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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social

How it started. How it’s going. Does China copy, or does it improve?

Cyber truck GAC Pickup 01, China
sep 1, 2025, 6:26 am • 111 7

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Elliot Artist @elliot500.bsky.social

There's a big market for tiny dicks.

sep 1, 2025, 8:24 am • 1 0 • view
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Alejandro Soberano @alejandrosoberano.bsky.social

It does both.

sep 1, 2025, 6:46 am • 0 0 • view
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LunchMeat Art @lunch-meat.bsky.social

Little of column A, little of column B. There has been many, many essays and works about what happens when China "gets" capitalism and how the Chinese cultural and social models will completely change the game in ways that the more reckless western capitalists won't understand. This is just that.

sep 1, 2025, 6:41 am • 2 0 • view
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Chris H @chris-huggable.bsky.social

I mean, it's not like the bar is that high, cuz if it has an actual frame, and panels that aren't glued on, it's an improvement 🤷‍♂️

sep 2, 2025, 2:30 am • 0 0 • view
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Mr Swell Fella 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇫🇮🇸🇪🇩🇰🇬🇪 @realmrswell.bsky.social

How could anyone not improve on the elon trash dumpster 😂😂😂

sep 1, 2025, 10:20 am • 1 0 • view
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ilDav 🇮🇹 🫶 🇺🇦🇹🇼 @davidedesantis.io

It's really hard to say about that fuckary of vehicle

sep 1, 2025, 8:46 am • 1 0 • view
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Michal @michalf.bsky.social

LOL, both designers should re-think their career paths, seriously! 😂

sep 1, 2025, 7:56 am • 2 0 • view
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Confused Penguin @confusedpenguin.bsky.social

What in the abomination are the wheels? Both look like crap, but the Chinese one as less of a crap.

sep 1, 2025, 3:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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Smelly Sam the French @smellysam.bsky.social

A polished redesigned turd is still a turd.

sep 1, 2025, 7:40 am • 4 0 • view
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V_Ylistalo @vylistalo.bsky.social

Definitely improves, but still it's not much

sep 1, 2025, 6:46 am • 6 0 • view
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Tony Borroz @nemounruhe.bsky.social

Well they sure as hell couldn't make it any worse.

sep 1, 2025, 6:52 am • 4 0 • view
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The REAL FAJA @thereal-faja.bsky.social

It all depends. Does the glue let loose when it gets wet?

sep 1, 2025, 7:48 am • 1 0 • view
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stratosoul.bsky.social @stratosoul.bsky.social

Steal, copy, make a cheap copy, rinse and repeats

sep 1, 2025, 8:14 am • 0 0 • view
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Steven Buck @lairddinnaken.bsky.social

My eyes (both of them) 🙈

sep 1, 2025, 6:36 am • 12 0 • view
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Jack Aubrey @cptjackaubrey.bsky.social

Both are reminiscent of what a Boy Scout would enter in a soapbox derby if starting with a wombat poop.

sep 1, 2025, 6:53 am • 8 0 • view
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Damianow @damianow.bsky.social

I don't think either one looks like something you want to drive.

sep 1, 2025, 6:32 am • 5 0 • view
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The Flying Spaghetti Monster @almightynoodle1.bsky.social

PS1 graphics vs PS2 graphics.

sep 1, 2025, 7:12 am • 1 0 • view
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Karsten Simmonds @karstensimmonds.bsky.social

It's not a copy at all (Unless you call every gray'isch pickup'isch design a copy of each other), but both are ugly as hell.

sep 2, 2025, 5:45 am • 0 0 • view
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Martini Henrie @martinihenrie.bsky.social

A turd and a polished turd?

sep 1, 2025, 9:28 am • 1 0 • view
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russ.bot @russ.bot

Polishing a turd

sep 2, 2025, 9:27 am • 0 0 • view
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John Martin🇪🇺🔶 #FBPPR 👩‍❤️‍👨+👫🐶 Rtd🚒 #GetPRDone @itsjohnmartin.bsky.social

The designers have probably grown up watching Minecraft.

sep 1, 2025, 9:14 pm • 1 0 • view
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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social

As ugly as the CT is, the one on the right looks like an amateur attempt to build the same thing out of Lego without having the parts needed to get the angles right.

sep 1, 2025, 9:22 am • 0 0 • view
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Fischkopp🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @fischkoppnorth.bsky.social

They improved even the uglyness.

sep 1, 2025, 8:30 am • 1 0 • view
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BK @rebuthered.bsky.social

Gimme the China one for sure.

sep 1, 2025, 11:27 pm • 0 0 • view
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bbdd333 @bbdd333.bsky.social

Like comparing EGA vs VGA on my 80386 under Win 3.1

sep 1, 2025, 6:30 am • 1 0 • view
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Brosemite Sam @brosemitesam.bsky.social

Only Elon Musk could design such a piece of shit that the Chinese knockoff appears to be an improvement.

sep 1, 2025, 6:29 am • 22 1 • view
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I am the cops @asciim0v.bsky.social

"Chinese knockoff" is increasingly becoming a dated concept.

sep 1, 2025, 6:35 am • 19 0 • view
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George Kaplan @ambassadoreast.bsky.social

I remember when “made in Japan” was a punchline. Behold the Lexus LC 500 convertible.

sep 1, 2025, 7:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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Michal @michalf.bsky.social

This one is the very definition of the chinese knock-off. Except the original was so horrible, that the knock-off could not get worse. Even if it, evidently, tried.

sep 1, 2025, 7:57 am • 7 0 • view
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FunnyPaper @fonzie-is-cool.bsky.social

If the goal is murdering pedestrians, the Chinese one is a slight improvement

sep 1, 2025, 7:50 am • 1 0 • view
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DrGeophysics @drgeophysics.bsky.social

Hilarious. Conspicuous consumption and our gilded age.

sep 1, 2025, 2:11 pm • 1 0 • view
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Christian Nola @chrisloan.bsky.social

V 1.0: SUCKS. V 2.0 SUCKS too

sep 2, 2025, 2:07 am • 0 0 • view
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Anna @kissankuono.bsky.social

It's not as ugly, but that's not saying munch.

sep 1, 2025, 6:27 am • 17 0 • view
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чи мірє дохла△ русꑭя про к△вомашини @cosmonaut-ok.bsky.social

I just don't give a single flying f"ck...

sep 1, 2025, 6:41 am • 1 0 • view
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neonpurplestar 🇺🇦 @neonpurplestar.bsky.social

both are horrible

sep 1, 2025, 7:01 am • 2 0 • view
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Shigsby @shigsby.bsky.social

Who farted!?

sep 1, 2025, 7:32 am • 0 0 • view
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marco 🇮🇹🇪🇺🇺🇦 @candido2k.bsky.social

Shit makes the flowers grow

sep 1, 2025, 10:28 am • 0 0 • view
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Questionable Habits @questionablehabits.bsky.social

I'll need some influencers to shoot at the second one before I decide.

sep 1, 2025, 6:45 am • 4 0 • view
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Smelly Sam the French @smellysam.bsky.social

50" Cal? M2 with heavy barrel? APIT?

sep 1, 2025, 7:44 am • 1 0 • view
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Tim Altmann @timaltmann.bsky.social

I don't think you can polish a turd

sep 1, 2025, 9:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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Tom Crain @tomcrain.bsky.social

They’re both ugly, the Muskmobile is worse though.

sep 1, 2025, 11:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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Gerard MacDonell @gmacdonell.bsky.social

What is the quality being improved here? ;)

sep 1, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mihai @mih404.bsky.social

To be honest they both look like shit. But that's what happens if you copy shit I guess 🤣🤣

sep 1, 2025, 6:31 am • 28 0 • view
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Vagoréxico @joseroman.bsky.social

Blame Minecraft.

sep 1, 2025, 7:50 pm • 0 0 • view