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Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

swifty949 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:13:25 EDT

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

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

swifty949

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

skulldriveshaft — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:18:09 EDT

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?

skulldriveshaft

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

NovaloadMissesPolar — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:02:09 EDT

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."

NovaloadMissesPolar

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

chairmanofthebored — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:05:31 EDT

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.

chairmanofthebored

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

tekdemon — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:34:20 EDT

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

Who wouldn't want their very own F1 racer?

tekdemon

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

oldskoolparts — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:24:33 EDT

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

oldskoolparts

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

muleshoe — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:43:00 EDT

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

muleshoe

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

smokyburnout — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:23:27 EDT

@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.

smokyburnout

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

944turb0 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:29:51 EDT

Those dinky malibu gokarts could probably outrun it.

944turb0

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

yellofury * * * * * — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:23:53 EDT

@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

yellofury * * * * *

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

Smells_Homeless — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:32:05 EDT

The only F1 team running on leaded gas.

Smells_Homeless

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

Prilldonious — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:16:18 EDT

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

Prilldonious

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

P161911 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:57:29 EDT

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

P161911

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

wohho — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:20:38 EDT

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

wohho

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

DonModro — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:57:28 EDT

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

DonModro

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

Unevolved 8.04 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:44:57 EDT

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

Unevolved 8.04

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

FLB — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:13:28 EDT

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

FLB

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

graverobber- Two BEER minimum — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:03:18 EDT

@El Bentomino SS: Agreed.

Air high-five man!

graverobber- Two BEER minimum

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

Indiana Bento and the lost Temple of Citroens — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:53:51 EDT

@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

Indiana Bento and the lost Temple of Citroens

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

[ ELÇEVEN ] — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:41:11 EDT

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

[ ELÇEVEN ]

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

Lackey — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:37:42 EDT

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!

Lackey

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

Mark Arnold — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:35:35 EDT

@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.

Mark Arnold

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

muleshoe — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:32:55 EDT

geeeWHISS a Chineecse Nock off

muleshoe

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

graverobber- Two BEER minimum — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:30:38 EDT

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.

graverobber- Two BEER minimum

Geely To Make Chinese Rip-Off Of Ferrari F1 Car?

FLB — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:30:34 EDT

@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)

FLB