unlike china, malaysia respects international law, and we do enforce IP laws.. yes.. true, we have a large market for pirated products in malaysia, but not as large as many other asian countries.. but more importantly, there is visible enforcement. if our govt. does not care about it, there will be no enforcement at all.

at the very least.. i'm still proud that proton took the hard way to design and build their own car.. not everything worked out fine and dandy, but at least they didnt have to resort to blatant copying. Its because of amount of time and money spent to build up a credible manufacturing business and R&D facility, there are now several large foreign companies who want to buy into proton. If there is no value there as many people on this forum claim, these large companies wouldn't even bother to come here, and put in a bid.

who's in their sane mine would say this is NOT a blatant rip-off?

if they 'terror', try la build car with similar dimension (HxWxL) to the smartfortwo… see how it will turn out.

i had already stated that this is not so much of an engineering clone but more of a concept clone, cos the concept and outlook is copied but not the engineering.

(KY: what do you mean they didnt rip off the whole concept? the exterior design, the two seats, the size for ease of parking? isn’t that the whole concept of the smart fortwo?)

concept with the small size for the ease of parking?

isn't kancil also use this small size concept for the ease of

parking?

just like we said the car concept for four, with four wheel?

so, rip off the same concept is illegal?

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complete rip-off the concept?

i though when we said copy or clone, we are talking about enginnering clone.

so if the smart fortwo is the first to come out the concept for the two,

than other maker must pay the fee for them to come out the same

concept car for two person?

and i think many sport car also design for two person only,

isn't smart fortwo not the first to had this for two concept?

i just confuse, any one can explain?

they juz copy blindly everything seyh..

back on those days i remember how they copy the motocycle design..

sigh..now it's 4 wheel's turn..

no akta hakcipta ka kt sana?

still i think its shell would much stronger than a Kancil…. Kelisa…..

or Myvi ? need to tried out one first….

1) its powered by a 0.8L engine similar to the one found in Chery QQ, and another variant is 1.1L engine with DOHC, with multipoint fuel injection, from Bosch (memang cetak rompak Smart punya nih…)

2) this car has large full tank, FC is 4L/100km, one full tank can go nearly 1000km (wow, can fight D-Max liaw…)

3) it has pass QC test in China with 50km/h crash test….

can som1 summarize 4 me,pls?

we r among top movie pirate in d world,u know dat?

malaysia boleh…

some vcd n dvd copying machine with valid license have been found to be involved in this syndicate (read it in d news ages ago).

if not 4 them, where 2 get cheap vcd n dvd?

sometime the censorship board r bunch of morons…

we have the rating so implement it..

opss, out of topic plak….

soree

and it had pass the chinese crash test.

if sale in malaysia less than RM20K, sure will sale one.

If they do, means they are supporting pirates.

Means they should allow pirated DVD as well.

ha ha…… I wonder……

Pirates Of China, look quite good… Wonder if closer look on it..the material nice or not… ?