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Holy smoke... some scary 40km/h crash tests... Good to see China keeping up it's quality performance...

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cars/chinese-sedan-earning-its-1+star-crash-rating-272111.php
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/unsafe-at-any-speed/another-chinese-car-absolutely-failing-its-crash-test-288294.php

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RC · Joined: 25 Mar 2007 Posts: 2637 Location: Australia

Holy $hit. What absolute POS they make.

This looks like the Chinese governments attempt at maintaining their zero population growth policy. And a really good reason to drive a big 4WD in the suburbs there.

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Rasta Monsta · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 11733 Location: PacNW

Good lord. . .I guess air bags dont do much when the chassis buckles up like that. . .
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Mike924 · Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 2601 Location: IoW UK

Terrifying. Looks like the crumple zone includes the passenger cell.

Maybe ejection seats would be better than airbags...
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Chrenan · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 3903 Location: Canada

30 years from now people will rave about Chinese cars like they do about Lexus and Infiniti from Japan. Even Hyundai from Korea has a strong following now. Look at the difference in opinion on Japanese/Korean cars now vs 1975.

Of course, that's a long way off, as proved by those videos!!!

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scottc · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 1:05 am Post subject:

Maybe so, but more likely you won't be able to tell the difference between a japanese motor, and a chinese copy.

http://thirdeyedumb.com/2007/04/chinese_car_factories_likes_to.html

924guy · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 2:51 am Post subject:

wow, i think id rather be on a bike than in one of those cars during an impact..at least on a bike you can flap like a bird when you fly off and try and steer into something soft...

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Slam · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:11 am Post subject:

Hmmm...effective population control?

But it's not the crashes, it's the lead in the paint that's dangerous! Don't let your children suck on these cars!
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Benino · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 7:49 am Post subject:

The dashboard comes back and presses against you to protect against whiplash. I can't believe you guys are slamming this new high tech restraint system.
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