how can the chinese get away with this?

[roosterjuicer]

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Seriously these rip-offs are rediculous. i remember being pretty pissed when i saw hyundai biting off mercedes a few years ago but this is waaay worse. it should be illegal (not that china would follow the law anyway)

[faksta]

It's pointless. I mean suing them. GM did it already, and they changed their name from vhaghVHIEJBGF to vcaejfgukEB and remained producing the same car again IIRC.

[Ferrer]

I agree some chinese cars are (badly made) copies. But some are suprisingly good looking too I must say.

However some have been designed by italian styling houses so that probably explains it.

[silverhawk]

there is an upside to all this. despite being exact replicas of other cars, the build quality and finishing of these cars is really good. Chinese can make good cars if the put their mind to it. Other manufacturers can shift their productions to China or merge with chinese manufacturers.

[faksta]

Who cares about quality when their crash tests are such awful?

[Suka]

The fact of the matter is that they are not exact replicas. There is nothing they can do. Personally i don't see anything wrong with it anyway. Who are they hurting?
It would be like Sony suing Sanyo for having a name slightly similar.

[wwgkd]

This is a little more than slightly similar, though. It's not like Sony and Sanyo, it's more like Sony and sony. I figure if they want to be successful in a world market they have to do more than just this, so eventually when they get going I expect them to switch to their own work. It's kind of like India and reverse engineering pharmaceuticals. It worked fine when sold only in India, but once they wanted to sell them in a broader market they had to knock it off and become legit.

[Cotterik]

their cars look like the cheap toy version of the real thing. Which ironically is what most of their economy is built upon doing in the first place The only people who are losing out are the chinese. Thank god they make good food

[nightwind]

Thanks for the food comment haha...
Well, have you seen the highlights from the Beijing 2008 Autoshow?

Several of them look pretty promising actually. Suprised me.

[syko]

It can be pretty blatant like Guangzhou Honda's Linian concept compared to the new Feista.

[nightwind]

It can be pretty blatant like Guangzhou Honda's Linian concept compared to the new Feista.

Well, that is pretty much as much Honda's car as it is Guangzhou's car.

The new Roewe 550 and the Geely Tiger both look rather promising though

[Ferrer]

Well, that is pretty much as much Honda's car as it is Guangzhou's car.

The new Roewe 550 and the Geely Tiger both look rather promising though

I've read somewhere that apparently the 550 was already under development at Rover before the chinese takeover.

[faksta]

Tiger is a coupe, right? aka Geely GT

[Aero]

If you thought the final product was bad look at what they're doing with "their" renderings.
HongQi announces new photochopped Lincoln MKT crossover! - Autoblog

[faksta]

It will never ever stop...