mdt115

many of you may have already know it, but check out this link to counterfeit cars from china. and the chinese automobile manufacturer Geely (jee-lee) will be coming out with rip-off sport compact looking cars of mercedes benz to be sold in the US in summer 2008. yikes.

http://paultan.org/archives/2004/12/05/china-pirates/





here's a cr-v counterfeit:

mdt115

here's a counterfeit of toyota's 4runner.

SIC1

Yup, China and Korea have built and manufactured very large x-ray type machines to duplicate the technology of other automakers and are fed into autocad. R & D couldn't be any easier.

mdt115

here's a counterfeit of the isuzu rodeo/honda passport.

the automaker is called jlangling and the model is called Landwind


pretty isn't it?

here's a shot of the Landwind during the crashtest in germany..


quote:

The results of the German ADAC test which is comparable to European NCAP safety standards in areas of passanger cabin protection was ZERO out of 5. It was so bad that even airbags were deemed useless. The passenger cabin completely collapsed on collision.


landwind crash test here

landwind crash test part 2

Landwind crash test from interior

Rrebel YO

what crap cars

mdt115

here's another counterfeit car.



hmmmm...

FuzzyLS BRO

holy..next thing you know they'll be selling them at pac mall o_O

Buff4Prez Yo

iTrader: (2)

wtf isn't there a law for ---- like that?

gsr rudebwoi

Hyundai does this all the time. I've noticed hyundai uses "styling cues" from the accord and jaguar.

Blue Dragon

^^ Its one thing to use styling cues, AKA the bangle trunk rip off that most car manufacturers are using now, but its another thing to copy the design almost in its entireity.

team_AMAZING

i guess it was only a matter of time. There should be some laws against that, i wonder how much they cost tho, but with such poor safety standards no matter how cheap they were i'd never risk getting them.

Solid GSR YO

send them back!! wow what pieces of ----

Kadafi

*edited - dont put racist comments man even if you're joking around**

PoST_PiMP

^^ :wtf:

I'd still buy one for half the price... so long as it's reliable. The BMW price tag would hurt more than the impact of the accident

STRTLGL

Considering that a lot of aftermarket spare parts are made in China this manufacturers buy them cheap and simply weld them together. This explains low prices and poor crash test results.

WildoutWhiteGSR

I'm seen it before. They're not allowed to be sold in North America I believe, for sure not Canada since the crash test ratings are so poor.

its me.. mario

WTF is up with that moronic comment??

dc24me

---- you.

PoST_PiMP

*****1 (chngk) Pronunciation Key
n. A narrow opening, such as a crack or fissure.
tr.v. chinked, *****·ing, ******

1. To make narrow openings in.
2. To fill narrow openings in.

Cracks are clowns?

-=GMAN=-

why the ---- are you tryin to pull a brett?

tdot2gteg

i was thiknign thats sick at first but woow that crash test looked real bad