Monday, January 21, 2008

The Yao Ming Effect

The Chinese are taking over, ladies and gentlemen. Plain and simple. The economy is shifting to the Chinese but that's neither here nor there so I'll stay focused on what I want to talk about, that being the influx of Chinese automobiles into America.

At the Detroit Autoshow last week, ChangFeng Motors made the trek to Michigan after making a showing last year to unveil a new batch of cars they have lined up to be sold in the US very soon. This year, they displayed some cars that had a stark resemblance to many cars that we've come to know in America. Here are the lookalikes. You make the deduction.

The Leopard CS6 (similar to the Hyundai Santa Fe?):





The Kylin:





Here are a few others:

The Geely HIFUN (Cadillac, anyone?)



BYD F8 (*ahem* Mercedes *ahem*)



The grim news is that as time has shown us, the Chinese will continue to do what has been done but do it a hundred times better. I wonder if I get some leniency during their takeover for being 1/4 Chinese.

-Rack of Lam




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