OT:They may look the same but they ain't made the same!

[leicesterboy15]

WTF!

Scary Stuff! A few years catching up to do me thinks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Ts94rjr4M&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F06LjugtIUo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dimg2n2Azwg&feature=related

[leicesterboy15]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87KywXNLNTw&feature=related

[632 Regal]

somehow I think Id rather be in this one.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87KywXNLNTw&feature=related

[Nick.Hay]

Well... They have to stem the population growth somehow...


Pretty amazing that Chinese government let these on the road.. all about the GDP I guess!!

I wonder how the car they built with an E46 front end and C-class merc rear worked??

[whiskychaser]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87KywXNLNTw&feature=related
Looks like a blanket drops down on everybody's heads ???:)

[xspeedy]

Is that a copy of the Rodeo? They were close in crash performance :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DLAWPhGB2w

Remember that if you took an E34 and threw it into an offset, it would fold pretty quickly. It wasn't that long ago that we had cars that performed like this in offsets.

As far as why China doesn't care - people are in huge quantities, so the loss of human life isn't a big deal.

[Macv]

Looks like a blanket drops down on everybody's heads ???:)

You might get cold after a wreck.

[Robin-535im]

WTF!

Scary Stuff! A few years catching up to do me thinks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Ts94rjr4M&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F06LjugtIUo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dimg2n2Azwg&feature=related
Worst thing is that this is the 5 MPH test!

:)

I like how the car is painted "harbor freight" orange. That car probably came from the same factory my crappy orange socket wrench set came from...

[Tiger]

Geez! Steering up into your head and roof collapsing down your head... It will get you either way! No freaking way...

[bmwrp8]

dang! now let's do 120!

[leicesterboy15]

Whats the point of the airbag if the steering wheel its attached to is going to carry on moving and chew your face off anyway. I think an e34 would fair better than this, nowhere near as well as the modern cars but still better than these. I've been trying to find an e34 crash test for comparison but had no luck yet..

[bmwrp8]

Whats the point of the airbag if the steering wheel its attached to is going to carry on moving and chew your face off anyway. I think an e34 would fair better than this, nowhere near as well as the modern cars but still better than these. I've been trying to find an e34 crash test for comparison but had no luck yet..

yeah, same here i was looking for an e34 crashtest for the past month but no luck except for the e34 vs. volvo one that came from topgear i think... scarrrryyy

[mikell]

Crumple zones - they are supposed to be outside the passenger box. I guess the Chinese engineers were just a foot or two off.