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Veteran Tremekian
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Stop rubbing your eyes and start cracking up a smile on your lips, cause this is no photoshop, it's a copyshop! Once again, the Chinese automakers are doing their best to amaze us with there ingenuity ! This time the victim is the Smart Fortwo and the victimizer is Shandong Huoyun, a subsidiary of the Qilu Petrochemical Corporation.
As Autobild reported, Smart boss Ulrich Walker was caught completely off guard when the magazine contacted him about the Chinese plagiarism. While the exterior looks of the car a complete knockoff, the interior and the mechanical parts are different -guess that makes it ok for the Chinese... Anyway, instead of having a petrol motor, as its name implicates, the HuoYun Electromobile gets an electric motor that's good enough according to the Chinese to give it a max range of 120 km / 75 miles and a top speed of 50 km/h / 31 mph. OFFICIAL SPECIFICATIONS Passenger capacity : 2 people Range (loaded) : 120 km Max. speed : 55 km/h Power : 6.5kw Wheel base : 1.800 mm Wheel track : 1235/1320 mm Minimum turning radius : 4 m Max. climbing ability (loaded) : 30% Overall dimensions : 2.510 x 1.515 x 1.530 mm Max. loading weight: 500 kg No-load weight : 1.000 kg http://www.supercars.net/PitLane?vie...D=1&tID=105390 At least the real Smart has Brabus tuning! Hahahah!
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Veteran Tremekian
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I saw one of a Isuzu/Opel Frontera SUV knockoff they tried to sell in Europe (netherlands I think)
It seems that that chinese SUV had a special feature: Upon crashing the SUV turned into a yoga class, by making the drivers knees reach his face... They say its made out of metal, but on impact that SUV bended like paper, I mean, the car bended has far as the B pilar...
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Fanatic Tremekian
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If the car crushed to the B pillar that's ridiculous they are allowed to produce something like that, that's death for the driver and the passenger. I've seen egg cartons with better crumple protection.
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