Meet the Landwind E32, China’s shameless Range Rover Evoque knock-off

If you thought cheap Chinese knock-offs of Western goods were limited to clothes, tech and Apple stores, you might want to spend a little time looking at their cars.

Take the Landwind E32 for instance. Remind you of anything? Unless you’re pretty much blind, you’ll recognise it as a complete and utter rip-off of the Range Rover Evoque.

While the image above comes from a series of patent drawings, meaning that it hasn’t gone into production yet, it’s such a shameless ripoff that if it was a cashier, it wouldn’t even blush if it was caught with its hands in the till.

So lazy is the copy, Autoblog notes, that Landwind hasn’t even bothered to change the Range Rover font.

According to Car News China, the Landwind E32 is set to go on sale towards the end of this year in China for 120 000 yuan (US$19 175).

As is to be expected from knock-offs of this sort, the design might pass but the stuff under the hood probably doesn’t quite pass muster. Power for instance comes courtesy of a a 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine pushing out 190 horsepower and 184 pound-feet of torque.

While we don’t have any stats to back this assertion up, we’re also fairly certain that it won’t quite have the same kind of off-road authority as the car it’s trying so hard to imitate