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Unbelievable: China’s Great Wall Motors Patents Toyota Ractis Clone Design in Europe!
Oh the irony; China’s Great Wall Motors whose GWPeri minicar was recently banned from Europe because its appearance was ruled to be too similar to that of the Fiat Panda, has successfully managed to patent the design of the Feel Free minivan at the European Patent Office! Now, the reason that we’re surprised is that Great Wall Motor’s Feel Free minivan that was shown in pre-production form earlier this year at the Beijing Show is essentially a generic copy of the Toyota Ractis, a subcompact minivan that’s based on the Yaris minicar and sold in Japan. Don’t believe us? Then just check the photo album after the jump. As with the GWPeri, the Chinese automaker’s design team (…) simply made a few alterations to the front and rear end styling of the Ractis and presto; the all new Feel Free (to copy) minivan. We can’t even begin to imagine how awkward the Toyota folks must feel after this development… -Continued
Great Wall Motors Feel Free Patent Designs
Toyota Ractis Minivan
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Shanghai Clone Wars: Great Wall Florid Bonds Scion Xa With Toyota Yaris
One of the most eye-popping examples of car-cloning at this year's Shanghai Auto Show is the Florid hatchback from China's Great Wall Motors. What's surprising about the Florid is the fact that it actually copies the design of two vehicles,...
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Shanghai Show: Great Wall Hover H7 Concept
China's Great Wall Motors which became 'famous' around the blogosphere for its Fiat Panda and Toyota - Scion knockoffs, introduced a new compact crossover model at the Shanghai Auto Show called the Hover H7. Surprisingly -for Great Wall Motors,...
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Great Wall Motors To Exhibit 12 New Models At Shanghai Auto Show
The zerox maker of cars like the Fiat Panda lookalike, GWPeri, and the Toyota/Scion inspired (...) Florid and Coolbear, Great Wall Motors, has announced that it will unleash a total of 12 new vehicles as well as three new powerplants at the upcoming 2009...
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China’s Great Wall Motors To Build Cars In Bulgaria
Chinese automaker Great Wall Motors is planning to start building cars in Europe in a new joint venture with a Bulgarian partner near the city of Lovech. The project was announced during a meeting on Tuesday between the Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey...
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China’s Great Wall Banned From Importing Panda Clone To Europe
Following in the footsteps of BMW that managed to stop the Chinese Shuanghuan CEO SUV from being imported into Germany, Fiat has won a court order against China’s auto manufacturer Great Wall Motors (GWM) banning the latter from bringing the GWPeri...
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