Its not a Landcruiser

[Shayne]

 

[StarCruiser]

Errm, what is it then Shayne?

 

[Shayne]

Sorry Rich i'm still scouring the web looking for a bumper i like which is how i chanced upon the Chinese copy pictured above , its a Fuqi 6500 Land King a quick google at the time suggests there's also copies of the 90 and 120 series .

 

[Graham]

Looks not too shabby.

 

[clivehorridge]

I don't think it got very good reviews...

This looks like a translated excerpt from the a Chinese Auto Review.

"Compare the driving characteristics Fuqi with habits "vosmidesyatki" - at least not correctly. In "Chinese" apparent mass of punctures. For example,

vague steering does not give confidence in the fact that you are completely in control of the car at medium and high speeds.

In the city maneuvers are complicated by the low sensitivity (wheel at transpositions need to rotate through large angles).

Almost complete absence of the stabilizing moment: at the exit of the sharp turn the front wheels do not seek their own return to "zero" position, forcing the driver hard to turn the wheel and to constantly monitor the position of the wheels.

Also, the Chinese heavy steering wheel, pedals tight, pretty stiff suspension that vytryasyvaet whole soul.

Mechanical five-speed requires experienced hands switching mechanism is different definition of work, and the course of the lever is so great that the central second transmission lever hits the plastic frame of the tunnel. "

None of the parts are interchangeable with Toyota, so you are restricted to the Chinese parts stocks and supply chain, which is unreliable.

 

[StarCruiser]

Looks not too shabby.

+1 on that but by the reviews it looks like that's where any similarity ends. I would have thought Toyota will come down on them like a ton of bricks, probably literally in that they will most probably have them crushed.

Like the Loncin copies of Honda engines, the quality isn't quite there.

 

[clivehorridge]

I was under the impression that Toyota must have sold the "rights" to the Chinese, because such a "similar" vehicle would otherwise surely breach some copyright or intellectual ownership rights...

 

[Lund]

It's got an intercooler!

 

[Shayne]

As i understand it you cannot copyright a shape and a different engine gearbox and name avoids accusations of imitation/fake though i have no idea when or where i may have read about it

For me it would be easy to jump on the bandwagon with it not a Toyota , but i am reminded of an old girlfriend who had a copy Honda motorbike . We hadn't long met when I caught her one morning pouring engine oil into the fuel tank dad says its a 4-stroke and i have to put oil in it she says she had owned the bike almost a year and the oil reservoir was bone dry yet in the 3 years she owned it i don't recall being asked to repair anything on it at all .

Review says harsh ride , poor steering and unstable at high speed I wonder if a 4 inch lift would effect things in the positive or negative .

 

[StarCruiser]

Copyright exists on creation Shayne. You can also bet that Toyota will have registered design rights.

 

[Shayne]

Yes but it's not permanent , as i said it was a long time ago i read it , i vaguely remember something about preventing the advancement of ideas , i don't know i'm not trying to be factual its just a tidbit dragged up from the depths .

 

[StarCruiser]

I think Cliff Richard got it extended from 50yrs to 70.

 

[clivehorridge]

I think Cliff Richard got it extended from 50yrs to 70.

I would imagine that Toyota sold the tooling, at least for body and chassis. That's how most models make the cross-over from the original manufacturer to the "less desirable" at the end of their "useful" life, if I may put it like that. It's a damn shame that vehicle production has become so "fashionable" because there was a time that when someone had developed the best, there was no need for change.

 

[StarCruiser]

Yes, I'm not certain on that one but I believe he tried to at least.

 

[GuyB]

Unlikely they would have bought anything from Toyota - it's just an aesthetic rip off. Been going on for years, no one can enforce patent or copy rights in China so they do what they like

Didn't you see this one? Even more brazen because it's a current model...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...manufacturer-launches-brazen-copy-roader.html

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[StarCruiser]

They probably have sold the body tooling. Shame they didn't sell it to Dacia as a Grand Duster. The new Dusters are all over the place in Austria, some families with two or even three so they must be good for what they are.

 

[StarCruiser]

Yes, saw that one Guy, and was thinking of it reading this thread.

 

[Crispin]

And if it's Chinese copy and manufacture, the safety rating is nonexistent too...

 

[wobbly]

There is no copyright law in China - its part of the communist ethos that as all things need to be for the good of everyone then no-one should be able to prevent this by patenting stuff.

The good news is that they will be building a nuclear reactor in the UK soon

 

[froggy Steve]

and probably HS 2 or something!