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Old 10-07-11, 12:00 PM
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I dont see how this is legally possible.





Look at that wheel gap!





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Old 10-07-11, 01:39 PM
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OMG, how dare they do that! The cars probably sell at 1/3 of the price of the real ones. The quality probably is as cheap as it can be, but posers don't care.
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Old 10-07-11, 01:45 PM
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i thought the chinese were cloning people LOL
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Old 10-07-11, 02:01 PM
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they are doing what they do best
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Originally Posted by rominl
they are doing what they do best
Exactly my thoughts! lol
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Old 10-07-11, 02:33 PM
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just like star wars, attack of the clones lol
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Old 10-07-11, 02:49 PM
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first two are easy to recognize. Still trying to figure out what that blue one is a copy of.
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Originally Posted by rkyat
first two are easy to recognize. Still trying to figure out what that blue one is a copy of.
It's a copy of the VW Tiguan SUV lol
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wow...........
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Old 10-07-11, 04:09 PM
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They have no shame, no pride, and even worse, no chutzpah!

Way to think short term, guys.
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Being Chinese myself, this bothers me greatly .
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Old 10-07-11, 04:21 PM
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i have sat in one Gen2 Rav4 copy by Great Wall.... it was 50m on the showroom after real Rav4 and it had 20k Price vs real one being 35k. It looked around 95% the same.

Then you open the doors... lol.
- doors couldnt close, door frame metal would hit door
- window on doors rattled a lot when closed, as if they hit metal (like in old frameless coupe doors, except they had full frame and were fully up)
- you sit down as if you were in sports car and your knees end up above your stomach :-).
- complete interior looked like a joke... and wasnt a copy of rav4's, it had big 7" screen that looked like it came from some toy store with $5 price tag.


at the end, they were not that cheaper... it is not like they were selling them for $5k.
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something like this :-)

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Wow, The Chinese sure do suck at making cars LOL!
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Those clones are made by a company called YEMA. Here is their website:

http://www.yemaauto.cn/
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