![]() Hopefully things will remain the same on the production version. Of course, we could be wrong and once the camo drops we might be facing yet another rip-off but so far, the signs are looking good. Other elements seem original, including the headlights and, especially, the interior that has a completely new face. The latest spyshots of the Brilliance V3 SUV show the car only wearing the kidney grilles up front as a common design trait but that’s about it. Now, Brilliance is showing signs of maturity and their cars are slightly moving away from BMW’s designs. Of course, explanations can be found for such a blatant breach of trademark laws and the way BMW looked the other way when the 1E was launched but even though China is their biggest market and they can’t afford to lose it, it’s still disturbing to see such examples. or at least that we can deduce to see the new spy images of the first SUV from the brand in China, quite similar in appearance to the German X1. It’s also the case of the Zinoro 1E, a car that looks exactly like the X1 but it’s being made under license by Brilliance, the Chinese partner of the Bavarians. It is clear that sharing assembly line BMW is doing much good Brilliance. Other examples can easily be found but what is even more surprising is that later on, the big European companies seemed to be ok with them copying. However, that didn’t mean that much for Shuanghuan as their main market, from the get go, was supposed to be China. ![]() Meanwhile, its front and rear lights do not resemble anything else on the European market.While the Chinese defended themselves and claimed that the cars are only slightly similar, a court in Munich decided that the Chinese SUV brand is certainly a copy of the BMW X5 and prohibited the cars from being imported in Germany. It features a front grille that reminds us of an older off-roader from Mitsubishi, but with a twist in the form of a triangle-shaped element. The latter hypothesis could explain why Brilliance bothers with testing its prototype in winter conditions in Europe, and this could be one of the reasons why they are undergoing these efforts.Ī look at the spyshots reveals a conventionally-designed SUV, with familiar shapes, but without any blatant copying of Western brands. With that in mind, along with BMW’s collaboration with this company, there is a chance that the Chinese might consider selling it in Europe. The V3 crossover shares the same platform with the Brilliance H220, 2 and It debuted on the 2015 Shanghai Auto Show and was launched in the Chinese market in May 2015 and has been the best-selling Brilliance ever since. With the help of BMW, the employees at Brilliance might have a shot at developing models that could attain decent results in European crashworthiness tests, which is an important step that must be undertaken to guarantee a chance of success on the Old Continent.Īccording to reports, the Brilliance V7 is set to become the brand’s most expensive model ever offered. The Brilliance V3 is a subcompact crossover SUV produced by Brilliance Auto under the Zhonghua brand. While Landwind was the first Chinese brand that attempted to sell vehicles in Europe and failed, Brilliance Auto got the unwanted change of being second. The vehicle gained notoriety in Western car enthusiast circles for its decidedly Shanzhai exterior design, which is heavily, if not directly, copied off BMW X1 (E84), despite Brilliance also produced genuine X1 E84 (from 2016, F49) for Chinese markets through BMW Brilliance joint venture. The first of them was crash-tested by Germany’s ADAC, which only gave it a star out of five for its performance. ![]() You might think that Brilliance is a small player, but it had the capacity to built 800,000 cars in 2010, and it has since invested in expanding its capabilities.īack in 2007, Brilliance launched a model in Europe, the BS6, which was followed by the BS4. The Asian corporation also owns a minibus company named Jinbei, which operates on its domestic market. Together with BMW, Brilliance owns half of BMW Brilliance, which is a joint venture that manufactures, distributes, and sells products of the German brand in China. ![]()
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