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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
They don’t look alike to me, and anybody who can’t tell a Beemer from Chinese junk deserves what they get.
To: DCPatriot
You first..
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:49:13 AM PDT
by
xcamel
(FDT/2008 -- talk about it >> irc://irc.freenode.net/fredthompson)
To: VOA
When my dad was buying stuff for the Army & Air Force in 1950s Far East, a manufacturer offered some machine parts that were made in USA. Usa was a tiny Japanese fishing village that might have had three or four hibachis but no manufacturing capability...
To: VOA
Give 'em time. Because similar things were being said about "Jap junk" only a couple of decades ago. LOL ... well, as just one example - the ChiComms have been trying to manufacture an AK47 knockoff for decades, and to this very day, it's still crap and likely to be that way for the foreseeable future.
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:49:59 AM PDT
by
mgc1122
To: PeteB570
...I think every since the 80s most cars have been mind melding into look-a-likes....<They all look like bars of soap with wheels to me.
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:50:11 AM PDT
by
FReepaholic
(Vini ,Vidi, VD: I Came, I Saw, I Cankered)
To: Brakeman
They copy everything and when they don’t have ever clear they use antifreeze, and human waste for fertilizer.
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:50:31 AM PDT
by
boomop1
(there you go again)
To: Always Right
Exactly.
Do a google images search of Kia SUV. Or Hyundai SUV.
Those South Korean SUV’s are knock-off, too.
To: PAR35
They dont look any more alike that any other two SUVs in that size range. You could not be more hopelessly wrong.
The dominant design cue on the BMW X series SUVs is the stong concave curve just under the rear window. This is unique to BMW, and strongly diffentiates them from other manufacturers.
The copying of this design cue, along with the very similar taillight treatment, glass shape and rear bumper make it abundantly clear that CEO is knocking off the BMW design.
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:54:23 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(You cannot coexist with somebody who wants you dead.)
To: xcamel
Um, the pricks make jokes about the people who drive them?
Wait, that's not it. Uh, the pricks would rather drive a p.o.s. pickup truck with a picture of Calvin peeing on a Ford or Chevy logo in the back window, and chew tobacco and spit into an empty beer can while they're driving over to pick up their cousin for a "date"?
No, that's not it either...
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:54:47 AM PDT
by
Sicon
To: rottndog
If a Western comapny knocked off anything the ChiComs made they would sue, and win, we in the West do nothing.
We in the West are indeed “stuck on stupid”.
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:55:38 AM PDT
by
padre35
(Conservative in Exile.)
To: 1Old Pro
What’s the big deal now. The Japaneses have been doing this for years.
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:56:50 AM PDT
by
Roklok
To: LibWhacker
So...how much does it go for?
If it offends the rednecks and the metrosexuals equally, it may be worth the entertainment value to buy one!
Just saying.
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:58:08 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
To: xcamel
See ya when you can post again...
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:58:35 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
To: mgc1122
Parts will start breaking off after a few uses like most of the chinese crap I have.
To: padre35
We in the West are indeed stuck on stupid.
Agreed.
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posted on
08/28/2007 11:59:49 AM PDT
by
rottndog
(Government is a necessary evil, but as with all evils, the less of it the better.)
To: I_like_good_things_too
Let’s just hope those parts that break off don’t poison our dogs.
To: Plutarch
IIRC, they copied it so thoroughly, that there was even a “Boeing” emblem on the control wheel ;)
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posted on
08/28/2007 12:01:57 PM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: xcamel
Whats the difference between a BMW and a porcupine....
Oldie but a goody. :) Oh, how I do love the M3, though.
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posted on
08/28/2007 12:02:33 PM PDT
by
L98Fiero
(A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
To: caver
a taurus looks like a bar of dove soap, maybe sweetheart soap from the vermont country store catalog
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posted on
08/28/2007 12:02:55 PM PDT
by
Taffini
(Mr. Pippin and Mr. Waffles do not approve)
To: LibWhacker
How can they tell it's knockoff?
They both look like every other nondescript car on the road these days.
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posted on
08/28/2007 12:11:22 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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