Posted on 10/21/2005 10:45:30 AM PDT by Sir Gawain
The first Chinese car to be sold in Europe has scored zero — the worst-ever score — in safety tests.
The JiangLing Landwind was displayed at the Frankfurt Motor Show last week and is expected to arrive in British showrooms within months. It is already on sale in Holland, Germany and Belgium and has been billed as the vanguard of a new invasion of Chinese vehicles. The two-ton 4x4 scored zero stars in crash tests last week by the ADAC, the German automobile club, which carries out tests for Euro NCAP. “It had a catastrophic result,” said a spokesman for the ADAC. “In our 20-year history no car has performed as badly.” Testers calculated that a driver would be unlikely to survive a head-on collision at 40mph, and in a side-on collision at 30mph the driver would suffer severe head and chest injuries due to a lack of side protection. “This car seems to belong in the 1990s in terms of engineering,” said Chris Patience, head of technical policy at the AA Motoring Trust. “We will wait for the official Euro NCAP results, but if it really is that bad we hope people will think very carefully before buying this car.” With an expected £10,000 price tag, the Landwind is designed to rival cars such as the Kia Sportage and Hyundai Tucson, both about £5,000 more expensive. The Chinese maker plans to sell at least 1,000 models before July 2006.
http://www.thecaddythatzigs.com/landwind_crash.wmv
JiangLing BreakWind.
They're cheap, but an hour later you need to buy another one.
It's like the car ATE the crash-test dummy! The dashboard swallowed him up!
Thats awful! LOL!
good lord. that crash test dummy earned his paycheck that day.
Buy it or we'll kill you !
"OUR CRASH BREAK WIND!"
Two Tons? Must be those euro-tonnes.
Lol, can't help but laugh.
It's also very sad to think that people will actually own these vehicles. And be injured and killed in the them.
Looks like China finally figured out how to keep their population growth in check.
Well...it IS Chna we are talking about. The only thing contemporary about China is Hong Kong and that is NO THANKS to China.
then you have to ride in Peykan!
ROTFLMAO!!
So, how long before our government is shoving these down our throats?
is 40mph in china like 180mph in USA?
LMAO...if those things crack apart that easily they should at least hide a slip of paper in there with your fortune on it...or write one on the airbag
Is it just me or does that look like an older model Ford Explorer?
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