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To be honest though, since every car manufacturer basically knocks off design cues from other car manufacturers, it is pretty hard to make a fully original car that isn't hideous. Just try drawing your own car design (a REALISTIC car, not some crazy future-mobile with wire wheels or whatever) and you'll soon realize that pretty much all the possible shapes that aren't hideous are probably already used by some other car.

Oh and upon closer inspection the headlights are actually different from pretty much every other car out there, even if they initially give you the impression of Concorde. The real question is whether Roewe will develop this style across all their models as their new design language, since if you keep making drastically different designs people will just continue to claim you're knocking off x or x or x.

By the way, the rear looks like the Lexus IS' lights to be, but again upon closer inspection they're different enough that I wouldn't say it's a knockoff. Honestly it's more unique than most cars out there, Chinese or not, since all the cars you mentioned it as knocking off have also share design cues with a lot of other cars.]]>Dec 1st 2007 9:16PM