Copycats

[old redneck]

Not even the Chinese owned Volvo?

[Exalta-STA]

Scion xB


Greatwall CoolBear....nice name

[euromodder]

Originally Posted by Arragonis

Chinese interior ?

The outgoing Yaris' dash :

[Arragonis]

Aygo dash - it was in my OP.

[gone-ot]

...interesting tachometer mounting; reminds me of hot rodding tachs of the 1950's-1960's.

[Arragonis]

They copied it from the BINI (aka BMW MINI) which in turn copied this idea from a lot of the original 1960s Mini models where owners would quite often add an aftermarket Smiths rev counter to their cars, especially if they were Cooper 'S' models or tuned by experts - e.g. Downton.



EDIT - I have one in my Aygo which I bought after buying the car.

[gone-ot]

...hadn't heard the word BINI in eons!

...I used a small (~2") VDO tachometer on my '72 1.6L Kent engined 1972 Pinto; and used two red LED's for lighting instead of single white incandescent bulb.

[Arragonis]

I had a proper Smiths one in my untuned 1.0 Mini circa 1988 - the rev counter could read to 10K.

The 998cc economy tuned A-series (3 main bearing crankshaft!) in that car was redlined at 6, and ran out of breath at 7.

[Exalta-STA]

Mercedes Benz and Geely Merrie 300


Honda CRV and Laibao SRV


Toyota Prado and Dadi Shuttle

[Arragonis]

Geeley is a good one, Geeley Panda





Note the tailgate hinges, brakelight and the tail lights. The Geeley has a full tailgate though, the Aygo has only a glass hatch.

Yes, I know - I only do Aygo lookalikes so far...