RX for Success... or lawsuit? China's BYD gets its Lexus tribute on

RX for Success... or lawsuit? China's BYD gets its Lexus tribute on

Filed under: SUVs, China, Crossovers/CUVs, Lexus

BYD S6 - Click above for high-res image gallery

Designing a car is such work... so why spend all that time and expense coming up with something new when the market is already awash with designs that are proven sellers? From the looks of things, China's BYD wants to sell cars, not spend time designing them. When it's luxury crossovers you're shilling, you might as well crib something that's well regarded - hence BYD's new S6, a crossover that closely apes the Lexus RX.

Looking like a mixture of RX generations, this Chinese knockoff continues its nation's tradition of styling appropriation. More intriguingly, BYD has apparently secured European copyrights to the design - a neat trick, copyrighting someone else's work. After all, we would have assumed that Lexus had already been afforded that protection.

The coup de grâce? BYD has gone and borrowed the CUV's name, too, although we're quite sure people won't mistake this for Audi's supersedan.


Gallery: BYD S6



[Source: Auto Sina via Carscoop]RX for Success... or lawsuit? China's BYD gets its Lexus tribute on originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.



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The Chinese really don't put any pride into auto manufacturing huh? They don't design the cars and they don't even build them safe like the originals. I guess the same goes to the pirated movies they copy. Sure it's the same movie, but the quality is shitty as always.

epic fail.

lol My favorite three words: suck fail life.

traditional chinese engineering right there... they took making knockoffs rims and aero parts a giant leap further

Fuckin knock-off crap