stuck behind one of these earlier tonight 

"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69) 07/28/2017 at 07:39 • Filed to: hour rule, Chery J3

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Chery J3, nothing remarkable about it

merely meh.

Probenja > pip bip - choose Corrour 07/28/2017 at 08:06

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In my country these are called Chery Skin, which is not a very appealing name and apparently they are styled by Pininfarina which is a thing.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Probenja 07/28/2017 at 08:12

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Pininfarina were clearly proud of it too. as there are no badges stating it on them anywhere.

Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction > pip bip - choose Corrour 07/28/2017 at 08:31

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That is some weird Chevy :)

pip bip - choose Corrour > Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction 07/28/2017 at 08:35

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BUGGER!

didn’t notice, meant to be Chery

pip bip - choose Corrour > Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction 07/28/2017 at 08:36

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fixed.

Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction > pip bip - choose Corrour 07/28/2017 at 08:38

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I figured it was a Chery :)
Seems like even Pinifarina can’t avoid taking design cues from upscale models when designing Chinese cars

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > pip bip - choose Corrour 07/28/2017 at 09:17

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I still find it sortof odd that Australia is the most ‘Western’ country with the largest amount of Chinese brands.....how do they do there anyway?

We don’t have any Chinese brands here in North America....have people taken to them at all? Is there reliability and safety improving....?

pip bip - choose Corrour > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 07/28/2017 at 09:29

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commercials do ok sales wise, nothing great. the biggest seller is Great Wall with the V200/V240, X200/X240 and SA220 plus the new Steed

see the odd LDV van around

Geely and ZX were only sold in W.A.

Chery sold a few J3 and J11, J1 hatch not sold here in Vic due to regulations.

starting to see the odd Foton twin cab ute. we had one of them traded in at work, it was rather fucked after only 100k km

never seen a JMC Vigus. so no idea about them.

quality on some is so bad it isn’t funny, earlyish Great Walls were coming from the factory with asbestos gaskets in them, no wiring looms down the left hand side.

the Geely MK have been recalled for safety reasons a couple of times

early Fotons had the wrong jacks in them.

Chinese cars are nothing special.

wonder what the Chinese Volvos and Buicks that are available in the USA are like?

safety improving? glacially maybe.

Probenja > pip bip - choose Corrour 07/28/2017 at 09:39

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Thankfully Chery has improved a lot in quality and their new stuff is quite impressive and sells pretty well in Chile.

Arrizo 5:

Tiggo 2:

Compared to this S21 that was selling just a few years ago:

Dave the car guy , still here > pip bip - choose Corrour 07/28/2017 at 09:43

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Chevy had lawsuits again Chery for the name being so similar and actual whole cars ripped off. The old Spark even could use parts from the Chery 10 yrs ago and if I recall it was more than just doors as mentioned in this article.

http://felixwong.com/2016/04/chinese-copies/

That doesn’t look like a direct copy but that looks very much like an Opel Astra or Chevy Cruze hatch.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > pip bip - choose Corrour 07/28/2017 at 17:51

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So as terrible as I figured then :P

I know the Honda Fit/Jazz we get here in Canada has a lot of them coming from Chinese plants...they seem OK enough, but I imagine Honda tries to watch quality control closely...

pip bip - choose Corrour > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 07/28/2017 at 18:48

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Most Honda cars here come from Thailand

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > pip bip - choose Corrour 07/28/2017 at 20:37

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Most of ours, historically AFAIK were from the US or Japan.