Gallery: The cars with the dragon tattoo

Are you a major carmaker? Feeling a little left out of burgeoning Chinese car market? Follow Top Gear's simple four-step plan and build yourself a limited-edition special with the legs-apart confidence for a road trip up the Silk Road!

1. Take one of your cars
2. Paint some bits gold
3. Put dragons on it
4. Give it a Chinese name

Here are just some manufacturers that have been applying this cunning plan to their current lineup...

It started life as a Rubicon Unlimited, and pretty much ended as one as well. Beyond the usual Jeep stuff, there's blacked out everything, some bronze-gold dragon stickers, a carbon-fiber engine cover and some bronze-gold stuff inside.

It's built to commemorate the Year of the Dragon, has some gold stuff and its moniker translates as "Golden Dragon In The Wind". In fine Audi tradition, it's targeted at a slightly obscure extreme sport, this time kite surfers - there are two roof-mounted carbon fibre reinforced polymer boards, a pouch for wet clothes, "Liuli Yellow" (read: GOLD) paint outside and some off-road add-ons found in the Ingolstadt parts bin. There's also yellow stitching indoors.

Developed with the help of Koniglice Porzellan Manufaktur (them that worked with the French manufacturer glueing on porcelain bits to its Grand Sport L'Or Blanc), Bugatti's added a dragon-emblazoned chinaware fuel filler cap, wheel inserts, silk carpets and a spurious slab between the seats. We await next year's $2593 billion ‘Ming Porcelain' one-off with interest.

In no way related to the 11 new dealerships Aston plans to open in China, the Brit company's peddling three different China-market specials, totaling a production run of 88 (eight's a lucky number in China). The first is this, which gets special paint "to chime with traditional Chinese art and imagery", a 24-carat gold Aston badge and Ming-style dragon stitching on the seat.

More of the same from this special - dragons on seats, special paint, bling badges, and fancy banding on the wood dashboard.

We don't have pics of the Virage coupe, but we'll help you picture it: it's like a normal Virage coupe with special paint (gold is included, naturally), dragons on the headrests and gold badges.

This celebrates the Italian company's 20th anniversary in the Chinese market. It has a gold dragon on the bonnet, gold wheels, and a gold-and-black racing stripe. The ‘Start' button's also been replaced with the Chinese script for, erm ‘Start'. Only 20 will be built.

Bit of an anomaly, this one. Bentley, along with in-house coachbuilders, Mulliner - creators of the State Limousine presented to Queen Elizabeth II in 2002 - are relying on the Anglophile set to buy the Mulsanne Diamond Jubilee, which celebrates Queen Liz II's birthday.

China's the company's biggest market, so there are some concessions to what's perceived as local taste, like bespoke embroidery to all four headrests using gold stitching, veneered picnic tables with royal carriages on and some scatter cushions.

It means 'movement upon clouds', it's a petrol-electric hybrid concept fathomed by Toyota's China R&D thinktank in Changshu, and it has a great wall of script on the side.