Great Wall Shocker: Spy shots reveal a unique-looking concept
Great Wall Hover H7 - Click above for an image gallery
As expected, Chinese automaker Great Wall is using the Shanghai Motor Show to introduce the world to its latest CUV concept, the Hover H7. For years, we've been asking Chinese automakers for unique designs. Today, we take it all back. This is one seriously odd and disjointed-looking concept vehicle.
Up front is a grille that looks like it wants to be Audi-esque, though it's not nearly as successful in execution. Above that gaping maw is some sort of chrome mustache that sits below an air intake that reminds us of a bottom-feeding fish, and that's not good. Stranger yet are the front and rear doors, which feature reverse Nike-swoosh transparent panels bisected by a strong character line that seems to fall off a cliff three-quarters into the rear doors.
Also, be sure to note the side mirrors that have such little surface area that they can't possibly serve a useful purpose. On the positive side, we don't mind the Euro Ford-lookalike alloy wheels. Check out all the gory details in our gallery below. Or, ya know... you could do yourself a favor and skip it, just this once.
[Source: Thetycho.com]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Abe 1:03PM (4/18/2009)
My eyes hurt
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reddy 2:41PM (4/18/2009)
Send it to dubai!! This is for dubai eyes which are used to all the sun glare :)
asng15 5:29PM (4/18/2009)
The SHANGHAI Auto Show is the NO.1 largest auto show this year and china become the NO.1 largest auto market this year.......... perhaps people are just not get used hear all the "NO.1 news" from china.
This is normal when a country rising at the very top speed .................quizzer all arround....
America has gone through things like this during the 1900 (copy the edu system from england= Yale Harvard )
Japan has gone through it during the 1960
now is China.........
well, People need time to "adjust ourselves to new environment".
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big J
2:57PM (4/18/2009)
And just so people don't misinterpret, I'm not defending any and every Chinese automaker, I'm defend against the bias, which is obviously there. The claims of this looking like that and that looking like this are so loose they can be applied to virtually any vehicle, but they AREN'T, and this is where my complaints stem from. If you're going to complain at least come up with some legitimate ones like how ugly the car is, not garbage claims like "That paint looks like the paint from XXX" or "the floor mats are ripped right out of XXX" or "the hood looks just like the one from XXX".
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Rivengle 6:20PM (4/18/2009)
i agree with the guy above. Really, any car can look Audi-ish. Hm...Hondas look Toyota-ish, which look subaru-ish....and so on. BMW looks like AUDI. Oh wow. really sure. Now EXPLAIN to me how the freaking front looks Audi-ish. Sigh. Plus, who knows what might change in the actual PRODUCTION model.
matt 1:03PM (4/18/2009)
probably a deathtrap
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Mike 1:04PM (4/18/2009)
If you close your eyes it looks great!
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Kareem M. Kamel 1:08PM (4/18/2009)
The car is not even worth the Autoblog post :(
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asng15 5:29PM (4/18/2009)
INDIAN TATA should build some bigger car like this at least........make it big first
Sunny Brar 1:10PM (4/18/2009)
So unique that it's ugly
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waiownsyou 1:19PM (4/18/2009)
Only thing unique about this car is that it shows the first time a car company overuses chrome.
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Steve 1:21PM (4/18/2009)
Is... the front end... throwing up another front end?
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TRIP 1:28PM (4/18/2009)
I was going to post something about how offensive this thing is, but your post says it all.
Sektor 1:46PM (4/18/2009)
Be afraid, very afraid.
Jake B 5:36PM (4/18/2009)
It's like the aliens from the movie Aliens with the retracto mount inside of the other mouth. I wonder if the grill is gonna punch a hole through my forehead.
Frank 5:52AM (4/19/2009)
Grill awful.
Headlights good.
Rearquarter window. BMW. X
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BMWFanatic 11:54PM (4/18/2009)
Hey, BMW called, they want their wheels back.
Big Diesel 1:27PM (4/18/2009)
Just... EWWWW
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wolverinejoe80 1:28PM (4/18/2009)
Aztek says take my place
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OubelhaNegra 1:36PM (4/18/2009)
You now understand why they copy everything...
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P.V. 1:36PM (4/18/2009)
That thing is throwing up in its mouth, just as I am.
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