Is it just me or is this a shameless rip-off. Its even called a Cool Bear! This ruthless plagiarism seems to be a bit of a habit with chinese car makers. Some of the home team efforts are like bad acid trips. ps its full handle is Great Wall Cool Bear

where do i know that front end from?

I would say designers of the Nissan Note would be more annoyed by this effort.

FIAT allegedly thinking of taking action:

http://www.italiaspeed.com/2006/cars/financial/12/great_wall/1312.html

Funny enough, I had a Nissan Note as a hire car for work not long back. Keep it to yourselves, I was actually quite impressed...

I think though, if you are going to buy a Chinese car, there is only one to have (bit slow to load at the moment but worth the wait):

http://www.gwm.com.cn/eng/html/product/hoverpai_intro.asp

Marco De Bonis, the Italian Marketing Manager for Great Wall Motors, told Associated Press yesterday that he agreed that there were some similarities between their Peri model and the Fiat Panda

some! some! open your eyes man! the doors, the arches, rear bumper, the list goes on, i wonder if the welding and safety cage are as bad as on the landwind......

Just remember if you're going to buy anything chinese you might enjoy it when you first get it but you'll soon want another one in an hour or so.

Yeah, I would think Nissan designers would be more annoyed as although it has the overal basica body shape as the Panda, there are so many design details and elements from the Note it's unreal. Why do these Chinese manufacturers keep nicking european and japanese cars?

My favourite is their copy of the current Rolls Royce Phantom, that's what I call cheek.

Ironic copying Japanese cars as the first Japanese cars were copies of European ones.