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Old 04-19-09, 08:04 AM
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And the news just keeps rolling in from China and the Shanghai Auto Show that runs from April 20 to 28. Roewe, which if you still haven't heard, is SAIC's premium auto brand that owns the tooling rights to the Rover 75, will be presenting a new variant of its British designed and engineered, 550 compact-sized sedan called Sports Edition. There's no information on what may be hiding under the hood - if there are any upgrades at all, but the sleek Chinese sedan does get a contrasting black bodykit with front and rear aprons, boot lid spoiler, side skirts and a set of chunkier alloy wheels.

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Old 04-19-09, 08:11 AM
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Kinda looks like a G6 crossed with a prev gen Sebring in the front. Meh
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Old 04-19-09, 10:30 AM
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G6? Not seeing it. The grill looks kinda similar to the ones on the new Toyota's, no worse of an offense than the Genesis grill though IMO.
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The side profile screams 2IS at me...
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Old 04-19-09, 12:07 PM
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That actually looked much better than anything that came out of China before. But that grille reminded me of... Nissan? just looked so familiar... and it looked already modified instead of OEM lol.
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it looks like a weird passat
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only a matter time before they hit home runs, just like hyundai is now.
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