A Good Joke

I love a good joke and love a great joke even more. Irony? Sure, that will also work. All of which brings me to an article I read in yesterday's paper (remember them?) about a Chinese company protesting about a US company's patent infringement. Get that? The Chinese complaining about patent infringement. The great knock off kings complaining. Now, that's a great joke. And tons of irony.

The auto companies have been complaining about the Chinese designs for a few years. Land Rover even took Land Wind to court over their blatant knock off of the very popular Land Rover Evoque. How similar you ask? A picture is worth.......well you know.........

A gold star to those of you who can pick out the real deal over the knock off. Not that easy, eh? And who wants a gold star anyway?

There are many examples, but I'll show you a few of my favorites..........

Here's a classic from Geely, the Xing Yue..........

Look familiar? Maybe like a BMW X6?

How about this very popular Ford sedan, the Fusion.........

Well, popular until the suv steamroller met up with it. Still someone in the Forbidden Kingdom liked it enough to come up with something rather similar, the Geely Bo Rui........

And now a Chinese company has the gall to complain about patent infringement? Guess they have a better sense of humour than I thought. The strange part is, that many of the new designs coming out of China are very distinctive in a good way. Beautiful is a good description of a few. So why carbon copy a vehicle from somewhere else in the world? Especially when you might want to sell your product in the other's home market. It happened in Europe with a BMW knock off and also the Land Wind. Crazy times.

See something different in the look of today's blog? So do I. The format has been changed by Blogspot, so it will take me a few blogs to find my way. Patience, please.

Until next time.......