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    New Chinese Bentley Clone Likely Made Of Lead And Melamine
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    05/12/09

    In reply to New Chinese Bentley Clone Likely Made Of Lead And Melamine
    Hey, I actually clicked on the link, and this car can only get better, because they are going to build a transmission and engine plant in Russia! How's that for some quality?


    Special

    Proletariat

    Iron

    Curtain

    Edition!

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    05/12/09

    In reply to New Chinese Bentley Clone Likely Made Of Lead And Melamine
    On a slightly unrelated matter: Who here wouldn't be at least slightly amused at the prospect of a knockoff Veyron?
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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    05/12/09

    @embodiment: that sounds hilarious, and I would LOVE to see someone build that!
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    05/12/09

    In reply to New Chinese Bentley Clone Likely Made Of Lead And Melamine
    Miley Cyrus get's in trouble for a squinty eye photo, but a Chinese car company makes a squinty eye car and nobody says boo about it. Such a double standard.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    05/12/09

    @engineerd: That's because I don't want to dragon the Chinese car as much as... uh...


    You're right. Double standard.

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    Image of Flathead Smith Flathead Smith
    05/12/09

    In reply to New Chinese Bentley Clone Likely Made Of Lead And Melamine
    How come the pictures look so cheap and pasty?
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    05/12/09

    @Flathead Smith: Photocopied photocopier photocopied photo is photocopied photocopier photocopied photo.


    i.e. bad.

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    05/12/09

    In reply to New Chinese Bentley Clone Likely Made Of Lead And Melamine
    *sigh*... at least they combined two cars this time to make this one so their is at least a sort of originality if only in the details. But really China... still? I thought you learned from my lasts posts on the subject.
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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    05/12/09

    @Bullitt417: I suggest you write a more strongly worded post in the future. Actually, all that'll do is rile up Analyst, so never mind - we already have leavethegun-takethecannoli and .357 fulfilling that duty.
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    Image of Tiberiuswise is all ate up with sarcasm Tiberiuswise is all ate up with sarcasm
    05/12/09

    In reply to New Chinese Bentley Clone Likely Made Of Lead And Melamine
    Stuff like this makes me sleep better at night. It will be a while before Chinese manufacturers are relevent.
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    Image of Woodgrain Woodgrain
    05/12/09

    @Tiberiuswise: In 1988, I travelled from Korea with a shipload of Daewoo (Pontiac) Lemanses. They were unbelievably insubstantial and crappy--much closer to an overbuilt go-cart than a proper car.


    Fast-forward nineteen years to Pebble Beach, where the Hyundai Genesis is attracting quite a bit of attention--and some disbelief--just down the road from the Aston-Martin display.


    It doesn't take long, unfortunately, and these folks are really motivated.

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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    05/12/09

    @Woodgrain: Are you referring to carmakers in general, or Asians, or Koreans/Chinese? Because while there are a few Chinese auto manufacturers that are coming up with new and interesting designs, it seems that many of them are just focusing on mimicking the look of successful cars from other companies in hopes that the positive associations will follow. I think it'll still be a little while before they devote the time, money, and attention needed to increase the safety and quality of their vehicles and feel confident selling their cars on their own merits.
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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    05/12/09

    @Woodgrain: BTW, an "overbuilt go-cart" is probably not the best description to persuade the Jalopnik commentariat that a car is a piece of crap. It actually sounds pretty fun to me!
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    Image of Landau_Calrissian loves our President Camacho. Landau_Calrissian loves our President Camacho.
    05/12/09

    In reply to New Chinese Bentley Clone Likely Made Of Lead And Melamine
    It's spelled MELAMINE.


    And at least none of the internet wits have yet mentioned how it's actually made of "FAIL", sigh.

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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    05/12/09

    @Landau_Calrissian loves our President Camacho.:


    At some point, it just becomes so repetitive that it is already ingrained deep within our psyches, so there is just no need to actually say it.


    We already know.

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    Image of domino domino
    05/12/09

    @Landau_Calrissian loves our President Camacho.: yeah, because nobody corrected him yet. at least nobody that has a penis or a nice rack.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    05/12/09

    In reply to New Chinese Bentley Clone Likely Made Of Lead And Melamine
    I don't see the similarity. Which angle are you talking about?


    The Continental, you say? Maybe if I hold my head this way?

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    05/12/09

    @Deartháir: That ass is pure Continental GT, with the body of a Ford Five Hundred. I can think of no well-known woman terrible enough to compare that to, except for perhaps...well...no. Never mind.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    05/12/09

    @pauljones: Is it maybe in the logo? The two look absolutely nothing alike to me.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    05/12/09

    @Deartháir: Drink more scotch.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    05/12/09

    @pauljones: Hell, you'll look like a Bentley Continental if I have any more of this stuff.
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    05/12/09

    @Deartháir: My scrawny ass could hitherto only dream of such a compliment.
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    05/12/09

    @Deartháir: I hope you're kidding. If you're not:
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    05/12/09

    @Syrax: Apparently I needed to use my /sarcasm tag.
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    05/12/09

    @Deartháir: I just wanted to make sure.
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    05/12/09

    @Syrax:


    Change the grille and the tail lights, and 80-90% of the similarity goes away.

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    05/12/09

    @Analyst: And you're left with a Ford Five Hundred. Still a fail.
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    05/12/09

    @pauljones: They should've waited just a few months and clone the new SHO instead.
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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    05/12/09

    @Analyst: HE'S BAAAAAAAAAAAACK!
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    05/12/09

    @Ln th Jlpchck:

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    05/12/09

    @pauljones: Hey, why don't you 2 get a room!
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    05/12/09

    @Novaload Misses Murilee: We would need a bailout to afford that.
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    05/12/09

    In reply to New Chinese Bentley Clone Likely Made Of Lead And Melamine
    Are Bentley outsourcing now? Oh... Oh ok...


    But that car actually looks better than the Conti.

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    Image of Jagvar Jagvar
    05/12/09

    @Mobius_1:


    I think the Flying Spur would look better with those headlights.

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    05/12/09

    @Jagvar: exactly Contis looks really, well, fat and soft, those lights would make it a little better.


    Or the other appearance package called "Aston Martin Rapide".

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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    05/12/09

    In reply to New Chinese Bentley Clone Likely Made Of Lead And Melamine
    So they knocked off a Ford Five Hundred, then knocked off a Bentley, then knocked off a Rolls Royce, and the result is the Huatai C4?


    You have to hand it those clever Chinese. The come up with the most random and terrible design cue mashes ever.


    Who says the Chinese have no originality?

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    05/12/09

    In reply to New Chinese Bentley Clone Likely Made Of Lead And Melamine
    melamine. :)
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