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This Land Rover 21700 Lookalike to go on sale in China.
Fake It Til You Make It Meet the Landwind X7 SUV.
A sport utility vehicle that looks just like the Land Rover Evoque will be sold in China this week to a third of its sticker price.
More than 5,500 people have deposits for Landwind X7 that will be available in dealerships Thursday at a starting price of 135,000 yuan 21700 The Evoque, which is the best selling model of Jaguar Land Rover worldwide , retails 398,000 yuan both models have similar broad wings, panel recessed doors and a pitched roof.
Jaguar Land Rover chief executive Ralf Speth railed at what he called the rise of the Chinese copy and paste jobs earlier this year at the Shanghai Motor Show, where the Landwind X7 was also exposed the automaker said the last year it was investigating whether Landwind design elements copied from the Evoque.
Rover Evoque sports utility vehicle Range is displayed at Auto Shanghai 2015 Photographer Tomohiro Ohsumi Bloomberg.
Customers say that the car is good-looking, like the Evoque, Zhu Jianfeng, director of sales in Ninghai Landwind specialty store, a concession that the X7 stocks, said by phone The price is too attractive.
The problem is that cheap look-alike, it will be harder for Jaguar Land Rover to command a premium for his model, especially as automakers step up the update and offer cheaper alternatives to support sales on a softening market the British premium carmaker, owned by Tata Motors Ltd. of India has reduced its prices and sales targets in China as deliveries fell 27 percent there this year to June.
Asked about the X7, Jaguar Land Rover said it must protect its intellectual property very seriously, refusing to go into details Jiangling Landwind Motors Co. holds, referred questions about the X7 to his unit calls to the main line hotline service Landwind customers remained unanswered.
Some say the Landwind X7 may even be to help the Evoque sales.
In a way, it helps to promote the Land Rover Evoque said John Zeng, director of management based in Shanghai Automotive in CML, an industry researcher There are more reports in the media and consumers understand that the X7 is an imitator.
The X7 will be sold one day before Tata Motors is expected to report quarterly results Net income will probably drop by 40 percent during the period April to June, according to the average of analysts' estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
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