Saturday, October 14, 2006

HuoYun Electromobile : Yes, it's a Chinese Smart Fortwo clone!

Carscoop%20Smart%20Fortwo%20China%208.0Stop rubbing your eyes and start cracking up a smile on your lips, cause this is no photoshop, it's a copyshop! Once again, the Chinese automakers are doing their best to amaze us with there ingenuity ! This time the victim is the Smart Fortwo and the victimizer is Shandong Huoyun, a subsidiary of the Qilu Petrochemical Corporation.

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As Autobild reported, Smart boss Ulrich Walker was caught completely off guard when the magazine contacted him about the Chinese plagiarism. While the exterior looks of the car a complete knockoff, the interior and the mechanical parts are different -guess that makes it ok for the Chinese...

Carscoop%20Smart%20Fortwo%20China%206Anyway, instead of having a petrol motor, as its name implicates, the HuoYun Electromobile gets an electric motor that's good enough according to the Chinese to give it a max range of 120 km / 75 miles and a top speed of 50 km/h / 31 mph.


OFFICIAL SPECIFICATIONS

Passenger capacity : 2 people
Range (loaded) :
120 km
Max. speed :
55 km/h
Power :
6.5kw
Wheel base : 1.800 mm
Wheel track :
1235/1320 mm
Minimum turning radius :
4 m
Max. climbing ability (loaded) :
30%
Overall dimensions :
2.510 x 1.515 x 1.530 mm
Max. loading weight:
500 kg
No-load weight :
1.000 kg


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