“Of course, the chances that Bricklin & Co. can get Chery into U.S. District Court in Eastern Michigan are about as good as Chery’s chances of entering the U.S. market anytime soon. Or as good as the chances that Elon Musk or Henrik Fisker will beat GM to market with plug-in hybrid sedans. (These two are starting to look like cut-rate Bricklins, aren’t they?) Watching Bricklin and his defendants from Chery would be at least as much fun as watching Musk’s Tesla v. Fisker. Malcolm Bricklin may have a 40-year record of seeing fledgling car companies fail, but you can always count on him to be entertaining.”

so Malcolm need to question his own business practice then, knowing that those models are banned by GM in North America and Europe and yet hes still wanted to sell them in the US.

IHC, Can you show proof of what you said about those models ? cos sometimes I cannot really take some people’s words seriously especially the one with a name loveutube77 on youtube. Thanks.

Malcolm did want to have the lowest priced car in USA.

> only the Eastar, V4, B12, and B22 are based on the Magnus Chassis I believe.

Code(Model Name)
S12(A1) : Stretched Matiz
B14(V5) : Magnus Wagon
B21(A7) : Reskinned Magnus sedan
B22(T3) : Reskinned Tigo(Toyota Chassis?)
B23(A6CC) : Magnus coupe

Personally, unless someone is willing it bring in an already high level vehicle with outstanding luxury, fuel efficiency, safety, and possible high tech alt fuel options, I don’t think any car should be allowed into a country (goes for China, too). No more cheap crap stuff like Yugo or early Hyundais. I think in this day and age, cheap should not be the only criteria to enter a market.

But with the US economy the way it is in now, I guess this may take care of itself?

Malcolm is trying to equate himself to VW and GM. Malcolm documented in his lawsuit how Chery stole car designs from VW and GM by hiring away their former employees, and is claiming that Chery did the same to him by hiring away some of key Visionary Vehicle people.

> plus GM already settled the problem with Chery and impose the ban of Chery QQ on sale in North America or Europe, so I don’t see why GM need to waste more money on lawsuit this time.

To stop Magnus and Lacetti based Cherys from reaching the US and Europe.

Of course it is enforcible. The moment any Chery manufactured vehicles land on US soil, they would be seized at the port and auctioned off to pay off the court judgement against Chery. In other word, Chery is banned from selling any vehicle in the US until they pay off the judgement.

Either way, what would probably happen is that the U.S. courts will find in favor of Bricklin. Unenforceable. Then he’ll sue in China. He’ll win. Chinese court will make the penalty something like 5,000rmb (usual payouts in foreigner vs. local practice) and Bricklin will have claimed a moral victory.

Chery settled with the designer for an undisclosed amount.

As for the designer suite, get the facts, Chery paid in a big way.

But based on Malcolm’s tone, I think he must be quite broke and frustrated now.

Malcolm has described in detail how Chery pirated GM and VW cars in his lawsuit. GM will be happy to join in as a win verdict would ban Chery product in the US and Europe for a decade.

S12 : Based on Matiz chassis and banned in the US and Europe.
B-series : Based on Magnus chassis and banned in the US and Europe.

The lawsuit details how these Daewoo designs were stolen and replicated by Chery.

> I was just reading through half of the text of the suit, but I already see that Chery is quite in the wrong here.

Yes, Chery committed grave sin.

Yugo was the most sucessful European import in the United States

Is this real ?