You’ve got to give Jaguar Land Rover credit where it’s due. The UK automaker has been leading the legal battle against those Chinese automakers who shamelessly chose to steal its designs. Look at the Range Rover Evoque. Then look at the Land Wind X7. It’s shocking, really, but at least Jaguar Land Rover has made an attempt to put an end to this outright intellectual property theft.

Facelifted Landwind X7
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Pre-facelift Landwind X7
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Range Rover Evoque 
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Landwind, the Chinese automaker who gave the world the Range Rover Evoque clone, has just unveiled a facelift for its Landwind X7. It loses out much of its British design cues and new 1.5-litre turbocharged engine for its entry level model.

So, what has changed with the new design exercise? For starters, it gets a more rectangular headlamp design (full LED items) as well as restyled bumpers and grille. On the side new items include the roof rack and alloy wheel design.

The rear end is where the designers at Landwind spent most of their creative juices. It loses out on the Evoques tailgate sculpture in favour of a more face-like rear end. The chrome strip connecting the taillamps are positioned much lower compared to the car it copied from. Bumper and exhaust outlets are taken straight from the Evoque.

Facelifted Landwind X7
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Pre-facelift Landwind X7
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Range Rover Evoque 
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Landwind has introduced a 1.5-litre turbocharged engine with 160 hp mated to an updated eight-speed automatic transmission. The new turbo engine joins the existing Mitsubishi-sourced 187 hp 2.0-litre turbo.

On the pre-facelift model, the X7 comes generously equipped with 10.2-inch touchscreen infotainment system, keyless entry and start, electronic parking brake, dual-zone automatic climate control, Tyre Pressure Monitoring System, 360-degree surround camera, 6 airbags, ESC, Traction Control, ABS with EBD, Hill Ascend Control and Hill Descend Control.

The appeal of LandWind X7 is that it's locally produced and about three times cheaper than Range Rover Evoque.No suprise that X7 sells more.It is the best selling Landwind ever, and responsible for a massive 70% of the brand’s total sales.
Sure, it's probably not going to be as safe, reliable or luxurious as the Range Rover Evoque.
And at least you're not getting a crummy 1-liter engine, as the X7 is said to provide the driver with 190 HP from its 2-liter turbo engine.

Source: https://autojosh.com/chinese-clone-range-rover-evoquethe-landwind-x7gets-facelift/

Owners
Landwind is a Chinese car maker jointly owned by Jiangling Motors and Changan Auto, coincidentally both joint venture are partners of Ford, with Jiangling-Ford and Changan-Ford respectively.

Ford owned Land Rover until 2008 when they sold it on to the TATA conglomerate of India.

Three times cheaper!?
Don't bring that thing near Nigeria.
Clone or no-clone, it will sell like roasted corn.

The owners of original Range Rover Evoques will need welders to weld the decals and branding to their car bodies!

at least they try pass us.... lol

This actually looks hotter than the Range Rover version

Range Rover can never win the legal battle. Most of those international laws don't apply in China.


They should go and learn from iPhone.


GooPhone a company that does clone iPhones even sued iPhone for copying it's design because it got the renders of iPhone before it was released and quickly made a clone of it before the original iPhone got released. GooPhone then accused iPhone of stealing it's design

Shey this thing that looks like toy motor

Beware.. Military zone ..keep strolling

Hmm...


I still wonder how chinese learn to fake things with their half closed/tiny eyes

If e no be panadol, e no fit be like panadol.

Chinko na still Chinko ....you can easily spot the difference

Brb, let me go and buy that car

Chinko won ya weyrey gan

This car go sell die.

Will get one when I come to Nigeria

Ayo4251:
Shey this thing that looks like toy motor

Yes,it looks like toy car,but only from your point of view.

hmmm

Car dat you will buy and spend triple of the cost on repairs...

Is that one car?

That car doesn't look bad atol..

But if INNOSON does the Same thing we castigate them but sheepishly admire this

The truth China has successfully built it economy on piracy and the world has bought into it

Unique cloning

XXLDICK:
Range Rover can never win the legal battle. Most of those international laws don't apply in China.


They should go and learn from iPhone.


GooPhone a company that does clone iPhones even sued iPhone for copying it's design because it got the renders of iPhone before it was released and quickly made a clone of it before the original iPhone got released. GooPhone then accused iPhone of stealing it's design

This one weak me... Fake manufacturers sues too.

China and lean manufacturing sha!



I envy their ability to produce affordable and sometimes durable products. Nigeria will grow faster if we learn to align better with the Chinese. Most of these developed nations like US, UK built their economies on extortion and slavery. More reason most Nigerians today still sweat like they're gonna die just to use their products - modern day slavery.

An average Chinese man is not a slave. Clone or not, they love to make and use their thing. For example, Xiaomi is China's iPhone. WeChat is China's Facebook. Today, Xiaomi is the world largest producer of smartphone after Samsung. WeChat today is one of the largest social media platform in the world with nearly 1 billion users. Larger than Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.

If the Chinese product is what you can comfortably afford, please go for it! If we can't produce our own, at least lets align with a country that offers affordable products instead of choking ourselves with exorbitant exchange rates and tokunbo products.

XXLDICK:
Range Rover can never win the legal battle. Most of those international laws don't apply in China.


They should go and learn from iPhone.


GooPhone a company that does clone iPhones even sued iPhone for copying it's design because it got the renders of iPhone before it was released and quickly made a clone of it before the original iPhone got released. GooPhone then accused iPhone of stealing it's design

That's nothing.

The company that stole Segway's IP, subsequently stole its market and then used its profits to buy Segway.

Cant it Run to Heaven? If not it's Useless.

Nawa o

It's quite obvious somebody stole the blueprint from ranger over and modified it to avoid court charges. China never seizes. MADE IN CHINA incorporated.

Chinko and cheap duplicates.

I'm seething just seeing this.

The Chinese will one day pay the price just like Taiwan did! What you sow, you reap

XXLDICK:
Range Rover can never win the legal battle. Most of those international laws don't apply in China.


They should go and learn from iPhone.


GooPhone a company that does clone iPhones even sued iPhone for copying it's design because it got the renders of iPhone before it was released and quickly made a clone of it before the original iPhone got released. GooPhone then accused iPhone of stealing it's design

no wonder they copy original products and go free because of the countries legal background.

Either Land Rover Evoque or Landwind X7, as long as it is durable and can convey one around, what have I got to do with name?

When is it entering naija? My whole family most drive range rover Evoque