It's actually hard to believe that these things really exist, but they do.
Although there's a nice stream of information coming from the Shanghai Motor Show about real cars making their big time debut, there's also one of our favorite bits from this particular show. That would be the clone cars produced by Chinese automakers.
Rather than churn out an original product, you'll note that these car companies have zero problem ripping off some of the globe's most popular models. In some cases they're a bit discrete, others, not so much.
To see just what we're on about, check out the video clip below...
As China’s car market booms, we look at the shameless lookalikes Chinese car makers are selling - and see if they are legal
The Chinese car industry is a very big deal. In 2013, China produced a whopping 18.7 million cars, which equates to 22.7 per cent of global car production for that year. Many of those models were from brands familiar to western car buyers, some were from companies we’ve never heard but it's a third group we're interested in here. These are cars we've never heard of that still seem to look strangely familiar, these are the Chinese copycat cars.