Look, with a population of 1.375 Billion it’s quite likely that some people in China might look somewhat alike. That of course is the likely reason that many, many, many, many of the country’s automotive products also look almost exactly very much like products in other countries.
Chinese automotive knockoffs are about as to be expected today as is politicians feigning ignorance on basic tenets of knowledge. What we all know is that the Chinese cars trying to be all that they can be – as long as someone else has already been that – is a hoot. In fact, as long as we don’t have to drive them it’s pretty much no contact, no foul.
The thing of it is, something unexpected has happened of late and it seems that the Chinese automakers are no longer content to work within the shadows of other companies. Not only that, but as they flex their design muscles – so long suppressed by the Xeroxing of the competition – that they’re actually doing some excellent work. Just look at the Ranger X above which obviously takes inspiration from the Tesla Model S, but is in fact a more interesting design. Of course, we’re not interested in those today. What we want to know is which one of the copy cars do you think looks better than its inspiration? I’ll bet you didn’t see that coming!
Image: Car and Driver