Fiat says they’ve never copied a car ever, especially not a Greatwall effort
Yesterday the Italian car company, Fiat, replied to Great Wall Motors ‘spy gate incident’> by saying that Fiat has never copied a car in its history, and has also not received any subpoena from the courts, or Great Wall Motors.
In June this year Great Wall Motors (GWM) accused Fiat of industrial sabotage, and filed a case against Fiat in Shi Jia Zhuang City’s mid level court. GWM apparently has proof of Fiats activities which allegedly prove that Fiat sent spies into the GWM R&D center to take photos of the first GWM Perry hatchback. In late September Shi Jia Zhuang City court sent a subpoena to Fiat’s representative office in Shanghai, the rep office refused to sign and said it was a matter for the Italian headquarters to deal with.
It will be interesting how this most recent Fiat-GWM spat will play out, the Chinese court system has before ruled in GWM’s favor by saying that the Perry is not a clone of the Fiat Panda, however an Italian judge ruled against GWM and refused to allow the Perry into Europe.
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It will go the Great Walls advantage for sure since it is taking place in China.
who would want to copy from a crappy company? I know Fiat sucks but they would never copy from a piece of crap company like great wall that can’t even name their own company. Great Wall, what kind of stupid name is that? Is the name “Terracotta Warriors” taken? Fiat sucks but they have standard.
go jack off jack ass.
hello tomson
of course that you have right on your oppinion but all this what you write is full of crap, have you ever seen great wall motor??? i was there couple time, and i can say that it’s a modern company, also have you know that in gwm work plenty of people from italy???
i have other model, great wall hover, pass 120.000 km without bigger problems, and i can say that car is ok
wow GReat Crap have plenty people from Italy that made it a modern company. wow!!!!!!!!! do you work for Great Crap or something?
who the hell are you to bash others when you are a piece of worthless shit yourself.
You care or you wouldn’t reply, loser..Go cry to your mama, boy.
That is the great thing about China. You can rave about a car going 120,000 km. In the US it would need to be well over 120,000miles which is far from 200,000km. to say it is just an ok car. The bar is set pretty low in China at this point. My last car had almost 200,000 miles before I did anything other change the oil and check brake pads.
Dudes,
These are the facts:
GW Peri = Fiat Panda copy
GW Coolbear = Toyota Bb copy (gen-1, the cool one)
GW Florid = half Toyota Yaris / half Toyota iSt
GW Hover/H5 = Isuzu Axiom (Joe would be very disappointed)
GW Deer = Old-gen Toyota Hilux
GW ‘Druncken’ Sailor = Nissan Frontier
GW Socool = Isuzu DMAX
GW Wingle = well, I can’t say anybody has ever done anything this fugly
Are any of you getting what going on here yet?
Jochen
I thought the Florid was a copy of the Scion XA first generation. It looks just a hair longer but otherwise dead on.
Is that the same thing as the toyoa ist?
Yes. Same car. Toyota ist in Japan, Scion xA in US.
This site is still the same. Someone makes an honest quote and someone defends the Chinese brand no matter what they do wrong. Chinese people need to learn that negative comments about their country have to be accepted. Not everything in China is perfect. Nothing is perfect in any country. There is always negative and positive. But there is no point to defend every negative in China. Come on. I would never defend everything in the US. I think the US government should have let Chrysler and GM fail on their own. Don’t defend something wrong. It just looks foolish and puts a negative image on china.
This is fucked up, i mean how to you suppose the Chinese get their hands on those cars’ blueprints, they must have planted moles inside those companies.
Why would they need blue prints? There were pictures of the original cars in their factory on this website.