Chery Cloudwind Sedan – adopts BMW 1 Series rear end
We’re not so sure whats happening at Chery these days, it seems the engineers are really running the show and plan on flooding the market with a series of compact hatchbacks and sedans which compete against each other in the marketplace.
The Chery Cowin hatch is the latest car to be spotted from Chery, and is expected to be unveiled at the Shanghai car show in April. The car will no doubt be in direct competition with the Chery A3 hatch, but the interesting BMW 1 Series rear end may persuade enough people to buy them and attach BMW badges.
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Have a shame on you, Chery.. Isn’t it a time to grow out of copying others??
As usual, people with biased opinions who love to nitpick on Chinese cars find yet another unthinkable link. The resemblance to the BMW 1 Series rear end is vague at best.
Everyone copies everyone else, so what? The car looks great, so chill!
I hate china whats ur problem? So what they copied the rear end ? Just because they copied it means that they thought it looked sooooo good they decided to put it on their cars and whats wrong with that? Their just showing their admiration for BMW and other Foreign brands.
It’s not even a copy.. not more than how the Kia Soul ‘copied’ the Nissan Cube/Toyota bB (et al cubeish japanese cars). Or how the current gen Sonata ‘copied’ last gen Honda Accord. Or how Kia Amanti ‘ripped off’ the Jaguar S-type. Merely adapting some mainstream features. More of a homage/inspired, than a ‘copy’. Now the Great Wall Cool Bear is a copy.
maybe ur father lost his job because of CHINA?????
maybe of family lost job because of CHINA?????
mabe u lost job because of CHINA ?????
hahaha r u afraid of china?????
This I Hate China is a low life. If he’s Korean, he’s stupid. There is no reason for Koreans to hate China, he should be hating on Japan like 99% of Korea. If he is Japanese, he’s stupid too, since he pretends to be Korean and you know damn well that Koreans hate you guts.
Best form of flattery spotted yesterday:
Dirty assed Chinese box van (a la Toyota style) with a hand drawn BMW logo into the dusty/dirty rear windshield and “BMW” written above it.
For the record Koreans hate China almost as much as Japan. In fact embedded in the Korean psyche is the hate of any nation that has inflicted the slightest wrong against Korea in the last few thousand years.
With China’s record in Korea they have more than enough reason to hate China.
Mark,
I think its all relative to history at the end of the day, Britain took HK for a 100 years and turned China’s middle classes into drug addicts, but you dont have Chinese citizens shaking their fists in your face and denouncing you on the streets.
Anger towards Japan will disappate over the years, and a new common target of hatred will be found.
Why is this thing not working?
Anyways, I saw a survey that said over 90% of the Koreans have negative views of Japan, but only 48% of them have negative views of China.
“Imitation is (said to) be the sincerest form of flattery” — Honda has been making knock-offs of BMW (and now Mercedes) for years now. The Japanese were very very successful with their business model of taking other peoples designs and then improving on them — Toyota fed off of Chevrolet technology for many many years , hell , many internal engine parts and drivetrains are interchangable. I see that Brilliance went right to the source and is partners with BMW , the best run carmaker in the world. They have to start ‘somewhere’ and considering the Chinese are coming to this market at this late date (100+ yrs.after the car was invented) , I don’t see anything wrong with them attempting to start close to state-of-the-art — nothing else is sellable and they’ll find their way in their own time. I just hope they don’t get sucked down the dead-end road of petrol/deisel reliance , we’re running out fast.
Other than that , more power to them.
It worked for Japan , there’s no reason to think it won’t work for China — someday , we here in the US , may have to end up copying China to get our industries going again. What goes around , comes around.