bwayout

Does anyone else know or heard anything about this?

http://www.carspyshots.net/zerothread?id=21571






From my viewpoint it's not a Kabura ... but it's just slightly better looking than the current Pontiac g6 coupe ...

mike1324a

Looks like the bastard child of a g35 and a pontiac g6.

sgrenesis

Why does it seem like it was photochopped....hehehe

Anyway just think that the side looks too much like a integra and the frontgrille of a 323

s13lover

I haven't heard anything, but I like it. It does look a lot like a mix of many entry level sporty coupes (tC, Tiburon, G6, Accord) with a little G35 roofline and Solara headlights. However, I like the overall design of this car better. I would like to see the interior and know what's under the hood.

rx8frank

Looks good !!

MyRXdrug

I was just going to say tC, mazda 3 front, with RSX lines. Looks a little more aggressive than the tC and RSX

rglbegl

Ya, if it is the new Chinese car, they are gonna be cheap. Super cheap for what they are. I know I am not going to be the first to get one.(reliability is not known yet) But it is slated to hit the U.S. market within 3 years. Of course, I work for toyota, and this is just what I hear from my execs. Suppose to be around $12k with a little 4 banger that gets 30+mpg.

Edit - after looking at that picture, that one will be more $$$. The plain jane model looks pretty boring, kinda like a civic. That one looks like it has a few extra goodies on it.

Phantom Menace

No, no. It's the love child of a 2 door Accord and a Scion TC...

CarAndDriver

I was thinking Solara, Accord, G35 couple, TC....a hodge podge.

s13lover

So, is Hainan another Chinese manufacture that is planning on coming to the US like Geely and Chery? or will just this voint venture car be sold here as a Mazda? (new MX-6?)

Detrich

It looks like an Acura RSX in the front and a G35 in the very back... Chinese car manufacturers are notorious for blatantly pirating designs because the gov't there doesn't really care about intellectual property rights- ie if it's reverse engineerable, then it's free game...

Razz1

That back end could also look like a Solara.

It looks like it's photochopped due to copy right infringments.

So who's first to jump on the band wagon to buy a Chinese car?

rglbegl

There are 5 companies coming out with cars. They figure only 2 will make it. I am not too familiar with them all . . . . but we do get told about them so we can be ready for it when it comes. Something about a communist country making a car that can/may KILL the rest of the market. Hopefully they will be greedy and keep prices up higher.

I HOPE it will be a mazda. It looks fairly nice, and mazda has a good reputation. (Notice I didnt say great rep)

alfy28

i guess not me, looks like a FF car

dtorre

I can't believe no one has said that the car looks exactly like the new eclipse ><

Razz1

Because it dosen't.

Mikeluvs8

Is It A Mazda???

bwayout

This is all I could find. I was curious too, so I did a google search.

mysql101

judging by how some of the crash tests in previous cars made in china faired, I think I'll pass.

my10ae

That picture is photochopped. Look that the first pic... it has the RX-8 side vents on the passenger front 1/4 panel and the next shot of the other side there is not vent. Also look at the exhaust tips, they are not proportionate to the rear of the car. Also look at the lower rear bumper cover, it has the rear rotary lamp and shape of an RX-8 rear bumper.

The front reminds me of a Hon-DUH Accord and the rear looks like its styled after a Dodge Intrepid!

BLAH!

SSJ 909

looks like a solara

lesper4

iTrader: (3)

looks like a super smooth G35/RSX but what is up with the fender grills not the look at all.

Razz1

Well you have to copy the RX-8 and Tiburion right?

rotarynews.com

HUM... when i showed those photos to a guy at Mazda, he said he didn't even know about the Mazda-Hainan relationship, as it must be a Japanese-Chinese agreement, not involving MNAO... He did say those photos scared him....

bwayout

I've also been lurking around all of the 2006 Peking International Motor Show sites tring to find out more ... this is what I just turned up.

Can anyone read Chinese (I tried bablefish but it wasn't much help)?
http://www.hnmazda.com/2006/show/index.asp

http://www.hnmazda.com/2006/show/s1.asp

Found this quicktime movie link ... but it takes a long time to load (it's been over 10 minutes and I havent seen anything but the credit: Shanghai Haima Aumotive R&D Co., LTD and it's less than a third uploaded ...)

http://www.hnmazda.com/2006/show/down/s1.mpg