China clones cars: everyone’s
p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- Japan once reigned supreme as the world’s most infamous maker of knock-offs which were virtually indistinguishable from the real thing.
But China, in 2008 producing not only an unhealthy proportion of legitimate product but also all kinds of counterfeits, both of which appear on legitimate and black markets around the world, now holds that distinction.
“China has begun pumping out more cars and trucks than ever before at ridiculously low prices,” posts Canada’s MonsterAuto.ca, going on:
“While most of their current vehicles built to date have been sold in China and Russia, they have been systematically progressing toward their stated goal of domination of both the North American and European Auto Industry.”
Featuring a YouTube video from RT (Russia Today), the story continues »»»
Cheap Chinese labor along with much lower manufacturing costs and environmental standards along with aggressive pricing are quickly making Chinese models a fixture in the automotive marketplace worldwide. Auto Industry experts have suggested that it is only a matter of time before westerners, stung by soaring gas prices, choose to buy these Chinese-built vehicles at a fraction of the cost of their domestic car counterparts.
If this seems something far-fetched, or you think we still have time, this video shows how Chinese manufacturers are invading Russia, using it as a test market to launch a wholesale attack on the North American and European Auto Marketplace.
Chinese Auto Manufacturers on a fast track to “world domination” are not even bothering to design their own vehicles, turning instead to cloning popular Western vehicle models. The saying “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” may be true in some cases, however this takes that statement to a completely new level.
The video is below, and on the right are pix of of the Chinese rip-offs published by MonsterAuto.ca.
MonsterAuto.ca – Chinese Car Clones, September 17, 2008
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September 20th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
The Chinese have been copying and counterfeiting things for thousands of years and this is just the latest trend due to China’s booming economy and sudden creation of a middle class. There is very little actual innovation in China, because it is considered an honor for something to be faithfully duplicated. The Chinese do NOT care about copyrights, and any claims to the opposite are without merit and mostly because of western pressures and the desire to appear as if they are actually addressing the issue. In their eyes copyrights do not exist at all; that is how it is in a communist country.