Some marketing genius will create an amusing fad on owning absurd knockoffs, own that niche and make an absolute killing.

Should I even bother posting how Geely GE is a copying the Rolls Royce now?

China is getting a very serious reputation for ripoffs in too many different areas, from media priacy to branded manufacturing to espionage. If I were Chinese, I’d be a bit touchy about that, or any negative thing ascribed to me by being Chinese, so I can understand that (if that’s what this is). But to make a purely punitive accusation that itself has racial undertones is a bit silly, and counterproductive, and offensive.

I’ve been debating if I should even reply to such allegations, but I see that you keep going on and on. So, here it is:

The article was far from being racist, the idea behind it was the humor associated with it, even if the car has been modified by “a white person”, as you call it, I would have still posted.

Now, the fact that the X5 was copied by a chinese company….it’s hard to deny that and it has been reported by many auto blogs.

As a last point, you accusing us of copying everything from other blogs is just laughable, we cover the most BMW news out there, with most articles being information only posted by us. Also, read our test drives, reviews, car tips and tons of articles you can’t find anywhere. But sure, one blog cannot have the “ultimate” information and sometimes we need to report what we learned from other car sites. If we wouldn’t do that, it would mean we’re not doing our job right to to keep our readers informed. As you see, we link to everyone, even though that means driving traffic away from us. Why do we do that? Because we care about our readers and we want them to get the latest and BEST information, regardless of the origin of the news.

Sorry you feel this way and bring race into this, but you’re wrong for doing so.

… and if Horatiu was trying to “pawn off” these news articles as his own, why does he always cite the source within the article, wake-up dude, most ‘exclusives’ are only ‘discovered’ by one individual/organisation at at time, then merely syndicated throughout the media. Either way I’ll think you’ll find most BMWblog readers couldn’t care where the info first cropped up, it’s more about having all the BMW related news in one simple place, for which we should be thankful.

But of course you make a post about Chinese here because you are probably white and clearly a racist with the undertones in your writing that the chinese are only able to copy.

How about this, every article that I’m reading on this blog seem to be copies from articles on other car blogs. So how can you sit there behind your computer and accuse Chinese people like this when all you do is copy everything that you post here from real sources and pawn it off as if you discovered some news.

The 325i (which is made by Brilliance in China) cost ~450 000 RMB which amounts to about ~ 65 000 USD (which is X6 50i or M3 price).

The imported 335i (made in Germany) is ~ 613 000 RMB which is almost 90 000 USD (which means an M5 :O).

The 750Li (made in Germany) is 2 200 000 RMB making it ~ 321 730 USD (entering RR territory !).