Pininfarina tapped to style 3 concepts debuting in Beijing
Pininfarina is making its
Anhui Jianghuai will have two Pininfarina designed cars, a sedan code named A108 (pictured) and a five-door hatch code named A107. They are meant to hit European markets in late 2009. Brilliance, which is BMW's Chinese partner, will be showing off the BS4 station wagon. It will head to Europe with the re-engineered BS6 sedan.
Though they won't be unveiling new cars, Pininfarina's other Chinese clients include Chery, Changfeng, and Hafei, who together have at least seven cars penned by Ferrari's favorite design house.
[Source: Auto News]
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NG 7:09PM (4/16/2008)
anyone say this looks like a late 90's cavalier ?
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Mwmorph 7:13PM (4/16/2008)
Not at all, looks like a Jetta if anything.
jgp 10:45AM (4/17/2008)
Looks like someone crashed a Cobalt into a Jetta and kept the result.
d3a 7:35PM (4/16/2008)
personally i think it looks like the current hyundai elantra
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Quattroporte 7:37PM (4/16/2008)
I'm sorry, but what does Ferrari see in them?
Oh...wait a minute. The Quattroporte was designed by Pininfarina, wasn't it?
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d3a 7:40PM (4/16/2008)
...thats not exactly saying much. Maserati's are awesome machines, but the Quattroporte is simply hideous from any angle
Quattroporte 7:44PM (4/16/2008)
I'll admit the Quattroporte is...unusual. But, the GranTurismo is gorgeous from any angle.
Ben 9:13PM (4/16/2008)
it looks like a cobalt. very similar shape.
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Pat 9:40PM (4/16/2008)
My first thoughts also
joe23521 9:23PM (4/16/2008)
Doesn't do much for me.
Most of the Geely concepts look a lot more interesting than this invisibly blah design.
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D-GOD 9:50PM (4/16/2008)
i'd say the latest gen Neon+Cobalt mixed together, its Bob Lutz dream!
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Billy C. 11:11PM (4/16/2008)
In the not-too-distant future, there will be cars designed and engineered in the US, and built in US managed factories located in China. These cars will take over the lower and middle market in the US.
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armandd 1:07AM (4/17/2008)
looks like proton persona to me..
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cc 2:24AM (4/17/2008)
No way... if you read the news, the way things are going, Chinese factories will be outsourcing their production to the US to save money building the cars their US-educated engineers design.
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Pips 8:35AM (4/17/2008)
US Focus+Cobalt
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Dazza 9:40AM (4/17/2008)
The "it looks like this, it looks like that" brigade are ridiculous. There are styling cues used in VWs, renaults and Fiats in here - which themslves have existing cues from other manufacturers. Seriously, just how many C-segment three-box sedans in the world today look utterly unique? Zero.
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moha 11:48AM (4/17/2008)
looks like Proton Persona with nose jobs to me...
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