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BMW CEO Fuming Over Chinese Knock-Off Of Popular X5 SUV. (Pics)
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| 8/28/07
Posted on 08/28/2007 11:27:43 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
ROTFL ... I’m pretty sure Chinese cars crappy quality and materials - regardless of style cue thefts - are going to be easily differentiated from BMW.
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:30:54 AM PDT
by
mgc1122
To: LibWhacker
Both of them look like station wagons. Not exactly a new design concept.
To: LibWhacker
“What’s the difference between a BMW and a porcupine....”
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:32:15 AM PDT
by
xcamel
(FDT/2008 -- talk about it >> irc://irc.freenode.net/fredthompson)
To: LibWhacker
Looks isn’t ervything....
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:32:46 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: mgc1122
Im pretty sure Chinese cars crappy quality and materials - regardless
of style cue thefts - are going to be easily differentiated from BMW.
Give 'em time.
Because similar things were being said about "Jap junk" only a couple
of decades ago.
I remember our apt discription of the exhaust note of Japanese cars
(compared to our Mustangs, etc.):
"Sounds like a squirrel farting into a tin can".
But things changed.
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:33:53 AM PDT
by
VOA
To: LibWhacker
Hey....just free trade, right?
What’s wrong with that?
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:34:22 AM PDT
by
rottndog
(Government is a necessary evil, but as with all evils, the less of it the better.)
To: mgc1122
The Orientals’ lack of creativity rears its head yet again...
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:34:52 AM PDT
by
Brakeman
(Self delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly - Ronald Reagan)
To: Always Right
I think every since the 80s most cars have been “mind melding” into look-a-likes.
Man, when a 60s/70s era Vet or Mustang or Camero or Duster came down the road you knew what it was.
Now most is mush.
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:36:05 AM PDT
by
PeteB570
(Guns, what real men want for Christmas)
To: LibWhacker
They don’t look any more alike that any other two SUVs in that size range. Different bumper, license plate moved, tailights different, different shape to rear quarter window, different look for the cyclops light; BMW is making a mistake trying to link the two.
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:36:31 AM PDT
by
PAR35
To: xcamel
Old joke here in La La Land!
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:37:41 AM PDT
by
gc4nra
( this tag line protected by Kimber and the First Amendment (I voted for McClintock))
To: mgc1122
Lead based paint and parts small enough for a toddler to swallow?
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:38:54 AM PDT
by
gc4nra
( this tag line protected by Kimber and the First Amendment (I voted for McClintock))
To: LibWhacker
The Chinese-made SUV which ironically enough is called CEO... Those imitative commies! They should call it the Tu-4, in honor of the Ruuskie knockoff of the B-29
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:39:37 AM PDT
by
Plutarch
To: LibWhacker
I’m no expert on Chinese culture, but it seems that this is a value that they hold dear - copying success.
Painters are not allowed to paint their own stuff until they can copy the “masters” perfectly first.
We just can’t fathom this idea - we value our intellectual property too much.
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:41:19 AM PDT
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: xcamel
Eat your heart out, xcamel!
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:41:51 AM PDT
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
To: PeteB570
“I think every since the 80s most cars have been mind melding into look-a-likes.”
A guy I worked with said all new cars looked like a used bar of soap.
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:42:42 AM PDT
by
caver
(Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
To: LibWhacker
and this is different from the Porshe?
and this is differnet from the Buick?
and this is different from the Subaru?
geeze, car makers have been making unispired “same as” design poop since the 1974.
Inspired design is the exception NOT the rule.
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:42:56 AM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: LibWhacker
They won’t be that hard to tell apart. If you push the palm of your hand against the Chinese version, it will leave a mark just like those miracle foam mattresses.
To: xcamel
The same as the difference between a BMW and Hillary.
To: caver
Licncoln town car, the melted marshmallow of design.
Too a beautiful land yatch and as if they gave it to the woman who killed oldmobile to fix it...
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:46:37 AM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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