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Video: Fly Bo - a 150 mile-range, Smart look-a-like EV - on sale in Michigan (just don't use it in winter)

Dec 16th 2007 12:31PM - 4 Comments

The video above is a local news report about Fly Bo, a Chinese all-electric car, available for sale in Michigan. The speedometer on the car goes to 40 MPH and in the video Dave Latarte, owner of Great Lakes Auto Sales, which sells the Fly Bo, says ...

Chinese electric Smart Clone coming to the US market?

Mar 23rd 2007 2:28PM - 4 Comments

It's being reported that a Chinese company is planning to bring a line of battery powered electric vehicles to the US market. Interestingly, the top model in the range bears a striking resemblance to a first generation Smart ForTwo. The new venture ...

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Chinese may finally get their chance to buy real Smart ForTwos

Nov 1st 2007 9:35AM - 0 Comments

Over the past couple of years, several clones of the Smart ForTwo have come from Chinese car factories. Unfortunately none of these companies have had any affiliation with Smart's parent company, Daimler. Daimler AG COO Rainer Schmueckle revealed in ...

Good idea? Smart-clone importers violate court injunction at Bologna Auto Show

Dec 11th 2007 5:11PM - 7 Comments

Ready for some more on the 1.1-liter Shuanghuan Bubble, the car also known as the Shuanghuan Noble (but everyone outside of China knows it as the Smart car clone)? Automotive News Europe's Luca Ciferri went to see the Bubble at the Bologna auto show ...

Mercedes may sue to stop Euro sales of Chinese Smart clone

Aug 21st 2007 7:16PM - 8 Comments

Last fall a battery-powered clone of the first generation Smart ForTwo turned up in China before it was quickly stomped down. Another one is now expected to be displayed at next month's Frankfurt Motor Show and China Automobile Deutschland wants to ...

Electric Smart coming from China without DCX?

Oct 13th 2006 3:37PM - 1 Comment

Having conquered the $20 Rolex watch market, in recent years Chinese manufacturers have taken to cloning cars from other companies. The Chery QQ was one of the most brazen copies so far, but there now appears to be an closer copy of another car. ...

There will be no stopping the Chinese-built Smart clone

Aug 31st 2007 1:15PM - 10 Comments

Automotive News Europe (subs req'd) is reporting that there is very little that will stop the upcoming sales of a Smart 'clone' in Europe. Even though Martin Motors, the European importer of the Noble, a Chinese-built car, has been threatened with ...

Auto clone wars heating up in Europe

Oct 15th 2007 2:28PM - 0 Comments

We've been following the story of the Smart clone (a Chinese-import into Europe) for a while now (it will be built, no, it won't), but a series of articles today by Automotive News' Luca Ciferri puts the Chinese clone attack into a broader ...

Mercedes may pop smart fortwo clone lawsuit against the Bubble

Jan 6th 2009 8:09AM - 2 Comments

Small Chinese automakers have developed the nasty habit of cloning the design and styling of successful European automobiles and placing that bodywork atop vastly inferior hardware. Although it doesn't seem right, there may be little that automakers ...

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