Dongfeng Copies Cars While They Are Still In The Catalog

by Bertel Schmitt

November 2nd, 2011 10:19 AM

dongfeng copies cars while they are still in the catalog

China’s Dongfeng makes a lot of cars with several joint ventures. It also makes its own cars. In a way. It’s ode to the Hummer is legend. Now, Dongfeng found inspiration in another legend: The Unimog. At a show in Shanghai, Carnewschina found the Dongfeng v-Tiger, or EQ2070FQJ, which it says is a spitting image of Daimler’s inconic Unimog workhorse. Well, that’s up to debate. One thing isn’t:

For the snow-clearing version, Dongfeng didn’t even bother to build a Unimog lookalike. Instead, Dongfeng put real Unimog photos in its own catalog. If the fake Unimog is so close to the original, why bother taking new pictures?

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Mallthus on Nov 03, 2011

I recall reading an article about the Libyan revolution recently. I thought it telling that the author was more concerned about how badly built the Chinese SUV they were in was than the threat of pro-Qaddafi forces.

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Eldard on Nov 03, 2011

Hey, Zara does it. Why not China?

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