Revenge of the Trabant

[Mich the Tester]

So some Chinese company is now building a luxury car; am I the only one who thinks it looks like a Trabant on steroids?


http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20140...-expensive-car

[vetran]

So some Chinese company is now building a luxury car; am I the only one who thinks it looks like a Trabant on steroids?


http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20140...-expensive-car

link is for foreigners only!

[Mich the Tester]

link is for foreigners only!

It's called a HongQi (pronounced; Honkey), and looks like this;

[Mich the Tester]

It's a shame they copied the wheels from a 90's Daimler. I might have to get some new alloys now.

[vetran]

Rover sired an old Bentley.
Very ugly also would fail EU safety test I guess.

[doodab]

That is not a nice looking car. I guess the chinese have different tastes

[northernladuk]

Did anyone point out to them the word 'honkey' is a derogatory word for a Caucasian person?

Maybe we ought to design a new car and call it slanty in retaliation....

[Mich the Tester]

I wonder why they copied the headlights off the 1959 Ford Anglia.

You can't compare it to the 1959 Ford Anglia; that's beyond comparison.

[doodab]

You can't compare it to the 1959 Ford Anglia; that's beyond comparison.

But strikingly similar

[stek]

I find that once you've had a Chinese car, you want another straight away....