Youxia X Electric Car Motors presented a further development of rival Tesla Motors
Chinese Model S Tesla electric car scheduled to start in Shanghai; Youxia X Borrows From Tesla Motors Cues.
The Youxia X is due in China sometime late next year, according Youxia Motors Photo Youxia Motors.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, China is home to the most eager automakers in the world, it is not uncommon for some of the dozens of China's domestic manufacturers to stand at auto shows in Shanghai and Guangzhou with some blatant rip -offs design.
Now, Tesla Motors has become the latest foreign automaker to be flattered with the introduction of a Chinese variant that borrows heavily from the electric car maker Silicon Valley Sunday in Beijing, Shanghai Youxia Motors introduced the Youxia X, that he calls China's first all-electric sports car.
The X Youxia door left Ques design similar to the model S Tesla Motors Photo Youxia left; Tesla Motors right.
A bit of Tesla in front, but definitely not too much, said the car is expected to be released late next year for a starting price of 200,000 yuan around 32,000 - or about a quarter the price of the Model S in China .
The vehicle is the brainchild of 28-year-old Huang Xiuyaun, fan of the American television series Knight Rider 1980, about a crime fighter techie played by David Hasselhoff and his sidekick KITT, an artificial intelligence 1982 Pontiac Trans Am the Youxia X has a lively front end that mimics the front KITT scanner bar illuminated It s displayed from a digital screen facing the front that can be customized with different icons No word on how the screen succeed in a frontal collision.
Inside, the Youxia X is the first car provided with a touch-screen center console like graphics Tesla OS are similar, as pictures Youxia Motors.
My dream was always that I wanted it to be as cool car Knight Rider, Huang said at Sunday's event, according to the Chinese language The company says the car is designed to compete with the Tesla Model 3, expected in 2018, and will sport a range of 265 miles per battery fully charged 85 kWh.
Although not a carbon copy of the S model, the X Youxia certainly manifest Tesla Model S design cues, including the bulbous nose, Rims and flush door handles of the Tesla Model S within harbors a large touch screen panel and rectangular LCD digital dash board with similar icons that operating system based on Linux Tesla.
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The Youxia X Y-shaped logo alludes to the brand T Tesla, part of a legal battle in 2013 between Tesla and local brand squatters Zhan Baosheng, who rushed to the patent in China and the office mark before Tesla and ripped the company s favorite Chinese name Zhan however failed to block the use of Tesla's logo and name in China, and Tesla resumed the Web address that was previously displayed Zhan supposedly planned electric car .
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The heavy borrowing from foreign automakers design cues is not relegated merely marginal automakers in China.
Last year, Jaguar Land Rover was exasperated when Changan Auto, a major 10 car manufacturers in China, in partnership with Jiangling Motors Landwind SUV to release, one of the most obvious of a foreign model knockoffs in 2008, great Wall Motors, China's largest manufacturer SUV, has been blocked from exporting its GWPeri minicar in Europe after Fiat successfully sued the stark similarity of the car in the Fiat Panda, one of the best-selling of minicars in Europe.
The Lifan 330 left bears similarities with the Mini Cooper Photo Lifan Group left; BMW right.
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