You probably heard about the BMW X5 clone that called itself CEO and was built by China’s Shanghuan Automobile. It was an awful rip-off after the original SUV the Germans made, the E53 model. Even though the Munich-based company actually won a process against the Chinese in a court of law, that didn’t stop them from selling the car in the meantime.
That’s how a couple of people around the world decided it was a good idea to buy a Chinese-made car that roughly looked like the X5. It was cheaper and looked rather decent so why not go for it, right? Well, we could think of a couple of reasons, reliability and build quality coming out from the top of our head. Some didn’t think of it this way.
One of them was Wolfgang Blaube. That’s right, he’s German. That’s not all though, he’s also a journalist for AutoBild. Why an experienced man, working in the field, would make such a poor choice, is beyond us but we reckon it has something to do with the price. Just a wild guess....
Either way, Wolfgang recently noticed that his car was actually a pile of rusted out parts that were no good anymore. That comes as a surprise since the chassis only gathered 100,000 km (or roughly 62,000 miles) on the odometer. At this stage, a BMW is usually just warming up, a lot of times cars made in the plants of the Munich-based company covering even half a million clicks easy if they’ve been taken care of.
Not the CEO though. As you’re about to see in the video, the car reached an incredibly bad stage that can only be characterized by one word: rust! That’s right, almost everything succumbed to the pesky brown rust and started to fail. From the engine bay to the exhaust pipes, everything basically turned red.
What to do then? Well, Wolfgang called up his colleagues from AutoBild and set the car on fire. That’s the treatment he considered this thing deserved. Truth be told, it wasn’t the car’s fault but rather his own for buying it in the first place.
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