Great Wall appear to be aggresively branching out from their usual range of SUVs and pick up trucks and throwing themselves into the turbulent world of small Chinese hatchback production, later in 2008 they are expected to produce their first sedan.
The above hatchback, the Florid, is expected to go into production soon. More news as we get it!
Say it with me…..C-L-O-N-E.
It’s a Scion xA (Toyota Ist) with Toyota Vitz Rear taillamps, and a Toyota Yaris Front-end.
Sad and despicible.
” C-L-O-N-E ”
hehe.
Good thing the trend of blatantly cloned chinese cars seems te be fading, tho.
Not really, as this picture proves.
2o6 couldn’t have described it better..!!
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that’s totally depressing..!
It’s amazing what you can pull out the dumpsters behind the Toyota factory.
It would be REALLY scary to look in the dumpsters behind the Geely factory…….can you imagine finding a Panda reject?? Oh the nightmares………..
not sure whether japanese copying german as well.
all the cars are copies to each other, except for those cars with wings - that’s copy of birds
Being “inspired” by a pre-existing vehicle is OK.
Copying the design is not.
Chinese need to distinquish between these two concepts.
Fading Gone.
Most Chinese car manufacturers are fairly young (ie-Chery and BYD), while Great Wall was founded in 1984. Undoubtedly, it would take a while to get over this phase of mimicking others to get their technology off the ground.
To prove my point, while Kia Motors was founded in 1944, in 2004, they released the Amanti which was hailed to be a copy of the Jaguar S-type by most media. (and rightly so, just like this is GWM hatch is a Toyota rip off). It even ripped of Mercedes’ famed seat controls. (http://automobilesdeluxe.blogspot.com/2006/07/drive-kia-amanti.html)
That’s a full 64 years after the start of the company, and they were STILL releasing such “inspired” designs. What makes it so surprising that the young Chinese auto industry is still doing so?
Ack, i meant to say: fading is not equal to gone. I guess cant’ show up together!
Toyota Yaris ?
oh it’s a Great Wall Yaris.
Shame on Great Wall, they are carrying the name of China’s great monument and they are comming out with such thing.
I agree. The government should ban their use of the word Great Wall!