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Old May 3, 2005 | 01:56 PM
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Okay I stumbled upon this photograph while doing a Google search. It looks like something made by the Chinese manufacturer Chery but it appears to have a reversed,retarded Lexus logo on it. Can anyone shed some light on this vehicle?? It's not a bad looking vehicle but It's no Lexus either.

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Old May 3, 2005 | 01:58 PM
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The Chinese did it in response to the Japanese' attempt to rewright school history books
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Old May 3, 2005 | 02:01 PM
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Can't Lexus do anything about this?
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Old May 3, 2005 | 02:02 PM
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Can't Lexus do anything about this?
They need to buy this design. it looks really good
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Old May 3, 2005 | 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by robloc93
Okay I stumbled upon this photograph while doing a google search. It looks like something made by the Chinese manufacturer Chery but it appears to have a reversed,retarded Lexus logo on it. Can anyone shed some light on this vehicle?? It's not a bad looking vehicle but It's no Lexus either.
It looks very Lexus/Toyota like.
Stretched parallelagram lights.
L-Finesse bottom lip area.
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Old May 3, 2005 | 02:06 PM
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I agree it's a nice looking vehicle,very fresh design. But why would it have that logo on it?? It kinda reminds me of the Nissan Murano up front and a hint of Quest by the A and C-pillar.

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Old May 3, 2005 | 02:10 PM
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haha could be the next ES, see the headlights go up into the hood like the current one, but anyways, i like the red color
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Old May 3, 2005 | 02:12 PM
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that chinese automaker also has copies of other company's cars... Honda's CRV (I think the Chinese one is SRV) and a few others... it's funny

I think Honda is trying to fight them, though.

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Here are some links =D

http://economy.autoblog.com/entry/1234000503040395
http://paultan.org/archives/2004/12/05/china-pirates/

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Old May 3, 2005 | 02:30 PM
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Car looks quite attractive, but the logo is
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Old May 3, 2005 | 02:33 PM
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maybe they just posted the pic backwards
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Old May 3, 2005 | 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by juniorsdad
maybe they just posted the pic backwards
no.. that's the correct way... lol imitating it enough w/o doing it completely lol

look at their nissan frontier imitation... the nissan 'hamburger' is still there lol
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Old May 3, 2005 | 03:56 PM
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OK, now we can all say "HOLY RIP OFF BATMAN"
Talk about out-right copy-cat

There's no way that those cars are coming over here?
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Old May 3, 2005 | 03:58 PM
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How about this?
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Old May 3, 2005 | 04:14 PM
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i...i'd...er.....i'd hit it... ...i think
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Old May 3, 2005 | 04:21 PM
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i heard about this on the news the other day. i just heard that they put lexus logo L upside down or flip the other way or something like that

but DAMN! i never thought that this would look SO GOOOOOOD!

big props for this rip off lexus. i'd hit it
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