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There are clones and there are clones. While some approach’s comely close such as Lifan Motors’ exertion to present childbirth to a five-door MINI Cooper, other like Jiangling Motors’s Landwind X8 that made its premiere at the Shanghai Display this week, is a deceased ringer for Mitsubishi ’s Outlander. For those of you with a feeble recall, China’s Landwind became known for being the foremost Chinese automaker to go the European market-place with the SUV that spectacularly failed a fall trial carried outside near the ADAC, Germany’s largest auto club.

And it’s not sole the outer plan of the Outlander that has been copied, it’s also the inside as the X8 gets the identical precise dashboard styling with the extensive set down implement panel featuring the two round tube-like structures.

But you quiet haven’t heard the superlative piece of the narrative; according to the Landwind, the X8 desire be offered with two engines: a common-rail turbo diesel from Italy’s VM Motori that develops 140HP and 350Nm of torque and Obtain this- a Mitshubishi sourced, 2.4-liter 4-cylinder gasoline motor with 150HP!

Sales of the Landwind X8 are to start in China during the subsequent half of the year.

Mitsubishi Outlander SUV

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Landwind X8 SUV