Chinese company copies F150
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I think the article is misleading at best. It's a mid-sized truck. From the pics I've seen of it, it borrows styling cues from all of the USA branded trucks, not just the F150. It also does not sport any safety items or crash protection that users worldwide have come to expect from a USA made truck. While I'm sure they will sell a few it won't take the buyers long to figure out it's Chinese crap on wheels.
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Then again the market for them, towing 3 tons is not something people do with an individual's pickup. Individual owners do not have 2 tons worth of stuff in total in their house, let alone one thing that weights that much. This is a US centric thing.
China is trying to shift to a consumption based economy, rather than relying on only exports at this moment in the cycle, which asks the question why wait so long to build this. Guess they will not be making 1M of them per year.
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One thing we can be sure of. They won't crash test nearly as well as the real deal. If it's like every other Chinese knock off, one will have to scrape a thin layer of what's left of it off the barrier they crash it into. Sad, but true.
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Yes, crash testing doesn't go well with Their cars and trucks.
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This is really not surprising.
http://www.torquenews.com/106/check-...sion-ford-f150
And you shouldn't be surprised that they managed to sell 10,000 cars. It's simply because they are selling it very cheap. At about 16,000 dollars. And the buyers love it. They are getting getting a vehicle that looks like one of the bestselling trucks in the world and they are doing so for about the price of a Ford Fiesta.
Over the past few years, the Chinese auto industry has offered up a seemingly endless trail of junky, low quality vehicles that are very obviously knock-offs of vehicles from other automakers. From Toyota to Bentley, Chinese automakers have made their own versions of popular cars for their domestic market and in some cases, automakers have taken legal action over their vehicle designs being ripped off. Ford Motor Company has made it very clear in the past few years that they do not take their trademark rights lightly – going so far as to go after Ferrari for naming one of their open wheel race cars the F150 as a celebration of 150 years of Ferrari performance. Ford pursued legal action over someone using the F150 name on a race car that wasn’t sold to the public, so you would have to think that the Motor Company isn’t too pleased about a Chinese company selling a cheap knock off of the bestselling vehicle in the USA.
And you shouldn't be surprised that they managed to sell 10,000 cars. It's simply because they are selling it very cheap. At about 16,000 dollars. And the buyers love it. They are getting getting a vehicle that looks like one of the bestselling trucks in the world and they are doing so for about the price of a Ford Fiesta.