The Chinese must have a robotic cloning machine... There is way to much cloning going on here...

Coming soon to a Sharper Image near you...

Geely is giving a whole new meaning to the Locost

This was a BIG conclusion to jump. It's far more likely that Geely will spend millions to sponsor an F1 team.

@FLAT4-PΩWER ™: No. They're making one. I saw it on the intarnets.

@FLAT4-PΩWER ™: That doesn't always work. BMW is showing that buying a team can pay off... if you let the competent racing people stay (Honda, I'm looking at you).

Cubic money doesn't guarantee success, either (see under Toyota, slow as a)

Ya'll remember that movie, The Thing? Not the '50s one with Marshal Matt Dillon, but the John Carpenter one? You remember how the monster could take the shape of anything once it had touched it? Yeah?

Well, I think it's now running a Chinese car company.

geeeWHISS a Chineecse Nock off

@FLAT4-PΩWER ™: Who's jumping to conclusions? Nobody has any idea what this is. It's funny to joke around about a Geely F1 team, but I personally doubt this will be anything more than a plastic mock-up to impress oblivious spectators at the Beijing Motor Show.

Forget the car. I'm more interested in what all those acronyms mean: BMBS, EEBS, RFS-7, CAS, GDI, CVVT? WTF? Must be that central government thing surfacing. Geely FTW!

@Mark Arnold: I don't know? It has CVVT, BMBS, and EEBS. So you see, they have not skimped on the BS.

@graverobber- Same great taste, new low price!:

The last line as the head walks away...thats what I said when I saw a Chinese F1 car

+ Watch video

@El Bentomino SS: Agreed.

Air high-five man!

Judging by the aero... they're five years behind the ball.

@El Bentomino SS: What the... hell?

@El Bentomino SS: This is why I love this place.

@El Bentomino SS: John Carpenter is either the most demented psychopath the world has ever known, or its greatest cinematic genius.

So is it 1:24, 1:18, or 1:12?

Scuderia Toro Rosso is for sale, so who knows, they'd make pretty back-markers.

The only F1 team running on leaded gas.

@wohho: cant he be both???
call me SNAKE....

anyways until the Chinese make:

a.)a car that doesn't turn to dust in a head on collision
b.)a car that doesn't look like a dragon
c.)create a labor environment that can lead to death

I will just buy the lead based soap

Those dinky malibu gokarts could probably outrun it.

@Prilldonious: Super Aguri will be dead in the water if they don't get a new investor/owner within the next two days, so they might be more open to a bid by Chery...
and i bet they totally asked Bridgestone before "borrowing" the Pontenza logo.

This is only the prototype. The realthing has room for 5 germanhookers in back

flattery by imitation? try telling that to the thousands of disney's lawyers who will set upon you if you mimick any disney property

lol, they should make it street legal and $30,000.

Who wouldn't want their very own F1 racer?

I don't think this is meant for F1. The article calls it a "Formula Race Car". My guess is that it is meant to be a spec car for a "Formula Geely" series.

Sad, really.

"Hey, we'll get to party very, very late--about a century late, about the time people no longer exclusively worship big engine/fossil fuel but we'll catch up fast because we made a Great Leap Forward by copying everybody. Next year we are coming out with a Terraplane! And after that a mainline. And then I think we will leap straight to the Corvair."

why not?

it's not like F1 has run out of spaces for money to be burned by the ton.

The bigger question is, who would drive?

bah, it won't pass the crash tests...

As for the rumors, Photoshop doesn't exist and everything on the Internet is true.