Paul Tan on the Automotive Industry
It doesn’t take a genius to know that Shuanghuan Automobile ripped off the design of BMW’s X3 (tail lamps) and first generation X5 SUVs when it styled the Shuanghuan CEO. Even the name is similiar to the X5′s “the boss is back” tagline when it was launched in Malaysia.
But apparently a court in Milan, Italy couldn’t see that, and rejected BMW’s claim that the Chinese SUV infringed its copyright. BMW won a similiar case on its home grounds in Munich in July this year.
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After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history. An avid electronic gadget aficionado as well as big-time coffee lover, he's also the executive producer of the Driven motoring TV programme.
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just like the China fake CRV not long ago, haha
copyright = the right to copy, lol~
This either means that either the German Judge was biased or the Italian judge was blind. Judgements does not mean anything if Shuanghuan Automobile does not operate out from Germany or Italy.
Haha! Chinese! Always come out with surprise. So whose next to be copied? Volvo? Or Merc?
those judges must have been paid alot by Shuanghuan…..we all know how corrupt italy is ……btw , wat kinda turn off name is Shuanghuan anyway?? who wd buy a car with that name on it?!!
I saw this CEO at a foreign motorshow last year. One thing the Chinese car manufacturers cannot copy yet is the quality. It’s really bad, especially the interior gaps and flushness.
Typical…they can come up with something which looks exactly the same but poor quality. e.g. NOKIA N95 ~ NOKLA N95; SONY ~ SOMY
Same goes to this BMW X5….
just came back from China, almost everything is fake… from antiques, to paintings… even fashion cloths… you know, there is a joke saying a guy tried to commit suicide by eating a box of rat poison, surprisingly he survived because the rat poison appears to be fake… China oh China…
Do you know they have a Fake Forbidden City? Yes, brick by brick, columns by columns… an actual duplicate of the real Forbidden City.
http://blog.miragestudio7.com/2007/08/heng-dian-studio-and-the-forbidden-city/
They just love to copy stuff ain;t it?
Is it just my old eyes or is the tyres a bit too small for the car.
LoL The Chinese can copy anything…..Even a Ferrari Enzo got copied in China…..
pls bring this in NAZA…lol!
Hil-mei said,
December 22, 2008 @ 3:53 pm
LoL The Chinese can copy anything…..Even a Ferrari Enzo got copied in China…..
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yeah!.. waiting for that time..
I bet then, all italian judge will never ever give china win anymore. Hahaha
China, so fake..
so now, i start to thinking either Zhang Zhi Yi is fake to..
Omg!.. what if she’s a man! lol
effortless Chinese make..lol
you are right ! Zhang Whi Yi is a man…
copyright = the right to copy
as my wife luv to say, nothing is original anymore. semua mau copy and paste
told u, nothing goods comes from china. it something that i need is available from other country, i prefer other country rather than china. if there’s no other produce them, i try to minimize as much…
once my lecturer tells us stories, his friend a businessman go to china. he was told by some chinese businessman, “u want this thing sold at how much? 1 ringgit, 2 ringgit? 20cent we also can make!”.
thats how they willing to do for business. quality wise, tadakkk…
Maybe proton should not invest in that country. Or if we want to invest, lets give them the original saga. If they want to copy that, go ahead
haha, typical china people. copy copy copy.
pui!
china=copycat….
sometimes,i feel very lucky that i’m born in malaysia….
any front end picture of this piece of crap?
WTH? when are they going to stop copying…i dont see the point of copying..if i copy i dont feel proud at all…
indirectly this shows tht bmw produce well-designed cars or else they wouldn’t have copied…a good leader will produce lots of followers
and wat abt the crash test…
not that similar with X5 laa… just the dimension i guess.
but this one price can buy 5 X5 already.. haha
charles27 said,
December 23, 2008 @ 5:26 am
not that similar with X5 laa… just the dimension i guess.
but this one price can buy 5 X5 already.. haha
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not that similar?? it looks like you can take the doors of this car and put them on an X5!!?!
Not only the BMW they copied, they copied Smart, Toyotas & Hondas too.
Look at these:
http://www.thetycho.com/galleries_shuanghuan.htm
Dont worry BMW! This crap will disassemble itself once it hit 60km/j!!
i want buy this car then rebadge bmw and put in ac schnitzer rims then can already, i also got x5 leh, don play play
not only that this car is damn right ugly,its also a copycat. but i dont seem to really care,you see,once that “CREATURE” hits a speedbump all that chinese parts will fall into bits and pieces.
-nabilll said,
December 22, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
those judges must have been paid alot by Shuanghuan…..we all know how corrupt italy is ……btw , wat kinda turn off name is Shuanghuan anyway?? who wd buy a car with that name on it?!!
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many bmw wannabes will buy lar…
like sex bla bla said, just stick a bimmer logo into it and presto…you get BMW X3.
ssangyong also got, stick mercdes badge