Not too long ago, in a country far, far away, Yema Auto presented a clone of the previous generation Subaru Forester. The years passed and the force behind Yema Auto became stronger and stronger…
At this week's Chengdu Auto Show 2011, the Chinese automaker unleashed a second attack with a new breed of clones named the E-SUV, T-SUV and the F16.
In all cases, the pictures speak louder than words and it doesn't take an avid automobile aficionado to see that the T-SUV is a blatant rip-off of the Volkswagen Tiguan, the E-SUV China's doppelganger of the Infiniti EX crossover and the F16 and its commercial E-TAXI sibling, copies of the older Audi A4 Avant.
Scroll down to check out the fabulous work of Yema Auto…
Photos Courtesy Auto Ifeng
40 Comments:
Damn fucking chinesse they look almost the same
Hahaha! The proportions of the cars are, well not good. The wheels looks so cute. A common problem with chines cars?
China are famous for cloning...
I bet that this iPad which stands near "Infiniti" is clone too.
ugly chinese cloning...i hate them
It seems like they only changed the badges/grilles...
Also, I guess the higher suspension if to fight the common potholes.
Just wait when they'll learn how to make cars.. that will be revolution
Do these Chinese have any shame?
Quality is looking great on the E-TAXI!!!Just look at those tight gaps!
China can go to hell.
Except for the Wal-Mart folks. Oh, and the kiddos that assemble the iPhone.
But the rest of China? Hell.
Damn the Chinese pirated movies on old CD/VCD/DVD's coasters, they are all passe...so 20th Cent.
The "higher margin" pirating profits are on copied premium cars of the Germans or Japanese (and have been for sometime) !
Betcha the same outside suppliers of Audi, VW and Infiniti (as in the cases above)...are the same (generic) parts suppliers of these copycat cars. These suppliers are complicit to the infringement copying by companies like Yema, etc...same design, same tooling (with some spec adjustments) all in the name of profits from cost cutting.
Hooray for reverse engineering (for the Chinese)....NOT!!
how could someone buy these cars and knowing that one day, a real audi would pass them and that theyd have to kill themselves..
I'm proud for being a Chinese ... XD
That is shameful :o i really hope they don't go home at night thinking they have done a good job !
still cant believe they have no copyright laws whatsoever.
Wow, how do the Chinese not get sued for that? Like they took a copy machine to the last car show.
get over it. At least they are making cars at a more realistic price, I just hope that their motors are as good as the originals.
Wow, they really don't care do they?
Looks like parts from original cars put on self-made body
nobody can stop these fraudsters, obviously they will not be able to sell this crap in Europe and US but they are free to sell it to the rest of the world and in mainland china..
What the heck is wrong with these Chinese? Jeez, Asia's dishonour.
If I worked for Audi - Infiniti or VW I would sue these barstards - Its intellectual property they are stealing, so farkin blatant! Have they NO SHAME??
Fucking communists
These look just funny, they have nothing in common with the actual original designs. The chinese somehow manage to botch the designs, to make them looks like parodies of the originals. Funny :)
Dispicable and low, but what did you expect from the Chinese. Why can't they come up with their won designs, is it really that difficult? What they did now is produce cheap copies without any shame. They don't have any feeling for values or honour?
Best of all, Yema use the old Austin Maestro as their platform. This was hardly a classic design when it launched in 1983.
you people are all very funny!! first of all, chinese are very smart- americans and europeans wanted to earn a lot of money. they thought: we will exploit chinese as they will work a whole day for few grains of rice. and chinese did that for a last 20 years. now they produce everything and why wouldn't they take whole profit. one pair of branded snickers cost 1 US dollar (factory price). in a store in croatia that same pair costs 70-80 euro. we're still paying the same price as the products are made in domestic countries, but the profit is way more bigger when it's MADE IN CHINA!!
Chinese Auto Industry has: 1) no shame, 2) no intelligent deisgn, 3) no safety, 4) no reliability, 5) no taste, 6) no copy right, 7) no Amercian buyers...
I would not even buy tires made from China that last 50k miles. I would pay 200 dollars more for tires made in America that last 75,000 miles. now is that more expensive? you do the math. use the same formula for all products.
Cloning Acura logo too? :S
No shame. No honor. The Chinese who do this and the Chinese government who allows this to happen are the parasites of the world. Let's not associate these people with other Asian cultures. Because they are not the same.
No shame?!?! Are you kidding me?!?! The Chinese are simply reciprocating the capitalist agenda all over again. Who revolutionized mass-scale capitalism? Western Europe. Who fu*ked up the whole world through colonialism? Western Europe. Who fu*ked up China in recent history? Western Europe and Japan. I'm not saying that China is better, since the country has done its share of fu*king up other people and countries, but China has had a looooooong history of getting its own technologies CLONED TO FU*KING DEATH. I'm not Chinese, but I can understand their mentality. Honor?!?! Bah! Such an illusion, you fu*ked up hypocrites. The Chinese are adaptable; such is why China still exists to this day, from its unification of thousands of years ago. You exploit China, but they turn that exploitation into opportunity. Gee, it's no wonder why numerous Chinese companies are helping desperate and debt-driven Western companies. He*l, even China is one of the largest holders of US debt. So yea, fu*k you self-righteous, ethnocentric Western dykes.
if tour going to clone, at least make them better. this is bullcrap
And they're sold for $1.00 at your local Dollar stores!! Get them while they last!
Wow... those look like crap. Seriously China, WTF?!
Yes, however tempted over the years, all those honorable Western automakers were loathe to copy the Mercedes big box grille......
I am Chinese, and I do not like these clones at all! Proportions are all wrong and ugly (to put mildly). I think Chinese should have higher standard in design than these elementary-student level products.
Oooh, an ill-proportioned Audi A4 clone on an Austin Maestro chassis you say? Assembled in China you say? Where do I sign?
The body looks the same, but the quality is lacking, the drivetrain will be from some thirty year old design that they stole. They cant be sued because the foreign companies will have to go to China to sue them. That case is lost before it starts. This is what they get any way. its Chinese law that for a foreign company to operate in China they have to take a Chinese partner. So lets say Audi takes a Chinese partner shares all of their technology so that these cars can be built in China as per their agreement. How long before those partnerships are not re-newed and they kick the foreign companies out. You cant trust China and they should all know that, they are just greedy.
Another bunch of 'clones' from China. What else is new?
As long as these companies get customers for cars like these in China, they'll keep churning them out. Unless other car companies start copyrighting each and every aspect of their design, from runabouts to supercars, nothing's going to stop them.
Once China discovers their own design style, this cloning business will slowly disappear.
They couldn't even do different grill treatments!?
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