Fake AMG G63 and the other worst Chinese copycat cars!

the Chinese are famous for making copycat versions of European cars and there's a perfect example of one right here this is their Beijing Auto groups BJ 80 and he looks rather like a Mercedes g-class doesn't it I mean it's almost a carbon copy in fact how very cheeky of them the front of the car is very G classy the light design is like the the current G car shows the rugged bumper the way you've got those wheel arches that are pronounced the flap on it the bluff windscreen you don't have the indicators on the top of the wings though like the real G class and the grill is a little bit more like that on a Jeep the side profile though is completely G classes and there even they exposed to inches on the doors the feeling the door handles and listen to this the noise the doors make when you open and shut them so and then it's just like the real thing it's very familiar here at the back as well especially with the rear mounted spare wheel the fact it's got a flat back end and the tailgate opens outwards like that all very G cuts even underneath the skin so this car has a ladder frame chassis at the front of the suspension is independent like on the latest G cus whereas at the back it's got a rigid axle now I've just noticed something really odd so the exhaust surrounds actually have a tow hitch coming out of them so look they wouldn't pass the car while stick of truth' those should probably be the car well ski pole of truth yeah anyway the actual exhaust is here they're very bizarre the copying continues here on the inside for instance the two-tone seats are very much like in the normal G class so are the door designs the square effect of the trim and this handle here nice and rugged and chunky and then the handle to help you get in here as well however the dash design itself is more like the previous generation G class because even got the single screen you've got two separate ones and the buttons down here like in the old G class as well well I can't see are the three diff locks though though this card does have a low range mode another thing that's missing is the classic grab handle on the dash but the way the - is designed there it's quite shallow and quite steep it's very much like the g-class thing is though this is a lot less expensive so this is the range-topping version it's got a three liter v6 turbo it's got 270 horsepower four-wheel drive of course and it will cost forty thousand pounds in China whereas the entry-level G Class that's going to set you back around two hundred thousand pounds of your Chinese what's fun is that this car is rather boldly on display pretty much right next door to the Mercedes stand at the Shanghai Auto Show it's almost like they're rubbing Mercedes nose in it anybody wondering why the heck doesn't Mercedes come over here with their lawyers and get them to take this thing away and stop building these copycat cars well I found out that Mercedes actually has a partnership deal with Beijing Auto corporation to build cars here in China so they're probably willing to overlook this kind of plagiarism the interests of business relations here's another version of the bja t only in a slightly different paint scheme it's quite cool actually wait a minute it's got the indicators on the wings yeah this is the real G class in fact it's the g63 and if you want one of these in China it's gonna cost around 300 thousand pounds so no wonder the copycat exists the g63 isn't the only performance SUV Beijing Auto has copied they also do a Lamborghini Eris ripoff called the one Hsu another direct Chinese copycat is as ot sr9 which blatantly looks like a Porsche Macan then there's the land wind x7 which is a cut-and-paste previous generation Ranger provoke in fact the company just lost a lawsuit in China against Land Rover over this car now what it appears the Chinese are doing is rather than doing blatant outright copies which can get them into trouble they're just borrowing certain design elements from other cars and then amalgamating them all onto one vehicle as I'll show you now on this stand here with BYD which stands for build your dreams so this is the tang and it's a hybrid SUV it's actually got a 2-liter turbo to let your motors and could do nought to 60 in just four point five seconds but this through three quarters is rather like another hybrid SUV one that's not quite so quick can you guess what it is yeah Alexis or Rex you see it it's got obvious really I don't know about you but I'm picking up quite a lot of Audi q5 vibes from this song the crease down the side weight kind of curves over the wheels it's a little bit howdy q5 isn't it then the lights are even more q5 and when you combine that with the Audi like grille it's quite clear to say the whole car actually from other angles doesn't look quite so q5 ish but from this from three quarters yeah it really really does this car is called the hand now it's an electric supercar and it has four electric motor so one for each wheel and it can do not 60 in 2.9 seconds and you might be thinking there doesn't appear to be much plagiarism going on here but you'd be so so wrong for instance take a look at this rear end the wraparound light bar is very very Porsche 911 isn't it even the way they've written build your dreams is sort of in the Porsche font then if you look at this back screen it reminds of the engine covers you get on Lamborghinis and finally the name of the concept even though the production car will be called the hand this concert version is called the e Cee'd GT Kia Cee'd GT they're even copying the name finally from this angle the shape of the lights and the weather when he worked kind of swoops over the wheel it sort of reminds me of the Honda NSX so this is the song pro and it's a smallish SUV but this element here just like this side blade you get on an Audi q2 especially the way it's contrasting with the bright blue paint also this strong crease here is very ldq two-ish meanwhile the lights at the back have vertical elements in them a bit like the rear lights on the a6 for me this is the most blatant bit of copying on the BYD stone because it really does just look like a Toyota AYGO tygo Durkin yeah it's a little bit maybe a little bit I'll show you the worst bit on it though there's a one-piece glass tailgate it's just totally totally shameless this may well look like a Jeep Wrangler but it is in fact a Beijing Auto Group BJ 40 this cars made by jancker and they've copied Range Rover in the way that they had their name boldly across the front even the fonts the same have the model name of this car copies an Audi look it's it's called the q7 they're bizarrely this car is in a seven-seater is just a five-seater Beijing Auto Group doesn't just copy current car designs it also seems to copy older ones as well this looks like an old Volvo s60 however the tech on this car is very modern so it's called the EU 300 and it's an electric car you can actually raise it up drop the battery out of it and swap it for an e back sure that's fully charged so you can carry on with your journey I don't know what's happening to me I think I've seen too many copycats I'm starting to see copying even when there's probably not any copying actually going on probably not any copying and actually going on [Music] well actually do you know what I'm not seeing things because this is the new neo et preview to concept car but it really does look rather like an Audi a7 it looks cool though and really to be fair well this has been a fun video to do I look at the copycats I think that in future we're not going to see much copying from the Chinese to be like the Japanese they used to copy they don't anymore they have their own unique designs in fact I think we're going to see the Chinese leading the way they're certainly leading the way when it comes to electric cars which this car is yeah in the future we'll probably going to be copying the Chinese if you enjoyed the video please give it a 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Keywords: carwow, mat watson, 4k review, shanghai auto show, shanghai auto show 2019, mercedes, mercedes-amg, mercedes-amg g63, g63, g-wagon, fake g-wagon, fake cars, copycat cars, chinese cars, chinese replica cars, replica cars

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Length: 8min 43sec (523 seconds)

Published: Sun May 05 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/verdegrrl]

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[u/NicholaiGinovaef]

Kinda curious to see how well these cars fare given they`re a lot cheaper than their original counterparts.

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The BJ 80 lol.

[u/GiddeeeUp]

Wait what, the Chinese are copying other companies intellectual property....well I never saw that one coming! lol

[u/Jesus_will_return]

BJ80 looks pretty nice tbh. 3L tdi as well, not some 1L gas with 60bhp.

[u/Thunder_Wasp]

Chris Harris used to have a video where he's at a car show and noted how as soon as a new Volkswagen model became available to the press, the Chinese "reporters" got out tape measures and started measuring the diameter of the steering wheel and taking photos under the dashboard, under the car, etc. For some reason he took it down.

[u/redmusclewolf]

The brand BAIC is making all these knock offs, they are now in Mexico trying to pedal their crap, I understand they bought some technology from Mercedes and Daimler through joined ventures in the past.

They were also trying to sell FAW an even cheaper and more unreliable car, they lasted 2 years selling these and then closed operations in Mexico.

Owning these chinese vehicules is not popular at least in Mexico City.

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[u/Skai1515]

China Don't care.