do Chinese automakers have any talent or do they just steal designs?????
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I just saw this Chinese audi R8 rip off. I think its hilarious. I am sure Audi is not happy with this design
Somehow, we managed to miss China's first-ever hybrid sports car at the Shanghai Motor Show earlier this year. Known as the S11 from Tong Jian – which incidentally also seems to be the name of a popular Chinese figure skater – this hybrid sports car looks production ready. Details on the coupe's powertrain are extremely scarce, but China Car Times reports that all four wheels are powered in some manner, presumably through a combination of electric motors and internal combustion.
It's obvious that the S11's designers have looked to the Audi R8 and any number of recent Ferraris for design inspiration, both inside and out. As far as we can tell, the resulting mashup isn't all that bad – minus the one-size-too-small alloys and those awkward Audi-esque blades on either side.
If CCT's sources are correct, design work on the Tong Jian S11 has been completed and the hybrid sports car is headed for production at an unknown plant in Changchun city in short order.
Somehow, we managed to miss China's first-ever hybrid sports car at the Shanghai Motor Show earlier this year. Known as the S11 from Tong Jian – which incidentally also seems to be the name of a popular Chinese figure skater – this hybrid sports car looks production ready. Details on the coupe's powertrain are extremely scarce, but China Car Times reports that all four wheels are powered in some manner, presumably through a combination of electric motors and internal combustion.
It's obvious that the S11's designers have looked to the Audi R8 and any number of recent Ferraris for design inspiration, both inside and out. As far as we can tell, the resulting mashup isn't all that bad – minus the one-size-too-small alloys and those awkward Audi-esque blades on either side.
If CCT's sources are correct, design work on the Tong Jian S11 has been completed and the hybrid sports car is headed for production at an unknown plant in Changchun city in short order.
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You gotta start from somewhere and the Chinese automakers are doing exactly just that. Give them another 20 years they'll make Hyundai today looks like nothing...
We can laugh at them just for fun but it'll be foolish to ignore them just because they are copy cats.
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but unless china cracks down on intellectual property theft and patent infringement, it will have anarchy.
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Exactly.
You gotta start from somewhere and the Chinese automakers are doing exactly just that. Give them another 20 years they'll make Hyundai today looks like nothing...
We can laugh at them just for fun but it'll be foolish to ignore them just because they are copy cats.
You gotta start from somewhere and the Chinese automakers are doing exactly just that. Give them another 20 years they'll make Hyundai today looks like nothing...
We can laugh at them just for fun but it'll be foolish to ignore them just because they are copy cats.
I would be concerned that the sense of enterprise and work ethic is somewhat less in communist China than it was - and is - in Japan. They certainly have the potential, but it remains to be seen whether they have the ability to lead a market sector.
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Im sorry but that made me laugh.
While Chinese automakers do copy pretty blatantly so did the Japanese many times initially. Hell even today they are blasted for "Copying". I look around and German cars surely have copied Japanese cars.
Its part of the game. What is scary to think is China will eventually catch up and they will do it with much much cheaper labor. As car prices continue to escalate imagine 20 years from now getting a V-12 car built like a Benz, looking like a Lexus, handling like a BMW for 30 grand.
Scary thought for automakers, great thought for consumers!
While Chinese automakers do copy pretty blatantly so did the Japanese many times initially. Hell even today they are blasted for "Copying". I look around and German cars surely have copied Japanese cars.
Its part of the game. What is scary to think is China will eventually catch up and they will do it with much much cheaper labor. As car prices continue to escalate imagine 20 years from now getting a V-12 car built like a Benz, looking like a Lexus, handling like a BMW for 30 grand.
Scary thought for automakers, great thought for consumers!