Ready, steady, go! Euro invasion of the Chinese autos is upon us!
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In Europe, Lifan may just become a household name overnight. Lifan has obtained E-mark creditation from the Netherlands authorities which will allow them to begin sales in 18 European countries. Every aspect of the car, from tyres to seatbelts to glass in the windows received the E-mark, which is based off ECE regulations. The ECE regulations decieded by the Economic Commission for Europe. It is the proof of compliance with the laws and rules required by the EU. The Council of European communities in Brussels issues these directives and all members must accept approved products.
Lifan is not the first Chinese car to hit European streets en masse, before it went the Landwind, and the Brilliance models, both of which were humiliated as poor quality vehicles in various crash tests. Obviously Lifan need to get their 520 (pictured above) through the European crash tests succesfully the first time – everyone knows about the Brilliance BS6 crash test due to it being so bad, but hardly anyone knows about the second crash test where it did much better.
Lifan may well be the first Chinese auto manufacturer to get into Europe with a great car, at a low price, that comes with safety as standard.
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Is Lifan gonna go through Euro ncap test ? How high is the chance of passing the test ? Given that the Lifan 520 already passed the Russian test, but passing Euro test is another matter, but anyway keep a finger crossed for Lifan.
What do you think ash ?
The Russian Test confirmed to the Euro testing standards.
Russian crash tests use the specs as the NCAP, follow the same testing methods etc etc.
ah it does not have to go through the another Euro test ? But I’d prefer it to go through the ADAC test to have its reliability confirmed.
I remember someone saying for a car to go on sale in the EU, it doesnt have to go through the test…… Im not sure how accurate that is, as I hardly deal with the EU market.
http://www.cnnz.gov.cn/en/news_read.asp?ArticleID=1070
No, Lifan has never passed the EuroNCAP. It has probably done an ECE (94??) test, which is much easier. Brilliance had no problems with that test! So we fear the worst for Lifan as soon as Adac will bring one for their own fake EuroNCAP, like they did with Landwind and Brilliance. It is all a game of the European car producers, to give bad publicity to the Chinese cars. When someone is interested or has doubts about this, than I am more than happy to prove this point of view.
Erik,
Please – write an article and send it in!
And yes, the ECE 94 was what Lifan did, off the top of my head.
Naa the tests of Brilliance and Landwind were not fake, even the manager of Brilliance admitted that the car did bad and they promised improvement and they did it although he said there was media hype to stir things up. Sometimes we gotta face the reality, fail is a fail and pass is a pass. And yes I am pretty sure Lifan will have to go through Euroncap since the Russian crash test speed is lower than the EuroNcap one.
Btw how come I never heard anything about Brilliance went through the ECE 94 test ?
Ash, do you have any ideas about this ?
And yes Erik, please prove that ADAC results were fake
Thanks
Sorry, what I mean with fake is that Adac, together with a couple of other European consumer organisations, is a member of EuroNCAP. You can find all the vehicles which have been tested by EuroNCAP on their website: http://www.euroncap.com/carsearch.aspx
Surprisingly, you will not find the Landwind or the Brilliance. Because the Adac and some of the others have privately done (only) two tests: yes you can guess already: Landwind and Brilliance. Both tests were incomplete as by Landwind they only tested the front impact and by both they didn’t do the pedestrian test. So it is difficult to say how much stars the cars would have earned with these incomplete tests. Worse is that the Brilliance has been tested with the open roof left open: I have never seen one car in the offical EuroNCAP tested with an open roof.
This is why I call these Adac tests fake. Another reason is that they were strategically used: the Landwind results were send to the press at the second day of the Frankfurt Autoshow 2006, when there was at that moment much attention for the success of the first Chinese car in Europe. It was meant to be killing and it was killing. The EuroNCAP Institute never uses the tests in this way. Adac was paid to do the tests and they never wanted to give the names of the companies who paid for the tests.
People were guessing it was the German auto industry, especially Opel had a big interest as Landwind just had arranged the dealership of a big group of German Opel dealers who also were going to sell Landwinds. Something Opel didn’t like. (Landwind and Opel under one roof, and Opel made the Frontera before which had the same Isuzu ancestors as Landwind) The contract was cancelled after the Adac tests.
I agree both Landwind and Brilliance performed terribly and the factory (or the importers) should have tested the cars before launching them to find out how they would behave in such important tests. Brilliance learned the lesson and did this now in Spain.
About the EU test of Brilliance: I have seen pictures of them, these tests were also done in Germany, I thought it was by TUV in North Germany.
Erik,
Thank you for that update! When you say roof open, do you mean the sunroof?
Ash
I think this news has nothing to do with Euro 5 engine.
It´s worth to buy QUALITY from where ever is is made.
BUT DO NOT IMPORT TRASH.
Well I second this.