I8ABMR

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.

felixsc300

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Nope, no talent whatsoever.

KILLERGS4

R8 and G35 wanna be

PhilipMSPT

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Communism at it's best.

Everyone shares everything. Even design.

Allen K

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They might have talent, but stealing designs is a lot easier...

4TehNguyen

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china is more and more communism in name only, they have more economic freedoms than the US.

Watch in 20 years, the same thing will happen to China what Hyundai did to the US

ffpowerLN

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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.

bitkahuna

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we're getting more communist here, and china's getting more free market. who'lda thunk it.

but unless china cracks down on intellectual property theft and patent infringement, it will have anarchy.

Lil4X

I remember as recently as the '60's when "Made in Japan" was synonymous with cheap rip-off junk. The early Honda 600 was a joke that literally fell apart on American roads. It seems that it was designed as an urban vehicle in Japan, but importers didn't understand what a three-hour drone at highway speeds could do to this underachieving little tin box. To their great credit, Honda learned from the experience and produced the CVCC, a credible economy car. From there, with few exceptions, things only got better.

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.

madmax2k1

I think the Chinese have the capacity to produce products in huge quantities at the expense of quality and innovation.

IS-SV

Yes, that's what keeps Walmart shelves full.

MI350_55

I bet the exterior is lead-based paint.

patrickgs3

the car is made of female baby skeletons!

Amini9

Chinese electronic makers made the iPone (made up the name, but there is one), why not autos now?

LexFather

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!