A few days ago we went out for a drive and I took the Li Auto i6 onto the highway. At the toll plaza I still had to stop and take a paper ticket, like it was 2010. When I asked why, the answer was simple: the car’s built-in ETC had never been activated, and
I was out running errands the other day when I spotted one: a JMC Baodian, parked by the side of the road. And just like that, I was back in 2005. Because here’s the thing about this truck — in my town, between roughly 2000 and 2010, the JMC Baodian was the dream car of
I got a text message from the traffic police this week that genuinely surprised me. It said I’d been photographed failing to follow a traffic sign or lane marking — and I immediately knew what it was: I’d driven straight ahead from a right-turn lane. My mistake, caught by a camera. The message said the
Driving home from work the other day, I passed Garden Avenue and saw the Audi dealership being torn down. Sixteen years ago, when it opened, it was the first Audi 4S store our town had ever seen. A week earlier, the space had been turned into a NIO showroom for a while — and now
My friend just bought a new electric car, and he announced it with a straight face: “I’m becoming the Massage Parlor Emperor.” Then he showed me what he bought — a Cadillac. Not just any Cadillac. A Cadillac LYRIQ (锐歌), the brand’s first fully electric SUV. And I have to be honest: in our small
I was going out to dinner the other day when I spotted two cars parked next to each other: one orange, one blue. Nothing special at first glance. Then I looked closer and nearly laughed out loud — it was a 保时泰 (Baoshitai) and a 陆风 (Lufeng), sitting side by side like old friends. If
Saw this in our village the other day — a black Mercedes-Benz S500 4MATIC, parked in a tiny alley between two old houses. The car itself is not surprising anymore; you see nice ones in our county town sometimes. But the license plate stopped me: 浙G·88888. Five eights in a row. I had to take