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Brilliant (this article is anything but)












Brilliance Auto is a Chinese car manufacturer that in addition to assembling BMW's has a little side business with its "own" designs. I put "own" in quotes because this car has a lot of influences from other manufacturers' designs, but hey this Jinjue model is easy on the eyes!

I hadn't heard much about Brilliance before so I visited Brilliance's website. It looks like they currently have a Zunchi sedan that is a Pininfarina facelift of its rival ItalDesign's 2002 Zhonghua sedan. Kind of interesting that Brilliance switched camps, isn't it? If you take a look at the VR model on the site, you’ll see that the side profile is very similar to this new Jinjue model. The front and rear clips are different and the bigger sedan has a longer trunk. From what I can see, it looks to me like this new car is a slightly smaller, "tightened up" model.

Enough with the (potential) misinformation! Let me distract you with eleven pictures of the car itself. As an added bonus with your Ginsu purchase, I'll also chip in these three shots of the VR car from the website. Thanks to Joe for the story inspiration.