The risk of cloning is high, one company i worked for subbed out manufacture of a product to a company in china,
we ordered 50,000 units and had to pay for the tooling and set up etc...
they made 100,000 units and sold the other half as unbranded copies.
This situation has a ring of that situation about it.
We couldn't do a thing about it and the revenue loss was substantial, chinese manufacturers are like any other business only interested in the money they can make, if they can charge you for tooling and then make more after fulfilling your order sadly it is your look out as there laws do not protect you.
Durango decided to manufacture in china/far east i would imagine to keep cost down and profits up, much as people love the car i would imagine a good margin is made on its sale. In business if you make a descision around cost you have to live with the consequence and that morals and ethics can often be overridden with sufficient finance.
edit- couldn't help but laugh their website has the phrase 'copyright 2005-2010' now that takes the biscuit
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