Chinese Car Crash Test Video #2
August 9, 2007 by Alborz Fallah
In case you’re wondering, the answer is yes, we have started a campaign against cheap and nasty cars. Another one to join the list is the Chery Amulet. Chery, China’s largest car manufacturer (who as we reported yesterday has just signed a deal with Fiat to build Alfa Romeos in China) has built not only an ugly car, but an ugly death trap.
In the 70s and 80s the Russians gave their Aircraft manufacturing technology to the Chinese, and after so many Chinese pilots died due to poor Russian engineering, the Chinese have returned the favour. Powered by a 1.6-litre engine with a beasty 65kWs of power (149Nm of torque), the Amulet has finally found itself in a Russian crash test lab, the results?
So who wants to order the first Chinese car in Australia? Click here to watch the Brilliance BS6 undergoing crash testing in Germany.
Tags: Crash Test Video
Yikes…
Even a SmartForTwo is sooo much safer than this POS !!!
Yep,
Wait till it finds its way to Australia!
Apparently the Russian car magazine said the steel folded like newspaper and the crash test dummy had to be removed from the car piece by piece following the test.
China- the first country to make a car out of Al-Foil..
That sort of cr//p should never be aloud in Australia, regardless of price!
The best thing to come out of China is fried rice and that was even ripped off from the Japanese! Yep in China its not about people but money and going by this car it will be cheap and people will buy it so China will make a killing ( literally)…
Is it made out of Bamboo or somthing, what a POS!
is it pronounced AM U LAY or A MULLET??
:)
just watched it….
you have got to be kidding right?????
Just viewed.If it is imported here with airbags,these will be of no use due to the profound deformation of the body shell.I cannot understand why a new car in 2007 offers inferior crash protection compared to many cars built as far back as the early 90’s.
Do any of the major manufacturers have an interest in Chery other than Fiat?IF the video is authentic,they should be publicly shamed.
what a pile of rubbish. absolute rubbish. although coming from china i’m not at all surprised.
The video is authentic
and Chrysler also has a big interest in Chery
280zx – “The best thing to come out of China is fried rice and that was even ripped off from the Japanese!”…
I wonder where do you get the fact from?
OMG ! It just kept crumpling! I hope that test dummy didn’t have a family.
That is one seriously scary car.
What a waste of good Aussie steel.
We should just leave the ore in the ground, it’ll be more refined than the product of this hideous experiment.
You can already buy a Made in China car in Australia, its a VW Polo.
With most major car makers making cars in China its only a matter of time before Australia gets some of the cars.
Wally, that is incorrect,
the Polo we get here is made in South Africa
Sorry my error.From 2003-2005 VW Polos were made in China by Shanghai VW. Left Australia in 2005 so not up with it.
http://www.edmunds.com/insidel.....eId=120791
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/e.....285865.htm
http://www.theaustralian.news......32,00.html
http://www.taipeitimes.com/New.....2003077731
http://www1.autotrader.com.au/.....2C00092DE2
Holden Barina is NOT much better than this!!
What is china doing!! Earlier last week chinese made toys were taken off the shelves because of lead in the paint, their prawns are full of antibiotics and they grow potatoes in human crap. Now their cars are made to fold up into chinese origami. The petrol used to power that piece of crap is more valuable than the car. I suppose china needs a form of population control. Jeez hope its banned from being sold here.
Relax! All is well. The Chinese government keeps telling everyone that everything is OK and that Chinese products can be trusted. Their ambassadors keep stressing that 99% of all good from China are safe and effective and produced to careful standards.
Why would they lie! Obviously the beaurocrats in Washington DC (USA) believe them.
Why would anyone advocate a worldwide bad on Chinese goods until they get their s4!t together? Lead in paint, melamine in food, ethylene glycol in toothpaste, and tires that fall apart without gumstrips are all just teency-tiny little itty-bitty mistakes. After-all no one is dying, right? Oh, wait a minute…..
This car is a facelift of an original Seat Toledo (which in turn is based on early ’80s VW Golf/Jetta Mk II), the production line was bought from VW, but it seems that the locals have used cheapest steel and reduced the number of welds to an absolute minimum since these things cost but are not seen by the consumer. I can bet it rusts quickly too! The good thing they will disintegrate quickly on Russian roads and Russian winters before too many people get killed!
You have to remember that these cars are not designed for
high speed driving. You would be lucky to get above 40km/h driving around in china. So owning one of these is
not so bad….if you live in china.
This car was designed for high speed driving by the Germans! It has Porsche designed engine even. This test is only the easier part of the EuroNcap, there was no side impact test done! One can imagine what would happen. If another car hits this deathtrap from the side even at 40 km/h then the whole family inside will be killed. And what is going to happen if another car hits from behind? Probably the petrol tank will explode! Almost forgot about the active safety: this car is equiped with top quality tyres and brake pads.
But as we can see from the video, the airbag was not even there, and the exterior design of this car looks like some 80’s cars. So I am not sure if this car was built based on latest tech or anything, it looks more like an old model like somewhere between 80s and 90s, not sure. I mean how can a 2007 car run without an airbag, that is unacceptable.
A little dissappointed with all the negative commentary out there…it was a crash test for gods sake…thats why thet do them…to make a better car!
They have just started getting into doing them…so give them time….no one cast the stones at the Koreans, yet their making a much better car.
Give new emerging nations a chance at engineering!
James………………you have to be kidding…….
Its human lives we are dealing with here not crash test dummies!
Chinese will do it cheaper cause thats what matters……..not lives!Do they even crash test…….I doubt it! Unless someone else paid for it!
well.. if that car reach australia’s soil.. I will buy it for sure!!! it’s cheap!!! it’s not gas thirsty!!! especially when the gas price now is reaching 1.7 per litre!!!
Just like the Jap and Korea…..
Just give them some time….China will rule the world again.
I will definately support the China…
Please do not forget and always remember …the chinese made paper so human been become more civilised..they made compass to now we can travel….they made gun powder so we can fight a better warfare…they invented the printing technology so today we can have mass communication…
Chery Amulet is a very cheap car. You practically get as much as you pay for it.