Yeah, but codeveloped with SAIC and intended for China. The Envista, Trax, Encore GX, etc. etc. are just runoff from the Chinese market. Not to mention they sell the fully Chinese Captiva (a rebadged Baojun 530) and Groove (Baojun 510) in Mexico. 

Which is ironic as the Rexton you pictured is an Italdesign Giugiaro product (and used Mercedes OM diesels). Begs the question of who was copying who? Though to be fair, Italdesign was getting fairly lazy by the mid 2000s. 

wrong one

GM’s US market share in 1962 was 50.7%. In 2016, it was 17%. And the biggest irony is that GM is currently the one selling us Chinese cars.

I wouldn’t either, and I suppose I’m naturally boycotting by nature of not purchasing new cars. My only point is that perpetuating the idea that the Chinese OEMs are irrelevant and can only do IP theft and mimicry will come back to bite us when they flood the market with cheap EVs that the average non-enthusiast will…

I’m not driving that across the country. *shivers in 75 mph speed limit*

I don’t get it. You think all of them are just on Google all day stealing patents? Is that how the Nio EP9 got built? And I agree, the upper middle class in China are probably doing pretty well, but living under a stifling authoritarian government doesn’t automatically mean all the work they do is suddenly null and…

I mean, it was the same designer (Brian Nesbitt) who did both, so it’d be like a chef changing restaurants and saying that ‘huh, the food tastes the same’. 

Now this is a funny one. Never in a million years would I have noticed that on my own. 

Yep. Just another clear indicator of how generic BMW styling has become. The preceding 6er was still much more ‘BMW’.

Its reliability sure was! 

I feel conflicted because of course a lot of Chinese people are not deserving of being in the middle of this

To be fair, it’s a very aerodynamic shape. The gen1 Volt, too. It’s weird how quickly they abandoned it while the Prius keeps on. 

This one always stuck out to me: the new Sorento and the Koleos II.

Yeah, maybe from the front DRL signature alone, but anywhere else I’m not seeing it.

Volvo will have rear windows.

The Alphard and outgoing LM were pretty much a nose job of each other. I wonder if there’s a new Alphard soon or if this LM is just a deep facelift.

Which Volvos have had for decades now. Engine on = headlights on.

Good point; seems almost certain considering we still have the old-ass gen2 Edge on sale here.