Duck and cover - Geely strikes back!

Bravada · 04-12-2006, 04:35 PM

Geely LG-1

Geely Automobile, one of the most rapidly developing Chinese car manufacturer introduced its more upmarket LG-1 recently.

The car, which is officially named Geely LG-1 King Kong has been developed with assistance from Korean and Italian companies. Geely claims there were over 1000 engineers from China and abroad summoned for the project.

More info and pics @ http://www.globalautoindex.com/news.plt?no=1438#

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Now nothing is said on which Korean company was involved, but LG sounds meaningful. Was that the refrigerator division? The wheelbase is longer than in the previous Daihatsu Charade-based models, but this could be just an evolution of the design.

Now the King Kong joins Beauty Leopard, Meirie and Urban Nanny in Geely's fight for world domination. In the, very unlikely, case Geely fails to bring down Toyota and GM at the same time, they could license those names to the creator of Chinese X-Men

**T-Type** · 04-12-2006, 04:39 PM

They didn't seriously call it King Kong did they?

Squachy · 04-12-2006, 04:42 PM

OMG an astra ripoff!!!

The body looks like a blend of Yaris sedan and aveo

Bravada · 04-12-2006, 04:46 PM

I am afraid they did. The Beauty Leopard, Merrie and Urban Nanny have been around for some time, so no wonder here.

AutoWeek's forum has a thread with some more pics, including the beautiful interior (notice the innovative use of vacuum cleaner's dustbag around the shifter):

http://forums.autoweek.com/thread.js...30935&tstart=0

From some angles it looks like Proton got a licence from Fiat to manufacture the old Lancia Lybra but lost the blueprints and tried to come up with something...

King Riffle · 04-13-2006, 11:11 AM

Hey, that doesn't look half bad. Will this one have a built in Kareoke machine too?

"Geely will go with you for a happy life"

tomprice · 04-13-2006, 11:28 AM

Bleurgh!

Hang on, if that's an upmarket model, what on earth do the basic models look like?

Actually, stuff that, it looks like an obese Proton Savvy (below) with a builders bum.

rmodys · 04-13-2006, 11:56 AM

Look at that beautiful interior, GM needs to put things out like this rather than the crap we're seeing in the Camaro Concept and in the new Saturn Concepts. It really beats the crap out of anything GM has, especially the Escalade or STS-V.

coaster.n3rd · 04-13-2006, 11:59 AM

That top photo really looks like a saturn.

Bravada · 04-13-2006, 12:48 PM

Here's a more basic model:

and here is a more appropriate Proton reference

FordFan · 04-13-2006, 01:35 PM

the QQ in here sells for 4000 bucks.

yeah, they're going to take over... god ****************it.

importedtuna · 04-13-2006, 01:47 PM

Haha, looks like Nissan's new G35 headlights, classic.

BigBadBflo · 04-14-2006, 09:44 AM

I like the "happy feet" floor mats

01cavalier · 04-14-2006, 11:54 AM

Wow, that thing is ugly, and the interior really looks cheap!

CRBoyd91 · 04-14-2006, 12:35 PM

Hopefully this big piece of crap isn't coming here.

ees1996 · 04-14-2006, 04:10 PM

The happy feet floor mat characters look "trojan"esque. LOL

04-12-2006, 04:35 PM	#1 (permalink)
Bravada 70 MPG Two Mode Saturn Hybrid Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Warsaw, Poland Posts: 10,871	Duck and cover - Geely strikes back! Geely LG-1 Geely Automobile, one of the most rapidly developing Chinese car manufacturer introduced its more upmarket LG-1 recently. The car, which is officially named Geely LG-1 King Kong has been developed with assistance from Korean and Italian companies. Geely claims there were over 1000 engineers from China and abroad summoned for the project. More info and pics @ http://www.globalautoindex.com/news.plt?no=1438# **** Now nothing is said on which Korean company was involved, but LG sounds meaningful. Was that the refrigerator division? The wheelbase is longer than in the previous Daihatsu Charade-based models, but this could be just an evolution of the design. Now the King Kong joins Beauty Leopard, Meirie and Urban Nanny in Geely's fight for world domination. In the, very unlikely, case Geely fails to bring down Toyota and GM at the same time, they could license those names to the creator of Chinese X-Men __________________ Debunking the myth - GM has too many brands** Only @ GMI!

04-12-2006, 04:39 PM	#2 (permalink)
T-Type GMI Staff Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Chicago, IL. Posts: 3,255	Re: Duck and cover - Geely strikes back! They didn't seriously call it King Kong did they?

04-12-2006, 04:42 PM	#3 (permalink)
Squachy 4.4 Liter Supercharged Northstar Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,343	Re: Duck and cover - Geely strikes back! OMG an astra ripoff!!! The body looks like a blend of Yaris sedan and aveo __________________ How much Koolaid have you drunk today? IS it enough for the win? Or should we wait till next year?

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Bravada 70 MPG Two Mode Saturn Hybrid Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Warsaw, Poland Posts: 10,871	Re: Duck and cover - Geely strikes back! I am afraid they did. The Beauty Leopard, Merrie and Urban Nanny have been around for some time, so no wonder here. AutoWeek's forum has a thread with some more pics, including the beautiful interior (notice the innovative use of vacuum cleaner's dustbag around the shifter): http://forums.autoweek.com/thread.js...30935&tstart=0 From some angles it looks like Proton got a licence from Fiat to manufacture the old Lancia Lybra but lost the blueprints and tried to come up with something... __________________ Debunking the myth - GM has too many brands Only @ GMI!

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