The Most Expensive Chinese Car You Can Buy

The Most Expensive Chinese Car You Can Buy, The luxurious Hongqi L5 may look old school, but itll cost you a decidedly modern six figures., Chinas 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. A symbol of power, a sphere of influence, a four-wheeled Great Leap Forward! Curiously enough, it took Nixons 1972 visit for Mao Zedong (who finally swore off the Soviets and their ZIS-110s) to get into a Hongqi.Continue Reading...