How brazen can you get? At least most of the Chinese
[Source: China Car Times]
HongQi announces new photochopped Lincoln MKT crossover!
How brazen can you get? At least most of the Chinese
[Source: China Car Times]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
jake @ Apr 19th 2008 1:49PM
Are you sure this is sourced from the manufacturer? Sometimes these chinese websites source photos from fan forums or make their own chops. I've seen this happen with phone releases where Chinese websites sourced from fan forums and I've also seen where they make their own chops. Doesn't help that Chinacartimes doesn't mention where they got the photo.
agree @ Apr 19th 2008 5:57PM
Agree, FAW hasn't even confirmed anything. This is obviously a photoshop, jesus christ just look at the background and the colour.
jake @ Apr 19th 2008 9:40PM
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.
spacegravity4me @ Apr 19th 2008 10:20PM
So what you are saying is that the magazines that cover the rip offs are ripping off the rip offs themselves???
jake @ Apr 20th 2008 4:02PM
@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.
Polence1 @ Apr 20th 2008 5:07PM
here is the link to the real pics at the show.
http://picture.auto.sohu.com/@picture_f1227655.html#slide
klitorisaurus @ Apr 19th 2008 1:50PM
Looks like a RR Phantom was also harmed in the making of this photo.
Seoultrain @ Apr 19th 2008 6:03PM
The last-gen Infiniti FX didn't escape unscathed, as well.
Chi Wong @ Apr 19th 2008 7:16PM
I think you're right.
John Starnes @ Apr 19th 2008 3:17PM
"HongQi"....pronounced as "honky"? That might limit their market a tad.
Harrison @ Apr 19th 2008 7:04PM
No.
More of a Hong-Chi with stress on the o part.
k.w.a @ Apr 19th 2008 5:50PM
OMG the HongQi looks BETTER! i was about to praise Lincoln for smoothing out the rough edges on their concept 'til i found out it wasn't even a lincoln!
FoMoCo should start taking photochops into consideration
nissanfreak87 @ Apr 19th 2008 6:02PM
are you insane?
Stuka @ Apr 19th 2008 6:27PM
You can't be serious...
k.w.a @ Apr 19th 2008 6:36PM
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?
nissanfreak87 @ Apr 20th 2008 5:47AM
ummmm, yeah, at least it flows with the rest of the car
Seoultrain @ Apr 19th 2008 6:04PM
I wonder if all those vents are functional. You gotta cool that headlight fluid, I guess :)
MoonRover @ Apr 19th 2008 6:46PM
Don't want your Honkie getting hot around the lights.....
Austin @ Apr 19th 2008 6:27PM
I hate the chinese, can we just boycott the olympics!!!
Harrison @ Apr 19th 2008 7:05PM
No.