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December 10, 2007
Chinese smart Knock-off Crashes Bologna!
By John
Editor
If imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, Mercedes-Benz just doesn’t know how to take a compliment. The company is currently suing Chinese automaker Shuanghuan for ripping off the design of its smart fortwo, and as part of that process, they were granted an injunction keeping the alleged copy cats out of the Bologna auto show. But while M-B might have managed to keep their "competition" off the floor, their doppleganger did hold court in the parking lot. Now, I’m no legal expert, but I don’t know what’s riskier, flaunting an injunction by crashing the party, or giving the auto press a perfect excuse to use "Chinese car" and "crash" in the same sentence. Check out the full story at Motor Authority.
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miamicars
Nov 20, 2008 at 8:24 pm
I would love to see that chinese knock off in a car crash test..I wonder when they will roll out the knock off Bentleys, Ferraris and Lambos…They might sell well..
CCF
Dec 15, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Hey guys give the manf some respect, its not lead paint. Lots of chines auto manf’s are very creditble and selling thousands of cars overseas and improving very fast. SHuanghuan is very new, give it some years
China Cars – Shuanghuan Auto, Chery Auto, Geely Motor
CCF
Dec 15, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Hey guys give the manf some respect, its not lead paint. Lots of chines auto manf’s are very creditble and selling thousands of cars overseas and improving very fast. SHuanghuan is very new, give it some years
China Cars – Shuanghuan Auto, Chery Auto, Geely Motor
retroman
Dec 11, 2007 at 8:15 pm
Well this isn’t the first time this has happened(remember the Chevy HHR and Chrysler Pt Cruiser? Obviously, Chevy won saying it was modeled after one of its own ’40s wagons, but it does look alot like a Pt). The Chinese are the most notorious for stealing other countries’ ideas. They probably got it from Soviet Russia which copied American engineering so well that they even copied the faults and passwords they didn’t know, sometimes added to them. My professor in college conducts business with the Chinese government. Before a product can be sold, the government has to ensure its safety. The problem is that bribes are completely legal there, and so the government sells the information to its own companies to produce knock offs. He said that one time, a maintenance guy got called to fix a machine for a company. He got there took a look at the serial # and found that his company didn’t make it even though the name was on it. Some Chinese company had made a knockoff of even the sales brochures and had unknowingly copied a password that was put in place for security.
Highspeedhijinks
Dec 11, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Yeah didn’t you know that color is called “Pure Lead Red”
Anonymous
Dec 11, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Is it painted it PURE LEAD !!!!
Ted
Dec 11, 2007 at 3:46 am
They been doing the same thing for years… decades. Theft of intellectual property by reverse-engineering. If Alien UFO’s crash, I hope they don’t crash in China. Not long after, we’d start seeing Chinese UFO’s buzzing around.
cknarf
Dec 11, 2007 at 3:32 am
just like most chinese vehicles, they’re like soda cans and contain lead paint.