Side view:
Well-appointed interior:
Another interior shot:
Posted on 11/21/2014 10:23:57 AM PST by smokingfrog
Mitsu and Chrysler did a lot of cross licensing in the 1970s. Starting with Dodge Colt back in IIRC 1968 - it was a Mitsu Colt given to Dodge to sell.
Side view:
Well-appointed interior:
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The Zero had no bulletproof glass. Japanese pilots only had a single piece of armor plating behind him, affording little protection. Even more dangerously, a Zero’s fuel tanks were not self-sealing. “If you hit it a Zero with a tracer, they’d almost always catch fire”.
Won’t it be a hoot if the made the faux Land Rover the same way?
Hideous, as are virtually all new designs.
You’re close, Colt started fall 70 (MY 71) when the Vega and Pinto came out. Also the Plymouth Cricket came out that year.
I’m betting they cut costs with fake leather trim and plastics.... incidentally to cut weight.
If you want genuine luxury, the real Land Rover is the way to go. You do pay the premium though.
Not that I agree with the unethical (if it even is unethical) way Landwind copied LR’s auto, but the Chinese are giving them a lesson in segmentation marketing, a segment of the auto market LR doesn’t care about. So why should that segment of the market care about LR if they don’t care about them?
Yeah, I remember the Dodge Colts and Champs. First talking car we’d heard—in a metallic female voice: “Ding*The door is a jar. Ding*The door is a jar.” Maddening to work on with the door open, if plain old buzzers bugged you...
Those who learn nothing from history are doomed.................to lose a lot of money..............
And they have been greatly assisted by the fact that accountants with MBA's have been running most American companies for the past fifty plus years and to them quality much less the value of employing a work force at wages that allow them to buy the company's products are entirely alien. At a business seminar in Shanghai a presenter told us that at best, after allowing for the costs of setting up production, shipping product back to the USA, etc. an American company operating a plant in China will save 25% on their US production costs. That's in spite of the huge difference in labor costs.
Twenty five percent is a huge figure to someone trained to look for pennies saved and who has all the empathy for their fellow countrymen as a snake has for a rat. Or that once a Chinese factory has begun production upwards of ninety percent, unreported to the US partner, goes out the back door under a different or even the same pirated label. If one knowingly goes into business with a thief who is to blame when one is robbed?
Well, the first ones didn’t have that, but the 80s ones sure did.
And scuttlebutt is the Zero was designed by Howard Hughes and stolen by the Japanese.
Hey, if you want a homage car, that’s fine.
Just be aware if you’re a luxury car buyer, you won’t be satisfied.
If I had that kind of cash bulging in my pockets, I’d want and expect nothing but the best and for me price is no object when it comes to refined taste.
They don’t call certain items a “Chinese Copy” for nothing!
The Zero was a good fighter at first, the US had a problem with them going against the F4 Wildcats, et al. The problem with the Zero was with the designers not evolving the plane like the wildcat evolved to the Hellcats, etc.
The fun part is that the new “best customer” for towelhead supplied oil is gonna be the Chinese.
Those fun folks with mafia business practices and 1.5 billion expendable people to enforce the terms.
The party may be ending in the mideast. I see a lot of sheiks having to swap their Lamborghini back to a camel.
One traitor after another, seeing one of the consequences. But they won’t learn, until they are done.
There’s nothing that they can really do about the copies, which will be ever more common and overwhelmingly competitive. Besides, equipment of the near future will be made from open source designs. The monopoly gig is up. All will have to do real work for their money.
You fill it with gas and an hour later you have to fill it up again!..................
Good for you.
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