New Chinese SUV gets 0.0 on Crash Ratings

Discussion in 'Other Cars' started by Tempus, Oct 18, 2005.

  1. Potential Buyer

    Potential Buyer New Member

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    While it's true that the site showed a German VW Touraeg (or whatever) as an example of a safe car, and used non-German cars as examples of unsafe cars, China is not exactly known for accurate news reports so I'd take a .cn site with a grain of salt.
     
  2. DaveG

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    By comparison:

    http://www.newstreet.it/article_id_627_Toy...Crash-Test.html

    Same crash test outfit that tested the Chinese car... A bit of a different result though...

    You can view the crash-test videos here (doesn't seem to work in firefox)

    http://www.toyota-europe.com/showroom/mm_index.html

    Just select Prius, then movies, then pick your crash test video of choice.
     
  3. Spunky

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    Thanks, Dave!
    Very reassuring.
     
  4. hockeybrat

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    Wow, thanks for the links to the crash tests! That Chinese car was really scary!