I hope I don’t hit the cheap copy while riding my Mongoose, I might split it in half.

mercedes copied bmw 3-series with new e-class, rofl idiot hypocrites. anyways, the cinese car has a significant difference.

Mercedes has never copied BMW, never, you wish, they both have very distinctive designs. Lexus copied Mercedes. The Smart and the other POS do look alike, very alike, someone who doesn’t know much about cars might confuse them.

how different can you be when the car is 6 feet long?

good luck gm got nowhere on their lawsuit, remember the cost of doing business with the commies, morons.

how in the hell can it sit 4 people anyway?

“anyways, the Chinese car has a significant difference.”

Yea, it will be about 0.5% as safe as the actual Smart. As far as the legal action, come on, the company is called “China Automobile Deutschland”, could they make it any more blatantly obvious that they’re simply ripping off the car?

I can’t stand the Chinese automobile industry, it’s pathetic to a new extreme. I can’t recall any cars making any waves in safety circles unless they fail tragically (which they seem to do more often than not), and every single one of them is either HORRIBLY designed aesthetically, or the most derivative piece of crap ever built.

Fail harder China.

Its a four seater ? so what size do you have to be to fit in the back seat of that sucker 2 foot 6 inches.. come on…

Well, it is a Chinese car…people are shorter there, y’know.

I saw a picture of a car from a Chinese company that “copied” the CTS…hilarious.

I would think that Noble Automobiles is cringing for CAD using the trademarked “Noble” name.

Mercedes should put up the money to send the Noble piece of crap throught the Ncap safety test and show the world how unsafe the chinese cars really are. Publicise the results through any sort of media in this world and show the chinese cars to the world for the unsafe crap they really are.

Lightspeed - stay off what whatever you taking cos it ain’t any good for you. Just humour me and tell me when Mercedes copied BMW. BMW on the other hand always tends to copy Mercedes into ever segment e.g. M-class, R-class, A-class, CLS etc.

Have you seen these 10 other cars:

http://gemssty.com/2006/10/29/top-10-copycat-cars/

1. Daewoo Matiz vs Chery QQ
2. Vauxhall Frontera vs Landwind
3. Honda CRV vs Laibao SRV
4. Mercedes C vs Geely Merrie 300
5. Neoplan Starliner vs Zonda A9
6. Rolls-Royce Phantom vs Hongqi HQD
7. Smart vs er. Chinese Smart
8. Toyota Prado vs Dadi Shuttle
9. Nissan XTrail vs Greatwall Sing
10. BMW 7 vs BYD F6

-shahedc
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chinese auto company named deutschland?? hahaha wtf

Well, it doesn’t have the safety cell of the Fortwo…

I agree, let’s put it through safety tests and publish the results.

WOW! The Chinese are blatant rip-offs!!How can they justify this now?

Sigh…can’t the Chinese invent anything on their own anymore? No wonder they all look the same. I know they invented the compass and gun powder a thousand years ago (IIRC), but it’s time to start innovating again. This copying bullsh*t really has got to stop!

light speed - chinese car does NOT have a significant different. The so called auto industry in china has been stealing designs of american, euro, and jap designs for some time now. I applaud Mercedes for considering to sue, everyone else has been too scared to do so because the China market it booming and they’re afraid the Communist party might do something if they sue.

I really hope Benz sues them, so should Chevrolet, so should Toyota, and many many others.

Wow—that IS a pretty blatant rip-off. I don’t blame Mercedes for considering a law suit. But given the video that circulating on the internet a few weeks ago about the Chinese car in the German crash test, contemplating a head-on with ANYthing else in this Chinese car is a truly frightening thought!

It’ll be interesting to see, once the Chinese-made domestic branded cars start to show up on these shores, what peoples’ reactions to them well be. Again, considering all the negative stories about China’s quality control issues lately, I would think it’d be a tough sell convincing people that they really ARE safe.

LMFAO. China cracks me up.

What’ll be better is when they crash test it and it is safer than the original Smart car for have the cash.

Btw the way, if you want to see some REAL copying, look at how the Pontiac Vibe design was blatantly stolen by Toyota to make the Matrix. The clear imitation is worse than anything China ever did.

RicardoHead, are you serious? GM and Toyota have an alliance in which they worked together on the Matrix and Vibe. In fact, over 95% of the parts are shared. The cars are not copied, they’re damn near identical (down to parts suppliers, engines, transmissions, interior materials, stereos, etc.).

Still, the Toyota holds its value a tad bit better… go figure.

I am so sick of Chinese products.

I am so sick of the horrible quality.

I am so sick of the half-arse copycats.

I am so sick of the slave labor.

I am just so sick of it. If I had the choice to, I would surely boycott all of China’s products- but another thing I’m sick of, it’s in everything! This very keyboard I’m typing on is most likely manufacturered and assembled in China!

And don’t you DARE give me bullsh*t about being racist, I am so sick of people using that as a defense.

Like I said, crash the damn thing; put it through the moose test, do whatever you can to humiliate the damned designers. Sue their arses into the ground. I have looked at many of their products, and you know what? NOTHING is the least bit original, not a single body panel, headlight or even NAME on these vehicles you cannot attribute to a historic model.

SUE THEM! **** these chinese companies. Copying the **** out of everyone.

“many cars that look alike on the road these days”- One of them is the original, one is chinese

and everything else i want to say, jJayC08 already said it

Did BMW take legal action when Shuanghuan copied their X5, called SCEO in China, with a price of around USD15,000 for the base model. check out the website http://auto.sina.com.cn/photo/shceoxxw/index.shtml

Legal action in China means paying off the judges and the government officials.

You payoff the biggest dog and you win your case.

No pay. No win.

i think this in Germany so its more civilized ^

lol shahedc, the reason i looked at your post was that it contained “zonda”…only to find that “zonda” was a bus

GOD DAMN ****ING CHINESE YOU SUCK AT MAKING CARS

Maybe Mercedes could get Mattel to include this as one of the nine million Chinese made toys they are recalling.

will this suit be heard in a chinese court?

In china, someone came up with a mechanical copy of a grand cherokee and sold it for $10K

R-head: vibe and matrix are made at the NUMMI plant in NorCal

jJay, A4: would you get horizontal with Zhang Ziyi? If so, you’re probably not racist.

Women love me in china. That’s why all chineese look alike … they all look like me (John Lovitz)

Ward: mattel contrated for those toys

That top ten comparison is awesome. I love the BYD logo that rips off BMW. And the MB copy is awesome, really well done!