Greatwall showed a lot of guts when it brought the mad i7 into the open. Many warned that the Chinese market wasn’t ready yet for such a wild machine. But which market would, ever? So Greatwall went ahead and found out those boring naysayers were actually right.

The i7 doesn’t fly out of the showroom even though it loox like it can, I haven’t seen one here in Beijing since it came to market. Greatwall now comes with an alternative i7 with a redesigned front (it’s the one on the right…). The name will be the same and it will be sold next to the dragonfaced car. Seems some ego’s clashed in Great Wall’s headquarters. The alternative will debut at the Beijing Auto Show in April.

The Thing.

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