Cheap Chinese Prado knockoffs

[lawrance Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close lawrance]

http://www.bddqc.com.cn/english/pdt.asp?newsid=27

and

http://paultan.org/topics/cars/malaysia ... /lmg-auto/

Wow, that's got to be a basis for a lawsuit on copyright!

:roll:

[dhr29 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close dhr29]

They realy have no shame do they?
I like to optional imatation leather steering wheel such western decadence!

[Chippy Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chippy]

A 2.4 L Mitsubishi engine ... you're right .. they have no shame !


or


9. Luxurious head lamp

I want a set of these .. I wonder if I can import them :lol: :lol:


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Chippy

[clifton Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close clifton]

Hey Chippy, check out the power and Torque Figures for the 4cyl petrol :?:

[Chippy Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chippy]

It's a stump pulling monster ... to be sure :lol: :lol:

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Chippy

[McBAIN Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close McBAIN]

that is amazing!

i wonder how many spare parts we'll be able to pick up now for 3 parts of bugger all cost!

[Chippy Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chippy]

What about a cheap new Satnav :lol: :lol:

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Chippy

[McBAIN Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close McBAIN]

definately!

i am on the hunt for roof racks now.. they are next on my list of items to source as cheaply as possible...

[jeff s Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close jeff s]

Looks like someone was going through the bins outside Toyota and picked themselves up some moulds and dies.
Or did toyota steal them from the chinese and malaysians???????

[SSbaby Member Find all posts View Profile Close SSbaby]

They realy have no shame do they?
I like to optional imatation leather steering wheel such western decadence!

You mean, just like Toyota shamelessly copied Mercedes when the Lexus LS was conceived?

It works both ways. Everyone copies everyone. Arguably, that's how Billy Gates also did it.

[sangmkiv Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close sangmkiv]

I remember when the Prado came out in response to Pajero getting big numbers.

Still.... not as identical as these puppies.

[dhr29 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close dhr29]

There's a big difference between following a successful marking exercise of another company and blatently copying design specifications and engineering devlopment with no real effort your part.
This is just another example of reverse engineering which they claim to be a coincidence.
They obviously have an infinite number of moneys designing cars to come up with that one.
As for Toyota copying Mercedes they may have done that in the past but considering Toyota products seem to get better each year whilst the other seems to follow the trend of most products from that once great manufacturing nation I don't think so.
Yes I do know the MLs are made in the USA the same goes for GDR as well.

[MattWhite Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close MattWhite]

A bit off topic but a recent survey of Germans voted Hyundai's there most reliable car! I would believe it too, we've had a couple of M class's in at work and we hide from 'em. Just rubbish!

[lawrance Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close lawrance]

Sounds like the Koreans are now emulating what the Japanese did in the past, i.e. build quality into a product and win new friends.

Who knows, one day, the next four wheel drive you buy could be a Korean made one. And it may not be cheap either! :shock:

[MUMSRIG Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close MUMSRIG]

You'll probably find that those littl Chinese buggers payed Toyota a shit load of money to be a ble to utilise their design. Toyota would surely being changing this model soonish anywayz so why would they care?

My two cents.

I bet the buils quality is crap though!