"Made in China" Have they no shame!?

[thirdlegstump]

Well what do you expect from a struggling 3rd world country?

 

[dennilfloss]

Originally posted by: JLGatsby
Dude seriously that's no excuse. Anyone who drives on the road sees these cars every day.

Well, I no longer drive and I rarely look at cars when I walk around except to make sure I don't get run over.

 

[bctbct]

wtf they only copied the ugly ones?

 

[AnyMal]

Chinese stealing intellectual property???!!!! No waaaaayyy!

 

[DivideBYZero]

Third car is a Fiat Panda knock off.

Picture Evidence.

 

[dds14u]

Originally posted by: AaronB
This is hardly new. See the following links and note that there are many more examples to be found:

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2

3

ACKK Those Mercedes ripoffs are the WORST....

 

[Mucho]

Originally posted by: Beachboy
Well, Scion stopped making the distinctive looking box so it's their loss.

The Chinese are all about knockoffs anyway. They let others do the engineering then they copy it. Some would say lazy, others would say shrewd.

Thats what they use to say about Japan, give them some time to catch up.

 

[KDOG]

Unfortunatly, this is par for the course. As some of you may know, I'm the resident high-end flashlight geek here. Heres' a chinese copy of an American companies design.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: JLGatsby

Originally posted by: dennilfloss
So, I'm not up on post-1980 cars, which ones have they copied?

Dude seriously that's no excuse. Anyone who drives on the road sees these cars every day.

I appears they're copying Toyota and Scion (also Toyota). You've never seen those big boxy things driving around? Looks like a cardboard box on a skateboard?

I've never seen a Yaris on the road. I think that the people who bought them are too embarrassed to actually drive them around.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Originally posted by: JLGatsby
I bet it costs half as much.

I bet it's not even close to 1/4 as good. And that's missing a pretty damn low target.

 

[Ronstang]

Originally posted by: JLGatsby
I bet it costs half as much.

Yeah, and a tenth the quality. You do the math.

 

[intogamer]

Put some wheeels on that Benz and you're go to GOGOOGO

 

[DeeKnow]

Originally posted by: Sukhoi
What's interesting is they're doing this even though Toyota has a manufacturing and sales base in China already. I could see this happening if Toyota wasn't there, but they are. The legal department is probably going to be quite busy soon.

And for a little piece of trivia, the guy that started Toyota was actually Chinese. He wasn't Japanese.

I don't think the Chinese give a rat's-ass about any legal department.
The tens of millions of americans who will buy their products is their legal defence.

 

[Stumps]

they are probably still better quality than most american cars

 

[otispunkmeyer]

im sure toyota will have something to say on the fron of that yaris/corrola a-like the front grill is almost exactly the same as toyota's new yaris with the big button nose and the corresponding semi-circular curve at the bottom. looks like they bred a yaris verso with a renault scienic


the orange car is pretty much a shameful copy of the fiat panda 4x4 with hints of suzuki SX4

 

[Jahee]

Originally posted by: Vegitto
The third is a Renault knock-off.. I don't know what model. Maybe a Mégane..

Renault Megane?

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: DeeKnow

Originally posted by: Sukhoi
What's interesting is they're doing this even though Toyota has a manufacturing and sales base in China already. I could see this happening if Toyota wasn't there, but they are. The legal department is probably going to be quite busy soon.

And for a little piece of trivia, the guy that started Toyota was actually Chinese. He wasn't Japanese.

I don't think the Chinese give a rat's-ass about any legal department.
The tens of millions of americans who will buy their products is their legal defence.

they dont

they even CE mark steel sections/columns/rails when in actual fact they have no legal right to put the mark on the steel since they haven't got the inspectors in to give the accreditation. but they dont care..... its very probably good steel, probably better than what we make (company i work for) but you know, they technically arent allowed to CE stamp their steel (CE stamp is a Quality assurance type measure)

 

[otispunkmeyer]

LOL scroll down to one of GMAR's posts..... thats the worst hyundai coupe (tiburon for US) jobs ive ever seen lol looks like something that should be in a max power mag

 

[otispunkmeyer]

maybe the chinese gov jus doesnt want foreign cars to be sold so theyre all getting rebadged?

theres a merc CL/CLK in that thread too by a company called BYD (less thats the cars name) and basically its just a merc CL with a different badge

and further down.... nissan pick up with different badges. i think that must be the case, so they get sold under a home brand and keep the chinese in the dark about whats really out there.

im expectin a GWM veyron rip off soon....

 

[otispunkmeyer]

oh apparently some of the cars are made under license

the first two are made under license with toyota, and the BMW 5 series rip of was actually co developed with BMW and uses a mitsubishi drive train made under licence. that car was also styled by ital design...... just goes to show you can polish a turd.

BMW actually own that company i believe so its no wonder it comes out lookin 5 series ish.

seems all they are doing is simply copying/making under licence so that they can make as much money as quickly as possible. starting a car firm from scratch and making fresh products from scratch that are all desgined and built in house would be to expensive and too slow.

they'll do this instead until maybe they get enough profits to have ago at something original.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: Jahee

Originally posted by: Vegitto
The third is a Renault knock-off.. I don't know what model. Maybe a Mégane..

Renault Megane?

if he means the orange car (3rd down in the 1st post) then he will mean the renault Modus.

eitherway that orange thing is a cross between the Nissan Note and fiat panda

 

[StrangerGuy]

Lol China doesn't even need fight the US using military might....Just simply stopping exports to the US will make it cry for mercy.

 

[Nerva]

As hilarious as I find the it that China is in such a great situation that they have the traditional superpowers by the nads, I also find it hilarious that ALL world auto companies are breaking down doors to get INTO that market... by any means necessary... including passing on their Product and Process talents through the "joint" ventures where the Chinese hold majority stake.

They are ALL cutting their own long term throats for short term gains because they fear each other getting a lead in China. Stupid. China is smart... lapping up all this attention and writing awsome contracts and learning everything they can.

That the other countries don't just band together and force China to play by the rules is hilarious. But then... these same countries also made up their own rules at the point of a rifle or canon a century or so ago... towards countries just like this.

What goes around comes around.

thought this quote on the other site pretty much sums up my sentiments.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: thescreensavers
I Will never get a chines car b/c of this

cockinhell....

the dash board literally obliterated the driver

 

[apac]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer

Originally posted by: thescreensavers
I Will never get a chines car b/c of this

cockinhell....

the dash board literally obliterated the driver

I actually yelled "jesus!" watching that. I like how the airbag deploys and then the entire steering column bashes the dummy's face in.