Man With Rebadged Red Car Proposes Sex To Japanese

Tycho de Feyter
by Tycho de Feyter

A fiery red car, seen in Beijing. An aggressive bumper sticker, showing the owner is very angry with Japan. Or, judging from the sticker, maybe it’s hot love? It’s all about those islands, which happen to sit on top of oil, and straight in one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. What is this motherland-loving man driving?

He drives a BYD F0, which happens to be a copy of the Toyota Aygo. This we can explain as a brave act of defiance, as in not just nooky Nipponese, jazz Japanese trademarks!

With that out of the way, let us proceed to the front of:

Cool, cartoons. But what about bout the badge on the grille?!?

It’s a fake Scion badge! Scion is a Toyota-brand, marketed in the US. This we cannot explain as a brave act of battle, oh no, this is treason to the Chinese case. The owner should have kept the righteous BYD badge.

Loser …

Dutchman Tycho de Feyter runs Carnewschina.com, a blog about cars in China, from Beijing, China. He also collects die-cast models of Chinese cars.

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  • Hgrunt Hgrunt on Mar 13, 2013

    Looks like the Hella Flush aesthetic, where people paint their wheels weird colors, cover random body panels with tons of stickers, and put things on their roof rack, has made it over to China.

    • Pig_Iron Pig_Iron on Mar 14, 2013

      Daniel Stern doesn’t mind Hella, but prefers Cibie. ;-) I had a summer student who did just what you're talking about to his Ford Probe, complete with silver paint hand brushed onto the intrerior vinyl. He was sooo proud - I didn't have the heart to tell him otherwise. He got a ticket for his coffee can exhaust noise. Luckily for him we had an accredited sound lab with calibrated equipment. He was just below the threshold, and his ticket was dismissed in court. He probably has a family now and a bone stock gray compact CUV.

  • Big Al from Oz Big Al from Oz on Mar 13, 2013

    The Chinese want resources and more control of resources. This is understandable as the West more or less has done the same. That region of the South China Sea including the Sprately Islands has had contentious claims for quite a long time now. As China and SE Asia modernise these issue will become more prevalent. Historically China, Japan, Korea and SE Asia have had power struggles just like Europe. I hope the problems can be resolved fairly and without a war.

  • Slavuta Inflation creation act... 2 thoughts1, Are you saying Biden admin goes on the Trump's MAGA program?2, Protectionism rephrased: "Act incentivizes automakers to source materials from free-trade-compliant countries and build EVs in North America"Question: can non-free-trade country be a member of WTO?
  • EBFlex China can F right off.
  • MrIcky And tbh, this is why I don't mind a little subsidization of our battery industry. If the American or at least free trade companies don't get some sort of good start, they'll never be able to float long enough to become competitive.
  • SCE to AUX Does the WTO have any teeth? Seems like countries just flail it at each other like a soft rubber stick for internal political purposes.
  • Peter You know we’ve entered the age of self driving vehicles When KIAs go from being stolen to rolling away by themselves.
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