Unboxing a fake $4,000 Chinese G-Wagen to see how it compares to the real thing

The Supercar Blondie team got their hands on a fake G-Wagen from China and put it to the test to see how it compared to the real Mercedes G-Wagen.

The car was bought online and arrived in the US in a huge wooden box (see Sergi for scale).

The first thing worth noting is that this car was only $4,000, so the team didn’t go into it with super high expectations.

The seller swore it could handle anything a car should, but when the team put it through its paces, one brutal test exposed its biggest flaw.

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How does the fake G-Wagen compare to the real thing?

Supercar Blondie‘s Sergi Galiano unboxed a fake $4,000 G-Wagen for our latest YouTube video.

On first glance, the vehicle appeared to be very cheaply made, and the proportions were a fair way off, which is hardly surprising.

In fact, the fake G-Wagen looked like it was designed by somebody who only half-remembered what the real Mercedes G-Wagen looked like, but still decided to draw one from memory.

Size aside, it turned out the fake was surprisingly capable for a vehicle so cheap.

Supercar Blondie’s Sergi Galiano tested it in a bunch of different ways, and the vehicle fared better than expected (until it didn’t).

It wasn’t as good as the real Mercedes G-Wagen, unsurprisingly, but it survived some pretty thorough testing off-road.

It did fail the drift test but, more importantly, it also failed the market test.

Sergi tried to sell the car Atlanta Autos, and it didn’t go well.

No one wanted it.

Our second ‘fake’ luxury car

A while back, the team also got their hands on a scaled-down version of the Range Rover that looked roughly similar to the real one.

Coincidentally, that also cost $4,000.

Everything, from the body panels to the gear lever and leather interior, felt cheap and flimsy.

But performance was the biggest problem.

This fake Range Rover came with an electric engine boasting 3,500W, with a range of 90KM (56 miles), maxing out at 50KM/H (31MPH) – similar to an electric scooter.

We drag raced it against a real Range Rover, and the result was shockingly bad.

Sergi even tried beating the fake one by driving the real Range Rover in reverse, and he still won by a mile.