Another deathtrap from our Chinese friends

Stephen

Saw this over on the CivInfo.com forums... Its the Chery Amulet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7rrk3ZjN-I

:eek:

Rowley Birkin QC

The words barge and pole come to mind. Frightening.

Atomic Pineapple

holy f**k :eek:

Max_Damage

I reckon my '90 Micra would fair better in a crash than that heap of scrap.

darkskol

:eek: shocking

crosstownk

Is it made from paper? That's useless. I'd have more of a chance in a go-kart!

maidhc

It looks like an old toledo?

...to answer my own question, so it is:
http://www.gminsidenews.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1140153&postcount=53

mike65

But its cheap as chips!

I wonder was the old Toledo as bad or is the engineering and metal gauge noticably worse?

Mike.

crosstownk

mike65 wrote:

But its cheap as chips!

And the same NCAP rating by the looks of things...............

OfflerCrocGod

Give them 15 years.

Guy:Incognito

Deathtraptastic,

junkyard

You get a free crash helmet though if you buy before the 31st of September.:) I think the Chinese are recycling our rubbish into these yokes and selling them back to us.

unkel

OfflerCrocGod wrote:

Give them 15 years.

To accomplish what?

junkyard

unkel wrote:

To accomplish what?

The next space shuttle I believe.:)

unkel

junkyard wrote:

the Chinese are recycling our rubbish into these yokes and selling them back to us.

Trying to sell. They haven't been successful over here (EU) and I doubt they will in all but the distant future but the appealing market must surely be the US one?

mike65

That car is sold in Russia so safety not an issue!

Mike.

impr0v

Is that an official test, i.e. NCAP speeds or whatever? To play devil's advocate, it's hard to judge on an unbranded test clip like the above - perhaps it was done at 100 kph or something, with the engine bay emptied...

Or perhaps it is a biscuit tin suicide shuttle.

mike65

Parse and analyse

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118651314364590719.html

Mike.

Volvoboy

Know how fast that was?



-VB-

bazz26

Yeah it looks like a cloned MkI Seat Toledo. That Toledo was introduced in 1991 and was based on the MkII VW Golf. So your looking at a car copied on a 23 year old design. :eek:

Rhonda9000

From Wikipedia:

An amulet (from Latin amuletum; earliest extant use in Natural History [Pliny], meaning "an object that protects a person from trouble".

Nice try

unkel

Good find, Mike!

@Rhonda9000 - perhaps wearing a Chery Amulet all around you, it will protect you from ever being in a crash?

Terrontress

It's no big deal, so long as you don't intend to crash.

joseph brand

Who has ever intended to crash??

These guys are gonners. No hope whatsoever. Actual Dummies.

http://www.motorpasion.com/2006/03/29-coches-chinos-de-competicion

colm_mcm

It's a Seat Toledo. If they NCAP'd a MK2 Golf, A Citroen ZX or a Fiat Tempra, it'd come out the same. Many manufacturers build cars that would fail NCAP tests. VW are still building the Samba minibus, Toyota are still building the late 80's Corolla in Africa.

peasant

The Chinese have a knack though for making their copies even worse then the original.

The "Landwind" was one example. The old Isuzu it was based on was never a NCAP performer, but the Landwind just crumbled.

colm_mcm

The Izuzu MU wasn't exactly safe either. Some perspective is needed here. These cars are very cheap and not on sale here. Many people here are driving cars that are just as "unsafe" as these Chinese cars.

maidhc

colm_mcm wrote:

The Izuzu MU wasn't exactly safe either. Some perspective is needed here. These cars are very cheap and not on sale here. Many people here are driving cars that are just as "unsafe" as these Chinese cars.

Indeed.

unkel

colm_mcm wrote:

These cars are very cheap and not on sale here

The only reason they're not for sale here is these safety tests. The Landwind was actually for sale with a EU distribution system in place, but it was withdrawn after the infamous ADAC test

But I see where you're coming from. Millions of people in the developing world would love to own one of these cars, even if it had minus 5 safety stars

alias no.9

colm_mcm wrote:

The Izuzu MU wasn't exactly safe either.

That can't be right , it's a jeep, it must be big and strong and safe to bring the little darlings to school :rolleyes:.

G Luxel

colm_mcm wrote:

Toyota are still building the late 80's Corolla in Africa.

Is this model known as the Tazz? If so, production stopped since 2006 but I suppose there are probably some unregistered models left on garage forecourts throughout South Africa.

Our man in Havana

mike65 wrote:

That car is sold in Russia so safety not an issue!

Mike.

Your joking right. There are some deathtraps on the roads in Russia.