Chinese Car Knock Offs

As China is rapidly becoming more and more modern and its people are becoming richer, of course its people want cars in which to travel around in. Some European car companies tried to cash in on this by producing and selling its cars in China to Chinese buyers but as China is very good at making near exact replicas of well known brands for every product , they of course tried to make copies of these European cars.

I try and give every product a chance before I use them but these cars are truly shameful and horrible knockoffs.

The first car that ill show you is a BYD coupe.... I wonder what car it reminds you of?

This car springs to mind... A Mercedes-Benz CLK.

For these two cars I tried to find a similar colour just to show how alike they are. Now a normal CLK costs around €80,000 but the BYD only costs €20,000! 20,000! I know that's a massive difference but really? Would you actually buy that car knowing that everyone that sees it knows its not the real deal. In China its different as no one would really know the prices of imported cars but even people who don't know cars very well know what a Merc is and can tell that's its expensive. If you looked at this would you think its expensive? €20,000 is a massive investment and if you think about it an Audi A4 thats one or two years old could be bought for the same price and would have much better resale values and a better image

Some other cars are also copies such as the Chery QQ, a copy of the Daewoo Matiz, the Shuanghuan Noble, a Smart Fortwo in disguise and a Geely Ge, a Rolls Royce with a square body.

Mini Countryman In Every Single Music Video..

When I created this blog I said to myself that ill try to keep the number of articles that i complain in to an even 50/50.
So far this has worked as in this blog I will be complaining... about the god damn Mini Countryman.

This is the car in question and no doubt by now you have seen it in a lot of new music videos...

This is an example of one of them in the music video for the Gym Class Heroes song 'Stereo Love'

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And guess what? It pops up again in the song 'Dedication to my Ex' by Lloyd..

And at the the start of that song, guess whats lurking in the background... You guessed right a Countryman.

Im not even going to put in a picture of that ghastly orange countryman in Taio Cruz's 'Hangover' because the colour is so bright it blinds, so the only reason I can think they had that colour in the video was because he felt something needed to match all the girls disgusting fake tan.

Now I know the car itself isnt that bad, as it could have been something much worse such as the dreaded Skoda Fabia, but still Volkswagen calm down. Seriously. No one likes something to be shoved in their faces every few seconds. How would ye like it if I redirected all your internet searches to my blog? Thats right. Ye wouldnt.

Identifying Titanic Victims Today

I saw a list of still unidentified bodies from the RMS Titanic recently and I was surprised that so many bodies with a lot of information still remain unidentified. Some examples of them are posted next

NO. 28. - MALE. - ESTIMATED AGE, 30. DARK - HAIR & COMPLEXION.

CLOTHING - Black coat; grey trousers; check shirt; black boots.

EFFECTS - Nothing found but table ticket and address. "Shakin Bros., 155 Broad St., Ottawa.

PROBABLY THIRD CLASS. ITALIAN.

NO. 36. - MALE. - ESTIMATED AGE, 35. - HAIR, DARK.

CLOTHING - Steward's uniform.

TATTOO MARKS - Left arm, all over; right forearm, clasped hands and heart, Japanese fans on breast.

EFFECTS - Gold ring on right little finger, engraved "Madge"; gold watch and chain; seal; silver match box; keys; wine cards; etc.; gold and brilliant brooch; 6 pence.

CREW; 1st CLASS STEWARD. No. 76

NO. 44. - MALE. - ESTIMATED AGE, 21. - HAIR, LIGHT.

CLOTHING - Stewards coat with blue pants' white shirt, marked " F. W. I."

EFFECTS - Only things found were keys marked "C deck linen locker."

STEWARD.

NO. 78. - MALE. - ESTIMATED AGE, 40. - HAIR DARK; MOUSTACHE LIGHT.

CLOTHING - Dungaree coat and trousers; flannel singlet; no boots or socks.

TATTOO - On left arm; 'E. G.' anchor, clasped hands and heart; sailor; right arm; anchor and woman.

NO EFFECTS.

FIREMAN, PROBABLY ON WATCH.

These ones look very easy to identify and by quick inspection of the rest of the bodies, a lot of them seem to have tatoos on their arms, would a relative not have come forward to say that the person they lost had a tattoo? I know for example that at this stage, especially the ones buried at sea, it would be nearly impossible to identify bodies from descriptions such as these:

NO. 48. - MALE. - ESTIMATED AGE, 35. - HAIR AND MOUSTACHE, LIGHT.

CLOTHING - Steward's coat, vest and trousers; flannel shirt.

NO EFFECTS. MARKS, OR PAPERS FOUND.

STEWARD.

I was under the impression that there are plenty of Titanic Researchers, but after 100 years how much more can they investigate before coming back to these bodies?