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It's A Jeep! No, It's A Hummer! No, It's The Beijing Auto Works B60!

We really should have taken a flight out to Beijing this week for the auto show. Given Chinese automakers fantastic ability to ~~copy~~ flatter every design they can get their hands on. We're beginning to believe non-Chinese automakers should just enter into agreements with their Chinese partners — like what they do with Russian automakers — to allow them to just have the designs for a nominal fee. Like Beijing Auto Works — the company that built the original military-version Chinese knock-off to the Jeep, the BJ2036 (the BJ stands for Beijing Jeep, get your mind out of the gutter). That Jeep wannabe was built in a joint venture with Chrysler, so everything was hunky-dory. BAW no longer has that joint venture in place, but that hasn't stopped them from building a civilian version of the big off-road BJ, the Beijing Auto Works B60. As you can see...

...here, the civilian version takes into consideration the fact they've no longer got an agreement with Chrysler — by dropping a different grille on the front and a somewhat more slab-sided approach to sheet metal — atop what's obviously a derivative of a Jeep Wrangler. It's like looking at the misbegotten offspring resulting from the sexual congress of an LJ Jeep and a midget-sized H1. Oh lord, the horror, the horror. [The Tycho]

9:20 AM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Ray Wert
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layabout at 09:30 AM on 04/21/08
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Oh fuck! not another clone from the Chinese auto industry.
Ash78 at 09:34 AM on 04/21/08
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So the "Hummer" is ripped off and becomes the "BJ"? And you call this coincidence?

I guess that's better than copying an icon like the Rand Lover Defender (Ashtlas Shrugs)
Isetta at 09:36 AM on 04/21/08
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Five slots in the grill and not seven; the Chinese must be slipping.
Hoser Dave at 09:38 AM on 04/21/08
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This thing should fold like a take out menu in a crash test.
POLAЯZSMAЯTAMINO at 09:39 AM on 04/21/08
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So is the guy with the white gloves performing cavity searches
to see if they can find something more worthy of copying?
OldeEnglishD at 09:43 AM on 04/21/08
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I bet the Beijing show is a lot like the Bizarro episode of Seinfeld. Everything looks very familiar, yet somehow just a teeny bit off.....
Unevolved: Whoop! at 09:46 AM on 04/21/08
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But I mean, honestly, if I was going to shamelessly ape a certain vehicle's architecture, it'd be a Jeep. I mean, look at it. Body-on-frame, two solid axles, I mean, the thing's an anachronism on wheels. And that's why I love it.
DoggieDaddy at 09:49 AM on 04/21/08
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Confucius say B60 no substitute for BJ.
nsjames at 09:50 AM on 04/21/08
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I wonder if it's got a Harbor Freight winch on the front?
muleshoe at 09:53 AM on 04/21/08
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That thing Blow as Bad as the yeller Porche Sucks
JB_Jeep at 09:55 AM on 04/21/08
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Is that silver one to the left a Cherokee knockoff too?
$Image of Dr.Danger\'s got it all$ Dr.Danger's got it all at 09:55 AM on 04/21/08
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@AshHole78: They had to call it BJ because the name "gay deep throated angry demon" wouldn't fit on the car.
Ineterwebguy at 09:56 AM on 04/21/08
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Ok Hummers are Junk the pepole who do own them just have to much money and they don't know what to do with it.
Avge Price In the US to fill that thing is well over $100s with the price of gas going up I fear for who owns them.
It dose look like a jeep wannabe let me ask the question would you feel safe getting in a accident in that thing I think not
muleshoe at 09:57 AM on 04/21/08
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@Dr.Danger's got nards: Touche man Touche
Ash78 at 09:59 AM on 04/21/08
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@Dr.Danger's got nards: the name "gay deep throated angry demon" wouldn't fit on the car.

Good point...but I think in Chinese, that's like a single character.
yellofury * * * * * at 09:59 AM on 04/21/08
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loving the 80s dash with the rubber ripple shift boot..nice
POLAЯZSMAЯTAMINO at 10:19 AM on 04/21/08
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The soon to be new addition to this weekend's
Uber Lesbian Commenter Calraigh's driveway.
Complete with "Soccer MomS" and "I Heart To Drive Bush"
bumper stickers.
Bentos, Der Frischmacher! at 10:23 AM on 04/21/08
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Chinese Hummer + Chinese Jeep = Chinese Heap!
$Image of Dr.Danger\'s got it all$ Dr.Danger's got it all at 10:28 AM on 04/21/08
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@AshHole78:
同性恋深魔喉咙愤怒
muleshoe at 10:34 AM on 04/21/08
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@POLAЯ PAPAL EDITION: Msn sometimes you hvae to be politically correct. Those are women in comfortable shoes...Or lesbos.
acarr260 at 10:36 AM on 04/21/08
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@JB_Jeep: I saw that and thought the same thing. I work for an OEM supplier and I've seen some nasty ripoffs from China. An exec from Auburn Gear came back with a gear that looked identical to one of their own. He took it to their durability lab for testing upon his return to Indiana. He didn't make it back to his office before the technician called ot tell him that his test was done... and the gear was in pieces all over the testing machine. Metallurgy is apparently not up to par at all over there.
Novaload at 10:38 AM on 04/21/08
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@AshHole78: Time out for you. Five minutes in the penalty box for Extreme Literary Reference plus Bad Pun.
bola47 at 10:42 AM on 04/21/08
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looks like a cross between a jeep cj and a land rover defender.
$Image of Dr.Danger\'s got it all$ Dr.Danger's got it all at 11:40 AM on 04/21/08
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This thing sucks
sos10 at 11:43 AM on 04/21/08
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@Dr.Danger's got nards: like Linda Lovelace?
boognish at 12:01 PM on 04/21/08
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BJ.... HUMMER... COME ON!!! I cant tell if thats a tongue in cheek joke, or engrish, or coincidence, or a nod to acknowledging that its a copy of the hummer, but really? Really?
$Image of Dr.Danger\'s got it all$ Dr.Danger's got it all at 12:08 PM on 04/21/08
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Too late...AshHole78 already got that one.
SupermotoThud at 12:30 PM on 04/21/08
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I've never heard of "Buckshot" tires...looks like BFG Mud Terrain rip-offs too
acarr260 at 12:38 PM on 04/21/08
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@SupermotoThud: I've had buckshot tires on an ATV before (back in the 90's). They do look like mud terrains though. The next thing they'll add are beadlocks I would guess.
M0L0TOV at 02:28 PM on 04/21/08
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The front looks like a mix of the LR Defender with a Jeepesque grill thrown in for good measure. The side profile is definitely Wranglerish. I'm a bit confused though, didn't Beijing Jeep turn into Beijing-Benz DaimlerChrysler Automotive a few years ago?[en.wikipedia.org]
Branden.Tang at 03:39 PM on 04/21/08
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The Hyundais in the background get my praise for best display in an autoshow...
Mazda-Eric-with-1cup-a... at 03:42 PM on 04/21/08
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"A New BJ From Beijing"

hehehehe...BJ
skulldriveshaft at 08:45 PM on 04/21/08
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The Virus has spread.