This “all the Chinese do is copy” meme needs to be put to rest. Every nation copies as first while they industrialize and learn the ropes.

I’ve seen a lot more experimentation and unique designs in Chinese cars recently than European or American cars. Followed by the Koreans.

There’s “taking inspiration from” and straight out copying. The line is admittedly blurry.

But in this case, I kind of feel it leans a bit towards the latter.

This isn’t the first instance Chinese automakers have copied designs. There have been outright shameless egregious clones of various BMWs, Porsches, etc. I don’t know what the legalities are, but those were never intended for sale outside of China IIRC.

No idea where do you find similarities between the f11 bmw and a passat except both having 4 doors and 4 wheels. They look completely different, especially the f11 with that beautiful round front and that round muscular rear line of the touring.