Chinese motorist fined for trying to pass his car off as a Porsche

A motorist has been fined in central China after he tried to pass off his Chinese-made car as a luxury Porsche, a news website reported.

The man was stopped at a routine spot check in Liuyang in Hunan province on Tuesday, Thepaper.cn reported.

His car was plastered with Porsche badges and emblems, but police found it was in fact a Chinese Zotye SR9 model, according to the article.

The driver, whose full name was not given, was fined 500 yuan (US$72) for modifying the car so that it did not match its registration details.

The report said an SR9 costs about 100,000 yuan in China, while a Porsche Macan starts selling for over five times that amount.