Brilliance Junjie Station Wagon Revealed (Cn)
Pininfarina is one of Italy's most respected and sought after design houses. China is up and coming in the automotive world but its leading car makers lack the design experience that established marques have. Easiest solution is to employ an independent design house do the styling, which resulted in the 2006 Best New Car award at the Beijing Motor Show for their Junjie saloon. This year the Junjie range is expanded with the Brilliance Junjie station wagon, also designed by Pinifarina.
Even though Pininfarina is most famous for their Ferrari and Maserati designs (most recently the Ferrari 599 GTB and Maserati GranTurismo S) but almost a third of their design accounts hail from China.
The Brilliance Junjie station wagon builds on the saloon, sharing its front end design. The estate's rear end is dominated by a wind-tunnel tested spoiler built into the roof. Overall the car displays some strong lines which should enable Brilliance to expand in the premium luxury segment.
The interior also builds on the saloon's example with classic, fluid lines but with greater functionality. The rear seats fold down completely creating a huge boot if necessary.
There's a lot of E-class feelings about this.
The whole 3/4 back view. Just think E-class lights and a different rear bumper and you're in.
The lights then are .3 5-series, .2 2008 Ford Mondeo and .5 1999 Toyota Avensis. ^^
actually it looks ok, but I was surpriced, that I thought about the same cars (Mercedes S211, Ford Mondeo and BMW E60 Touring) like ceven, when I see this backend. The front (same as saloon-version will be called BS5 or so in europe) reminds to BMW E90... to bad, other then, the hole design isn't bad, but not something new. I can imagine, that Pininfarina can make so much better for Joint-Ventures like this
ok,it looks good, but thanks E-class ,Mondeo and Toyota. chinese companies are growing faster and faster and faster even in designing and style,they are learning quikly.
Doesn't the DLO look like a current generation Mercedes E-Class wagon? Just a thought. Strange for Pininfarina to be copy cat on this one.
wow...right back to 1995 with that design marvel!
yeahh the profile looks like the current e class... not cool pininfaria not cool
comments like pininfarina copied from mercedes etc. are absolutely senseless. the profile reminds me even to a former mazda 626 estate which was earlier on the market than the current merc S211.
now have the merc desginers even copied from mazda? well, what i know is, that merc is really copying some details from competitors like the dashboard from the 7 series bmw for example.
Not Pininfarina's finest work. But then every design house has their horrors.