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Chinese Debut Cheap Range Rover Copy At Display Next To The Real Thing
Jalopnik ^ | 11-21-14 | http://matepetrany.kinja.com/

Posted on 11/21/2014 10:23:57 AM PST by smokingfrog

Land Rover just launched their Chinese-built Evoque at the Guangzhou Auto Show, while a few feet away, copycat LandWind X7 offered the same design at quarter of the price.

AWKWARD!!

This Is Not A Range Rover Evoque - But rather its Chinese cousin, the Landwind X7

Understandably, JLR is about to file a complaint to Chinese officials now regarding IP theft. I say good luck with that, but one can sure feel bad for Jaguar Land Rover. They put their money in a joint venture with Chinese manufacturer Chery to start the Evoque's local production, and this is what they got in return. A cheap copycat powered by a Mitsubishi engine.

Land Rover chief executive officer Dr Ralf Speth had this to say to Autocar about the X7:

The fact that this kind of copying is ongoing in China is very disappointing. The simple principal is that it is not something that should happen; the Intellectual Property is owned by Jaguar Land Rover and if you break that IP then you are in breach of international regulations that apply around the world.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chery; china; knockoff; landwind; tata
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To: W.

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.


21 posted on 11/21/2014 11:05:08 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: smokingfrog
Land Wind for your viewing pleasure:


Side view:


Well-appointed interior:

Another interior shot:



22 posted on 11/21/2014 11:05:25 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Fido969

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”.


23 posted on 11/21/2014 11:05:49 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: smokingfrog

Won’t it be a hoot if the made the faux Land Rover the same way?


24 posted on 11/21/2014 11:07:19 AM PST by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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To: goldstategop

Hideous, as are virtually all new designs.


25 posted on 11/21/2014 11:08:30 AM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Spktyr

You’re close, Colt started fall 70 (MY 71) when the Vega and Pinto came out. Also the Plymouth Cricket came out that year.


26 posted on 11/21/2014 11:09:30 AM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, Convict, Deport)
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To: Fido969

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.


27 posted on 11/21/2014 11:10:00 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: smokingfrog

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?


28 posted on 11/21/2014 11:12:05 AM PST by celmak
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To: Spktyr

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...


29 posted on 11/21/2014 11:13:06 AM PST by W. (We won. Get over it! Or not--I don't care--because we won!)
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To: Sherman Logan

Those who learn nothing from history are doomed.................to lose a lot of money..............


30 posted on 11/21/2014 11:13:48 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: W.
You would probably lose that bet. The Japanese do not have the most spotless record for business ethics and adherence to international laws protecting IP. But the Chinese are in a different class entirely. They have no regard whatsoever for western business ethics and international law.

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?

31 posted on 11/21/2014 11:15:10 AM PST by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: W.

Well, the first ones didn’t have that, but the 80s ones sure did.


32 posted on 11/21/2014 11:15:10 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Fido969

And scuttlebutt is the Zero was designed by Howard Hughes and stolen by the Japanese.


33 posted on 11/21/2014 11:16:15 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: celmak

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.


34 posted on 11/21/2014 11:17:07 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Red Badger

They don’t call certain items a “Chinese Copy” for nothing!


35 posted on 11/21/2014 11:17:12 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: smokingfrog

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.


36 posted on 11/21/2014 11:18:16 AM PST by celmak
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To: katana

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.


37 posted on 11/21/2014 11:18:18 AM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, Convict, Deport)
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To: smokingfrog

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.


38 posted on 11/21/2014 11:18:44 AM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

You fill it with gas and an hour later you have to fill it up again!..................


39 posted on 11/21/2014 11:19:18 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: goldstategop

Good for you.


40 posted on 11/21/2014 11:19:25 AM PST by celmak
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