Agree, FAW hasn't even confirmed anything. This is obviously a photoshop, jesus christ just look at the background and the colour.

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I followed the link to goche.sohu.com shown in the watermark and the article talks as if it's got an exclusive look at the vehicle & describes the features shown in the photochop. But I know a chinese site that said they had "exclusive photos" of a prototype phone turned out to have found the photos on a fan forum and also another incident where they made a photochop themselves. (anyone remember the meizu m8 copyright infringement incident on engadget & gizmodo, where they traced the photo back to the source and found it was a fan photoshop?)

There's a link to a video that shows a concept SUV that looks different than this one but also looks to be a HongQi:
http://auto.sohu.com/20080414/n256293597.shtml
Screenshot:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25319997@N08/2426042209/

Link to original article:
http://auto.sohu.com/20080418/n256365767.shtml

We'll see when they actually unveil the concept at the 08 Beijing auto show.

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So what you are saying is that the magazines that cover the rip offs are ripping off the rip offs themselves???

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@spacegravity4me
Yes, that is basically exactly what I'm saying. A lot of these sites essentially make up news by releasing their own chops or taking them from fan forums. Another possibility is that they got glimpse of the concept and decided to make their own chop showcasing what they saw (this seems to be more logical). Or I can be completely wrong and these chops WERE done by HongQi, but given the evidence (or lack thereof), I kind of doubt that. But lots of Chinese websites are unreliable, and lots of them have tons of spyware/viruses too. That's just the sad truth.
And as always, we'll find out when they actually show the concept at the auto show, which is going on right now if I'm correct, starting from the 20th to the 28th.

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here is the link to the real pics at the show.
http://picture.auto.sohu.com/@picture_f1227655.html#slide

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The last-gen Infiniti FX didn't escape unscathed, as well.

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I think you're right.

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No.

More of a Hong-Chi with stress on the o part.

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are you insane?

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You can't be serious...

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the front is an obvious rip-off of the Rolls Royce, but do you really think Lincoln's grille looks good?
i know it's blasphemy to give a compliment to a chinese automaker,(especially on this site) but i think the fake Rolls royce grille looks better than that huge animal-eating grille on the real one.

If it weren't an obvious rip-off of Rolls Royce, would you really think Lincoln's grille looked better?

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ummmm, yeah, at least it flows with the rest of the car

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Don't want your Honkie getting hot around the lights.....

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No.

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