Great Wall to Fiat: ‘On yer bike, sunshine!’
Great Wall has responded angrily to Fiats accusations yesterday that Great Wall copied the Fiat Panda. A Great Wall spokesman had this to say:
“It took us three years and 300 million yuan (HK$309.7 million) to develop the Peri,”
According to Great Wall, the delay of the Peri model is due to the Chinese authorities being slow at providing the production license for this model. Great Wall says the Peri model will be delayed until early next year due to the paperwork delay, but one the models are rolling down the production lines, Great Wall says they will roll out the Peri in China and 80 other countries, including Italy. The Peri is expected to go up against the likes of the Chery A1 in China, and will thus be priced at the sensible 40, to 50,000rmb price bracket.
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For all those how just want to believe the GW Peri is not a copy of the Fiat Panda, take a look at this:
This is an overlay of The Peri and the Panda. The orange parts don’t fit, all the rest does. These are two nearly identical cars. But then of course – this might affend some people – a lot of Chinese cars are copys of European or Japanese cars. I truly believe China will become a leading nation in automobile industry, but they got a long way to go.
I dont know if the picscript worked, so here you can find the picture of the overlay:
http://static.autoblog.nl/images/wp2007/Great%20Wall%20Peri.jpg
To the Director of sales in the company of Greatwall distinctive auto industry
my name is Yaman Orfahly of the Syrian Arab Republic I want to buy a car from Chery model GW peri (1342cc) the date of origin (2008) complete the technical specifications and technical number 1 only.
I hope that you in. I rate per vehicle from both Modelan with the expense of freight by sea to the port of Latakia (Syria) with technical and identity cards and thank you very much
Best regards
Yaman Orfahly
info@grouporfahly.com
yaman_orfahly@yahoo.com