Have you ever seen a dragon? It's not the dragon that serves you, it's the real Chinese dragon.
It is said that this thing is haunted by the clouds, who said that it has been on the news for a long time, but there are so few people, not only have they seen, but even used the dragon as a mount, this dragon is called Geely Chinese Dragon, this name may not be familiar to everyone, but you must have heard of its predecessors: Geely Beauty Leopard. 
In China, these two cars are like a totem, in every sense, the beauty leopard and the Chinese dragon are the originators of Chinese sports cars, what NIO EP9, Haobo SSR, and even BYD look up to U9, you have to call your grandfather. This year happens to be the Year of the Dragon, and on the second floor of our issue, we will talk about the sports car story of the beauty leopard and the Chinese dragon. 
Hello everyone, I'm Master Huang, fasten your seatbelt and get your hand cards, one-stop service on the second floor, and pick up customers immediately. Thanks to the new forces, today's Internet has become a picture of prosperity that seems to have a car, worth millions at every turn, and everyone knows that Chinese are quite late in contact with cars, and even for the vast majority of people, cars are still a luxury, and sports cars are luxuries among luxuries. 
The first time Chinese came into contact with sports cars was in the newspapers in 1992, a man in a suit and holding a big brother standing in front of Tiananmen Square occupied the front page, his name is Li Xiaohua, the first generation of the richest man in the capital rumored in the rivers and lakes, behind him is he just spent 13Bought for $8.88 million, China's first Ferrari sports car with license plate number Beijing A00001. 
How to understand this**? Let's put it this way, when Wang Chuanfu founded BYD three years later, the start-up capital was only 2.5 million yuan, and he could only buy 3 Ferraris. 
For most Chinese at that time, such an expensive car that could only seat two people was a waste of money. But for others, it's planting a seed in their hearts: it's a sports car! Around 2000, this seed gradually blossomed and bore fruit, and the Hyundai Coolpad, a civilian sports car from South Korea, entered the Chinese market. 
Although it was changed by Elantra Magic, it was an import at the beginning, and the ** of two or three hundred thousand is not cheap, but the threshold for everyone to drive a sports car is much lower, and the young man with a little money drives this thing to take his sister for a walk, which is more popular than driving his father's Audi out. Later, whenever an independent brand came out with a sports car, this Hyundai Coolpad would be pulled out for comparison, and its first opponent was Geely. 
For Geely, 2001 is a special year enough, on November 9, Li Shufu finally got the birth permit of his heart, Geely finally became the first private car company that can legally build cars, and the name of Brother Shu who dares to think and dare to do is getting louder and louder. 
And at the Shanghai Auto Show half a year ago, Geely did something even more out of the ordinary: they released a sports car. Yes, in a country where private cars have just begun to be popularized, companies that have just begun to imitate other people's cars suddenly said that they want to build sports cars, which is as unreliable as the other party said "prepare for the public examination" on a blind date, but Geely just did it, and in January 2003, they even mass-produced this car, which is the famous beauty leopard. The name is as illogical as Equation Leopard, and the only connection between the three words is the 2004 emergency syrup advertisement
In addition, the beauty leopard has many names, such as mybo on the steering wheel, which you can understand as English: my bo, which can also be understood as Northeast dialect, American silver leopard, in some places, it is also called gilly bl, beauty leopard, beautiful leopard.
Geely's definition of this car at that time was similar to Mazda MX5, and they planned to make a more suitable for the physique of Chinese babies, the first small sports car for young people, but the technology was limited, and it was still in a state of four wheels and a sofa, so the Beauty Leopard was also a car without logic.
For example, this shape, Geely and South Korea's Daewoo had a bad relationship, and the two sides cooperated on many models, and the beauty leopard was designed with Daewoo's help. But anyone with a discerning eye can see that this car is very similar to the taste of Japanese sports cars in the last century, and the head and tail design even basically copied the old Toyota Supra, and the side followed the swooping attitude of low front and high back, especially the buttocks, which were warped enough to hold up a bottle of soda.
However, limited by the size of the body, the final result is similar to 16:9** forcibly changed to 4:3, short and bloated, and a huge car logo is added, which is very in line with the characteristics of the independent brand that did not know how to use it, and even this design can still find a successor until the first two years: Leap S01.
But think about the selling price of sixty or seventy thousand, this is the same as the service of supporting a big tree in the park, people don't think you're poor, do you still think people are out of shape? Long live understanding. What is less like a sports car than the appearance is the configuration of the Beauty Leopard. At that time, Geely did not have the ability to do positive research and development, so its models were basically imitations, and the beauty leopard was also, the chassis was born from its own Geely Meiri, which was a copy of Xiali, and the power was carried in the early 1The 3L Toyota 8A engine is also the same model as the Xiali 2000 and the Geely own 1 that was replaced after 2004The 5L engine can burst out with up to 94 horsepower, which is comparable to the road lightning Lexus ES, but it is still born from the Toyota 8A, rounded off, the beauty leopard is about equal to Xiali.
So the young men of the year drove a beautiful leopard with a girl, and they were most afraid of encountering a Jetta overtaking your car, jump on it, you really can't run, can you imagine Xiali and Jetta drag racing? Don't jump, let's be a sports car, how faceless, in the end, there is a high probability that you can only open the *** in the car and enjoy a small movie with the girl to relieve the embarrassment.
This is almost the first model equipped with *** in the year, in addition, you can also choose to install a car refrigerator, electric sunroof, and even car **, Geely is like an old man during the New Year, all the things he thinks are good are piled on the beauty leopard, don't care if it's good or not, or that sentence, only sell sixty or seventy thousand, what else do you want a bicycle. So in that era, although the beauty leopard did not sell much, the title of "the first sports car of its own brand" was solid, and it had a great weight in the hearts of fans, and even later became the permanent collection of the National Museum.
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