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Its that time of the year again, when the Chinese C-NCAP smash up some more cars, and entertain us with the results. This time its actually good news, with all the marques involved, both domestic and foreign, receiving good results.
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Last week we showed you crash test results for the Hafei Lobo, Brilliance BS4, Changan Ben Ben.
Today, C-NCAP, the body responsible for carrying out crash tests in China published the results.
We’re not entirely sure how the Chang’an Ben Ben, and the Lobo came out with the same final score, from viewing the pictures (click the above links to see) you can easily see that the Ben Ben doesnt pin the driver to the seat via the dashboard like the Lobo does.
The Chinese government group responsible for crash testing vehicles in China has recently crash tested a group of vehicles. We’ll be looking at these vehicles over the next few posts.
First up is the Brilliance BS4, otherwise known as the Jun Jie in China was tested. Test results do not appear very good.
100% front impact.
40% offset impact
The offset crash test does not appear good, especially as the dashboard has landed on the driver. It almost looks like the driver is pinned to the seat.
Side Impact
The side impact does not look very good, although it is not absolutely terrible.
C-NCAP has not yet released the results of the BS4, however others are estimating around 3 stars.
It should be pointed out that Brilliance did receive 0 stars in the German crash test (although it was unofficial) and then received 3 stars later on with an improved car in Spain.
C-NCAP the Chinese crash test authority that awards stars to each manufacturer depending on how safe, or unsafe their vehicles are much in the same way as the European NCAP, although it has to be pointed out there are minor differences between the two groups testing procedures.
In this months crash test round up we had:
Chevrolet Spark - 2 stars
Kia Cerato - 3 stars
Chang’an Ford Focus - 5 stars (!)
Honda Civic - 4 stars
FAW Besturn - 4 stars
Nissan Teana - 5 stars
It would be wise to point out that all of the above cars are made in China via their respective JV partners and are not imported vehicles. The FAW Besturn (stupid name, we think) is based off a Mazda 6 chassis/engine and was designed by an Italian design house. We will talk about this car later on China Car Times.
The Brilliance BS4, recently exported to Germany, has gone through the European NCAP crash tests, here are the results:
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We’re never too sure if to translate Chinese car names directly into English or just to leave them in Chinese, but Geely’s Zi You Jian roughly translates into English as being ‘Free Vessel or the ‘Freedom Vessel’ wierd, eh? But I guess Geely thought it sounded good in Chinese.
Here are the crash test pictures taken from acspy.com, the translation was done by China Car Times as usual.
On December 12th 2006 at the Chinese Car and Technology Research centers crash test laboratory, C-NAP, the body responsible for Chinese car safety successfully carried out a crash test on a Geely Zi You Jian automobile on all aspects of the cars outer shell. Representatives from the Geely’s technology center and several different journalists were present to witness the test.
From the below picture, you can see that the A post (pillar between the drivers door and rear left hand side door) is rather weak, in the final analysis the speed of 50km is still rather low.
Although in recent years Geely Automobiles has achieved great development and has obtained a lot of praise, passing this test makes us believe that Geely has a long road to travel down. Geely needs to change a lot of aspects of the cars safety, we believe that Geely, Chery etc will have promising futures but need to focus on passing every new challenge.
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