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WTF Tuesday, Special Edition: Evil Russkies Poaching Cheerful Chery Tiggos!

By John VoelckerJohn Voelcker, August 18th, 2009

Just when you think the auto world is ending in an onslaught of grim grey Korean econoboxes ... life gets better. And sometimes you just can't make this [stuff] up.

Take last Friday's little news item from WardsAuto, for example. A Russian company that was supposed to assemble copies of a Japanese Toyota from Chinese kits has instead been building and selling the little Tiggos itself. Oh, the horror.

We can do no better than to excerpt the salient points of a few sentences that lay out the dastardly deed:

"It has come to our attention that...entities in Russia have been assembling and/or distributing Tiggo vehicles without our...

Just when you think the auto world is ending in an onslaught of grim grey Korean econoboxes ... life gets better. And sometimes you just can't make this [stuff] up. Take last Friday's little news item from WardsAuto, for example. A Russian company that was supposed to assemble copies of a Japanese Toyota from Chinese kits has instead been building and selling the little Tiggos itself. Oh, the horror. We can do no better than to excerpt the salient points of a few sentences that lay out the dastardly deed: "It has come to our attention that...entities in Russia have been assembling and/or distributing Tiggo vehicles without our... Read More

Tags: China, Russia, Chery, assembly, factory, Chinese, Chrysler, toyota, Brand

Posted in: Toyota, SUVs / Wagons, RAV4