Fake 1961 Rolls Royce Phantom? Soar Automobile from China got one for you!
Published on January 27, 2012 by Tycho de Feyter
This might look like a real 1961 Rolls Royce Phantom but it is not. In fact it is a ‘wedding car’ made by a Chinese company called Qingdao Soar Automobile. Essentially a coach-building outfit that makes ambulances and police vehicles, but they also have a department that makes special vehicles for weddings.
As for today their line-up consists of only one car; this brilliant Rolls Royce Phantom-clone. It doesn’t really have a name, Soar simply calls it ‘classic style wedding car’.
Qingdao Soar Automobile is based in the great city of Qingdao in Shandong Province. Their old name is Jinma Auto Corporation, Jinma also made extremely weird wedding cars about which I will tell you in a later story.
I want mine in pink. The RR-clone is based on on a stretched platform from the Brilliance BS6 sedan and powered by a Mitsubishi-sourced 2.4 four-cylinder (4G69S4N) that poops out 100kw and 200nm. The bodywork is created by Soar itself. Size: 6900/1920/1750, wheelbase is 4800. Weight: 2090kg.
This sort of car is mostly used for weddings and mostly in the countryside where farmers want to impress each other with their ‘Rollers’ (and later at dinner with the biggest cow on the table). City folk can hire a real Rolls Royce these days, so sadly Soar’s machinery won’t come around very often in Beijing or Shanghai.
Price of a base-spec Soar classic style wedding car starts around 250.000 yuan, or 39.000 US dollar. Not too much for a car that is almost as good as the real thing…
Inside the factory.
Rollers rolling down the line. Rollers for everyone.
Old England never made so many.
Yez, this is a real one indeed. Short wheelbase here. Soar got that one too:
Wheels are kinda cool.
Via: Soar Automobile.
Saturday, 28 January om 02:15
How can we obtain their contact details for import (in english please)? A friend of mine wants to open a limousine service for weedings and VIP transport. This is exactly the type of car for this purposes and he cannot afford a real Rolls Royce. But I thinks that nobody will object these cars for just a few hours transportation.
Saturday, 28 January om 05:14
[...] Fooled you. It is a ‘wedding car’ made by a Chinese company called Qingdao Soar Automobile. According to Carnewschina (which has more pictures,) “This sort of car is mostly used for weddings and mostly in the countryside where farmers want [...]
Saturday, 28 January om 11:12
Traditionally, Rolls Royce would have taken every legal step imaginable to put a stop to this. Nowadays, under the BMW regime I’m not sure what they would do
Saturday, 28 January om 14:53
[...] Fooled you. It is a ‘wedding car’ made by a Chinese company called Qingdao Soar Automobile. According to Carnewschina (which has more pictures,) “This sort of car is mostly used for weddings and mostly in the countryside where farmers want [...]
Tuesday, 31 January om 21:28
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Wednesday, 1 February om 08:32
those fucking chinese just copy everything, with no shame at all.. I hope they get sued
Tuesday, 7 February om 08:10
BMW did in fact take A Chinese car manafacture to court for making a fake BMW X5,called the “Shuanghuan CEO” which looks remarkably the same as an origional BMW X5. The Court in China said that the car looked nothing like an X5, and BMW lost their case.
A Japanese company called, “Mitsuoka” has been producing cars for a number of years now that look similar to some famous brands.
Tuesday, 7 February om 21:02
[...] It is a ‘wedding car’ done by a Chinese association called Qingdao Soar Automobile. According to Carnewschina (which has some-more pictures,) “This arrange of automobile is mostly used for weddings and mostly in a panorama where [...]
Wednesday, 22 February om 12:53
Hello:
Really I can’t very good replica,I liked to know, how I can be contacted with the company, I know that the company name is “Qingdao Soar Automobile”, but i don’t have any telephone number or mail address. And I interested whichever models exist;
And if they heve on sale like being able to realise it.
Saturday, 10 March om 03:58
[...] Fooled you. It is a ‘wedding car’ made by a Chinese company called Qingdao Soar Automobile. According to Carnewschina (which has more pictures,) “This sort of car is mostly used for weddings and mostly in the countryside where farmers want [...]