It often happens that other brands copy the most successful cars of a famous house. Alfa Romeo has never been the victim of particularly serious plagiarism. Until today. Someone randomly found a bad copy.
Veteran readers of Quattromania know very well that with a little imagination, average engineering knowledge and a lot of chutzpah, an ordinary motorist can turn his smoky old subcompact or mid-range sedan into a mock-up of any supercar he wants. We have seen some truly sensational cases of plagiarism that probably the houses do not report out of compassion for the unfortunates who have built them.
Sometimes, the “fake” cars that are built they don’t really make sense to exist. Think about it: at least transforming a Suzuki into a Veyron, however questionable a logic may have, I don’t have a supercar, I will never be able to afford it, so I build it at home. But there are some truly inexplicable cases like the one we saw recently of a man who turned his mighty Audi R8 into a Ferrari for no real reason.
Or we could mention today’s case, really sad and on which there is not a lot of information given that the photo was obtained by the user who shared it on the social dedicated to photos Flickr completely randomly. The victim of plagiarism this time is the Alfa Romeo house even if as you are about to see, the question we ask ourselves is: why?
He would not deceive anyone
Usually, when you plagiarize an existing car, you start with a very clear idea in mind. If you decide to convert your 1990 Pontiac into a Lamborghini, you may decide first to which model of the house inspire you to ensure that the car is as similar as possible to the supercar it intends to plagiarize. In this case, that’s not exactly how it went.
The small car in the picture would have been photographed in a completely random way by a user of the social network on which mainly shots of various kinds are shared during a trip to Japan. The person who posted the shot was surprised by the bad plagiarism operated by this unknown owner who has seen fit to also attach the symbols of the Alfaclub and the typical Quadrifoglio symbol of the fastest Alphas on the car. And the rims? Stuff to make Alfists get hives …
According to the comments, the offending car could be a locally produced Subaru that “similar” to some Alfa model could just have the optical groups, comparable to those of the Mito if you have an unbridled imagination. And nothing, think traveling to a foreign country and finding something like that in front of you. At that point, the holiday is irreparably ruined …
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