Drove The Chevoo To The Levoo, But The Levoo Was Dry
What would intellectual property lawyers do without China’s Chery? In 2005, a legal dispute between Chery and GM was settled after Chery swore that they would never sell a Chery car in the U.S. – GM took the position that Chery was dangerously close to Chevy. Attorneys, start your accordion file folders, here we go again:
Chery announced today a new brand. This one for new energy cars only. And it goes by the name of Chevoo, says Gasgoo. Chevoo joins a growing stable of Chery brands: Chery, Riich, Rely, Karry, and now Chevoo.
Bertel Schmitt comes back to journalism after taking a 35 year break in advertising and marketing. He ran and owned advertising agencies in Duesseldorf, Germany, and New York City. Volkswagen A.G. was Bertel's most important corporate account. Schmitt's advertising and marketing career touched many corners of the industry with a special focus on automotive products and services. Since 2004, he lives in Japan and China with his wife <a href="http://www.tomokoandbertel.com"> Tomoko </a>. Bertel Schmitt is a founding board member of the <a href="http://www.offshoresuperseries.com"> Offshore Super Series </a>, an American offshore powerboat racing organization. He is co-owner of the racing team Typhoon.
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Blatant thievery I say!!! Maybe we should send the Christian Crusaders to China and they can do what they did to the Americas in the 15 and 16 hundreds. A wholesome group we are...
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Chevoo? Really? They think that's gonna go over here? You know, I understand that native Chinese speakers have different sensibilities and fluency levels. But that's why you hire a freaking American to tell you! Yeah. There was this video card maker, and they had slogans like, "NEW HOPE FOR MILLENNIUM WITH THE FINE JUICY COST!" and "THE GOOD IS HOT, AND THE PRICE IS YAM-YAM!" All right, I get it. You don't know English! Well, for chrissakes, send a top-end video card to some kid in Tulsa every two months, and he'll tell you that "YAM-YAM" doesn't make people want to buy stuff in the US! I don't get it. Willful ignorance combined with ethnocentrism? Or just complete and utter cluelessness? Somehow that seems unlikely; haven't any English-speaking Asian CEOs seen engrish.com? *shrug* Then combine that with the correlation with Chevy being so freaking obvious that it's hard to see it being anything but a deliberate middle finger, and damn - your shipment of fail has arrived.