Just as we predicted at the start of the year, Volkswagen has surpassed Toyota as the world’s largest automaker. Sales for the first half of the year has been announced and VW sold a total of 5.04 million cars against Toyota’s 5.02 million, leaving General Motors firmly in third spot.
We have become used to the never-ending stream of fake Gucci handbags and Rolex watches (or was that Relox watches?) coming out of China, but a recent trend seems to be the cloning or creation of lower cost facsimile cars from our friends behind the Bamboo Curtain. Is it Convergent Marketing or is it Copying? Well, imported SUV’s are hot property in China but they have to date proven a little too expensive for the average Chinese wallets; this has left an obvious hole in the market for Chinese wannabes to produce their own version of well-known and popular international icons. Here are a few that have caught our attention recently.
This sweet superbike is how London-based graphic designer, Jans Slapins, imagines a Tesla two-wheeler would be. It’s not the first time that Slapins has teased us with stunning, albeit fictional, machines that were created by his adept Photoshop skills. Last year, he posted the BMW Urban Racer concept (below) on his website, which also left us wishing that fantasy was fact.
This sweet superbike is how London-based graphic designer, Jans Slapins, imagines a Tesla two-wheeler would be.
This sweet superbike is how London-based graphic designer, Jans Slapins, imagines a Tesla two-wheeler would be. It’s not the first time that Slapins has teased us with stunning, albeit fictional, machines that were created by his adept Photoshop skills. Last year, he posted the BMW Urban Racer concept (below) on his website, which also left us wishing that fantasy was fact.
This grand idea is still in the initial stage, but we like what we hear so far.