Strip the Hongqi H7 back to its specification sheet and the character is already there: Petrol engine, 138 kW (1.8 . Hongqi built from 2013 to 2026, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market.
The background
The Hongqi H7 is a executive sedan produced by Chinese automobile manufacturer Hongqi, a subsidiary of FAW Group. It is the successor to the Hongqi HQ3 built between 2006 and 2010.
The engineering
Power comes from Petrol engine; 138 kW (1.8  is the published figure; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 1800-1805 kg. Work it out per tonne and you get about 77 horsepower — unhurried — enough for the job, not for the bragging. It shifts through a 6-speed automatic. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 2970 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Hongqi Shengshi; its successor was the Hongqi H7 (second generation) / Hongqi EH7 (Electric version); assembly was at Changchun, Jilin, China. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the BYD M3 DM, the Lexus NX, the Opel Mokka — show what else the money bought that year. Its Hongqi stablemates include the Hongqi and the Hongqi 774.