Now that Christmas is over, the Chinese can get back to making things you won't find at Wal-Mart — like an armored attack vehicle with a turret based on a reverse-engineered Army HMMWV (Hummer H1 to us civvies).

So the Shanghai Motor Show continues in China and, I gotta say, it's probably more fun than New York. For instance, most traces of Hummer have vanished from the U.S. but the Dongfeng Crazy Soldier* is still proudly on display.

Now that Hummer is dead, Chinese automaker Dongfeng's ripoff version needs to amp up the masculine sales pitch. The male model doing his thing works, but the whitewall tires and sunny paint job just end up sending a mixed message.

Dongfeng, makers of the awesome Crazy Soldier Hummer Clone, brought this militarized version of their minivan to Shanghai this week. Is there a Chinese version of the A-Team?

The Dongfeng Crazy Soldier is China's answer to the Hummer. And by "answer" we mean, of course, direct copy. True to its military roots the truck is referred to as the "crazy solider," which we'e been told is meant to be "crazy fearless" not "crazy insane."

We sometimes wonder if the people at Dongfeng, worried about being made fun of their first name, decided to make an impenetrable alphanumeric name for their ugly coupe. Or maybe they just screwed up and let their TV division name the car. Either way, nothing rolls off the tongue like the EQ7240BP. [The Tycho]

When you imagine what it's like to work for a state-run Chinese media television station you probably think of repression, ambition and deflection. This Dongfeng Hummer clone satellite truck proves you were right.