Those imitative commies! They should call it the Tu-4, in honor of the Ruuskie knockoff of the B-29
ROTFL ... I’m pretty sure Chinese cars crappy quality and materials - regardless of style cue thefts - are going to be easily differentiated from BMW.
Both of them look like station wagons. Not exactly a new design concept.
“What’s the difference between a BMW and a porcupine....”
Looks isn’t ervything....
Hey....just free trade, right?
What’s wrong with that?
They don’t look any more alike that any other two SUVs in that size range. Different bumper, license plate moved, tailights different, different shape to rear quarter window, different look for the cyclops light; BMW is making a mistake trying to link the two.
Those imitative commies! They should call it the Tu-4, in honor of the Ruuskie knockoff of the B-29
I’m no expert on Chinese culture, but it seems that this is a value that they hold dear - copying success.
Painters are not allowed to paint their own stuff until they can copy the “masters” perfectly first.
We just can’t fathom this idea - we value our intellectual property too much.
and this is different from the Porshe?
and this is differnet from the Buick?
and this is different from the Subaru?
geeze, car makers have been making unispired “same as” design poop since the 1974.
Inspired design is the exception NOT the rule.
They won’t be that hard to tell apart. If you push the palm of your hand against the Chinese version, it will leave a mark just like those miracle foam mattresses.
They don’t look alike to me, and anybody who can’t tell a Beemer from Chinese junk deserves what they get.
If it offends the rednecks and the metrosexuals equally, it may be worth the entertainment value to buy one!
Just saying.
They both look like every other nondescript car on the road these days.
pro’lly needs leaded gas.
No worries.
I have no doubt the German vehicle doesn't use lead paint.
Not much to worry about....the effin chinks can’t even build a simple copier machine even when we supply them with blueprints (based on personal experience).
So to actually “wing it” and build a COPY of something....lordy, lordy, lordy....you wouldn’t catch me riding in that crap-box.
What I am about to write is extreme but true. When you go to China to manufacture or even sell, you are asking to be couterfeited and knocked off. Even if you are dealing with a reputable EM, or, control your own factory there, people working for you turn over fast, and take the IP to somewhere else. Solution - go back to a de facto embargo. Painful but necessary for this and a whole host of additional reasons, especially the growing China / SCO threat.
I can see all sorts of dissimilarities between them.
By this standard Honda should be suing Hyunda for producing a Sonata that looks so similar to my current-model Accord from many angles. You can’t (at least so far, to the best of my knowledge) copyright style. Get bent, BMW, ya bunch of arrogant Germans.