Chinese car thread, including other auto ripoffs/copies

[code85]

Oh you think Hyundai is bad look at this chinese car company..

LOOK FAMILIAR? This car has a whopping 103hp OMGBBQ!! AWESOMO POWA!!
http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/1710/5b75dfrontgf8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/8656/rearmg2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

DIRECT COPY FROM THESE MODELS.

http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/4604/5b25dtorrentsj7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/8418/rx350vt1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[VorteC]

^oh now i see it. damn hahahahah

[ChinchillaX]

How are these companies getting away with this?
here is the Chery QQ and the Chevy Matiz, the QQ is a rip off of the Chevy. How they get away it is hard to say. Considering the Chinese gov't requires foreign automakers to setup joint ventures with local Chinese companies to build cars, otherwise they face high tarriffs on their imported cars. Many automakers have setup manufacturing in China, but at the same time given the evil CCP gov't rights to design and blueprints to cars, which local chinese automakers can copy. This way they can improve on theirs.

http://autoprofi.ua/img/avto_year/chevrolet_matiz.jpg

QQ

[ChinchillaX]

Since that Hyundai thread had some pics of chinese copycat cars, here is a specific thread for this topic. Feel free to post cars from China. Whether unique or a ripoff of a Honda, GM, or BMW, post them here.

[ChinchillaX]

here is another link that can be added to this thread.

Chinese Toyota RAV4 clone!

http://www.tsxclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7000&highlight=rav4

[code85]

http://www.weblogsinc.com/common/images/7707137613747804.JPG?0.15970836148976936

[code85]

http://static.paultan.org/chinashit_geelymerie1.jpg
http://static.paultan.org/chinashit_geelymerie2.jpg
http://static.paultan.org/chinashit_geelymerie3.jpg

13" rims anyone?

[l7h8626]

lol just watched a HK movie, A貨B貨 lol
talking about replica stuff haha.

[bernardtamhk]

to be fair, there are also legit brands where the foreign carmaker (i.e. merc, vw, audi, honda, toyota) has a jv with a chinese company to produce local market equivalent, but under a separate car name+logo. Hence not all ripoffs.

[trevorr]

Not to mention Gm is the biggest auto maker in China- hence the similarities with some Gm products