Chinese sedan earns a 1-Star crash rating
(This is a reprint from Jalopnik.com who got from the Autoblog)
While the folks at the German ADAC institute may not have gotten quite as much of a laugh (if you don’t believe us — wait until about 15 seconds into the video) out of their recent test of the new Brilliance BS6 — the recent Chinese entry into the Euro luxe import sedan market — as EuroNCAP got out of the test of Jiangling Motors’ Landwind SUV back in 2005, General Tso’s new hotness still didn’t fare so well. OK, that’s being nice — actually, the BS6 crumpled up like a coke can and received only one star for the 40 mph offset frontal crash test. First China came for our cats, then our teeth, and now the make-a-buck yet socially-socialist country’s coming after our knees and our skulls. – Ray Wert
(note the strike thru… I didn’t really get that far down in Ray Wert’s paragraph to realize what he was saying. I kinda stopped at “crumpled up like a coke can”. The rest is Ray’s sad attempt at being funny.)
A person crashing this car at 40MPH would likely not survive.
16. July 2007 at 12:49 pm
Thanks for the reprint of that racist paragraph.
16. July 2007 at 6:50 pm
The Geely of cars.
16. July 2007 at 9:48 pm
General Motors has quite a sizable investment in China. They are producing quite a few engines and transmissions in China now for American market cars and trucks. So you better get used to this kind of quality in domestic vehicles.
16. July 2007 at 9:52 pm
Rented a Chinese no-name 250 cc scooter in South Beach (Miami) that was new.
The drive belt snapped in the middle of major road and locked up the back tire. I swore never again and stick with Japanese reliability.
17. July 2007 at 11:44 am
dead pets, toxic toothpaste, and unsafe vehicles being commented on are not “racist”.