Beijing Motor Show

Cars of the Beijing Motor Show

BAIC (Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co Ltd) is apparently the Maybach of China. The C90L shown in Beijing is powered by a 6-liter V-12, the better to move this 5.2 meters (17 feet) of rolling luxury.

Great Wall's Haval E comes complete with the obligatory scissor doors that designers have used to denote concept cars for decades. The Haval E is a small SUV with a 242-hp hybrid motor that Great Wall claims can run on electric only for 50 miles and gets the car from zero to 60 mph in under 8 seconds.

The E50, slated for production later this year, in an electric car with a claimed 118-mile range.

In Russia, the Lifan 320 is known as the Lifan Smiley. The car won't likely ever be sold in the U.S. or U.K. markets due to the fact that it blatantly rips off the Mini Cooper's design.

The apparent result of a one-night stand between a London taxi and a Bentley EXP 9F, Geely's Englon SC7 is one cartoonish beast. Fresh on the stand this year was a sedan version of the Englon called the SC7-RS, which we can only hope will forever remain a concept car.

This two-door coupe, which will soon enter production, uses a 2-liter engine to drive 162 horsepower and 160 foot-pounds of torque to its real wheels -- through either 6-speed manual or dual-clutch automatic transmission.

We'll go ahead and give this one the "Most Likely to Succeed in America" award. Following on the heels of last year's MG6, the MG Icon is a compact SUV from the British brand (now under Chinese ownership) most Americans remember as fun and affordable (if unreliable) sports cars. The Icon captures MG's good qualities, and modernizes them in the form of a potentially serious competitor in the popular small-SUV market. Its design owes its success to the fact that it's from MG's studio in the UK.

CH-Auto Lithia: This electric sports car is a prototype dreamed up by the research and development company CH-Auto, which claims its concept would have a range of 150 kilometers, or 93 miles.

Forget bumper-to-bumper traffic; Chery's @ant concept illustrates what bumper-IN-bumper traffic might look like. The @ant is basically every car enthusiast's worst nightmare: automobiles that hook together to form chains on the road. Like ants.

Honda Concept C

Denza, the first concept car from Daimler and BYD's recent joint venture, is all electric. Unfortunately, that's all the company was willing to say, which indicates that they're nowhere near ready for production.

First seen in Geneva earlier this year and slated for production in some parts of the world, the SsangYong XIV2 crossover uses a 1.6-liter engine to generate 123 hp and 127 g/km of CO2.

Beijing Motor Show