold in China for just a few years but it wasn’t a hit, just some 15 made it to the Chinese car market. Price did not help, 7 million yuan after taxes, that is 1.1 million USD. Power however, was very good. A 5.4 liter supercharged V8, pumping out 617hp and 780nm, a top speed of 327km/h and a 0-100 in 3.4 seconds. Stealthy car on pics will likely be a bit faster again…

A very fine find here in Beijing. This is the Chevrolet Cruze Transformers Edition, it was launched on the China car market in July 2011, just before the 3th Transformers movie arrived in Chinese cinema’s. The Transformer franchise is extremely popular in China, especially one Bumblebee, and GM wanted to cash in.

The Chevrolet Cruze Transformers Edition came with a special Bumblebee-paintjob, Transformer-badges all over and a special Bumblebeed interior. Sadly the Transformers-Cruze didn’t become the hit GM expected, Chinese car buyers either made their Bumblebee-cars themselves or they wanted the real thing, the Transformers-Camaro! Fortunately GM brought just that to the Chinese market in December 2011.