Re: A8 everywhere but US?

["Psychos 'R Us" <honge@creighton.edu>]

> > Of other interest was the numerous Audi 100's in Beijing. But then
> > the local people we were working with indicated that there is a plant
> > located near Beijing and one can actually find "knock-off" Audi's on
> > the road. Gee, I wonder what's under the sheet metal.
> > 
> Several months ago I read about Chinese knock-offs of Jeep Grand 
> Wagoneers.  Supposedly they're pieces of junk underneath the 
> sheetmetal.  Can you imagine living with such slack trademark laws?  
> It seems awfully bizarre to me.

Quite common. There's a mfr named Yue Loong, they've been making clones 
of Nissan, Toyota, and Honda for loooong time. Supposedly these are under 
license, but I think it's more like 50-50 (50% are licensed, other 50% 
are not). Of couse, no tech support or quality gurantee...

On the same island, you can buy ANY commerical (U.S.) software easily for 
under $30 -- providing that you find the "people" (which is quite easy). 
Pirated audio cassettes and videos are everywhere (and they're becoming 
so big that they're beginning to do CDs and LDs).

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