If it doesn't meet minimum safety standards (including crash tests) then it can't be sold.

 

Thats definitly good news.

 

See? this is why communism sucks. The makers of this are all earning the same thing, so, they have nothing to motivate them to make some GREAT cars.

 

The JiangLing Landwind

The name sounds like Jingaling. Not something Santa would be driving I don't think. Maybe one of his homeless elves or something.'

 

Galaxie!! OMG, that is the most horrendous crash test I have ever seen!! Nice find!! Oh my! :shock:

 

With a crash like that, I'm surprised it didn't explode. The engineers behind this "vehicle" should be burned at stake for conjuring up a deathtrap.

 

DOn't kid yourself, some big cheeses in the peoples party will be getting very rich on the back of this mobile coffin.

Once the Euro Ncaps are done, the EU might well ban the car. but they did allow the Fiat Cincequento, you had a statistical 95% chance of death in a 30mph head on crash.

I for one will not go anywhere near that car. It is true what the article said when they stated that is was 1990's in terms of safety technology, and early 90's at that!

 

So does that mean that my car would be worse than that in a crash? I think i'm gonna be sick.

 

That honestly made me sick to my stomach. I wonder if the people who purchase this thing pay any attention to the safety ratings? How can a company take a vehicle that bad all the way to final production? It's completely unethical.

 

I think it is just a poorly designed and executed car.

I think everyone who has a car built and designed by a competent car company, they can rest assured.

Even a common car built 20 years ago can probably take a better shot than this deathtrap.

What scares me is intead of the steering column collapsing, it almost acts like a javelin.

 

SUVs with 4x4, leather and A/C are pretty expensive in Europe, but this one is only 10,000 euros. You can't have everything and small price, it just doesn't go together.

 

What a price for safety.

 

Maybe these designs were on the hard disks that got stolen from Los Alamos back in the late '90s...

 

man your safer being ejected from that car. Might as well put your big wheel on the expressway.

 

We had a German exchange student the recently and when asked about the autobahn and its speedlimitlessness and he said "ya, we go fast, and when we crash we die" and then he laughed- I assume he was kidding, but there is a reason the standards are different here

What I worry about is when these Chinese things get to America- they'd meet the bare minimum standards if they did and would be so cheap they'd hurt American auto makers who are already in a world of hurt for relying so much on SUV's

 

Driving standards are different in Europe because for one you have to be 18 to drive and writen and driving exams are really hard, so you don't have 16 year old kid, whose parents just bought him fast car doing crazy nonsence on the street (I saw that many times in the USA). For two, older people don't drive that much, you have no idea how many foreign people that came to the USA are surprised that pretty much anyone here can get driver's license. My mom was in accident last year, an 83-year-old woman in minivan ran red light and crashed into her Camry ($5,000 damage) and there are many people like on the streets in the States. You won't see something like that in Europe.

 

I meant safety standards, but yes, there are different requirements in Europe, you are correct

 

Where I'm from nobody cares about safety. People just want car that can get really good gas mileage (Volkswagens diesels from 1980s are really at high price) and that is realiable.

 

 

You might want to think about one fact: that Chinese deathtrap is HEAVILY based on the early 90s Opel Frontera (the Chinese bought the rights to this vehicle in recent times. In Europe I think it went out of production in the second part of the 90s). Opel is a GM-owned German car maker...
So, if you really want to look at it closer, this piece of crap is indeed early 90s technology, but German/American technology... NOT AT ALL invented by the Chinese, so in my opinion: zero motivation to make it, as they bought the rights to produce it from Opel (therefore they needed no motivation......), but I guess they stripped it down or something like that...
I indeed think the Chinese messed with it (namely making it what it is in order to be able to sell it at mega low prices and still make a profit), because I remember that Opel Frontera's were not a disaster like this thing.