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Chinese Brilliance cars fail crash tests; Zero starts - zero.
Topic Started: Mar 27 2009, 07:12 PM (279 Views)
Mikhailoh
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Tatas and Brilliance and death, oh my!

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Back in 2007, Chinese automaker Brilliance made international news when its BS6 sedan failed crash tests performed by the ADAC (Germany's version of our AAA) in fantastic (and frightening) fashion. The crash tests were performed according to Euro NCAP guidelines at the time, and the mangled heap of metal that remained was truly horrific.

Brilliance is back with the BS4 sedan, and again the ADAC has performed its full battery of crash tests, though this time using newer Euro NCAP guidelines that take into account the availability of electronic stability control as standard equipment and potential damage to pedestrians. How'd it do? Just like the Brilliance before it, the BS4 scored zero stars.

It's not all bad news, though. Under the old Euro NCAP guidelines, the BS4 would have achieved three stars, a score that the BS6 needed two tries and a structural redesign to match. Even watching video of the BS6 crash test compared to video of the BS4, it's apparent that Brilliance has learned a thing or two about how to keep car from folding up like an according during a frontal impact. Still, it wasn't enough to score a single point in the new tests, which means Brilliance once again needs to go back, makes some changes and try again.

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TomK
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Mikhailoh
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I hear Buicks are very popular there.

I wrapped a 71 Mercury Comet around the right front of a mid 50's Roadmaster like that once. Bent the little Merc clean in half and didn't even break the headlight on the Buick.
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George K
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Finally
That's why they called it the Road MASTER!

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Mikhailoh
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:lol2:
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Kincaid
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HOLY CARP!!!
I'm sure anyone that crashes a Brilliance BS6 would wish it had zero starts.
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Red Rice
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Chinese-made cars may be an insidious method of population control.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

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jon-nyc
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Human life is cheap in China, cars are expensive.

Of course don't count these guys or Tata out. This is a typical disruptive technology in the Christensen/HBS sense. People laugh at its inadequacies when it first comes out, but eventually it improves and takes over.


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Piano*Dad
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Sort of like the Yugo! :whome:

I think I'm gonna get a BMW or something.

China and India ultimately may become major players in the auto market. In fact, I would be shocked if they didn't, especially of mass produced and largely homogeneous entry-level cars. They still have some way to go in learning all the complexities of the product.

Another thing to consider; achieving dominance in their home market is not necessarily going to translate into global reach. The home market in India and China will be for very cheap transportation, and this likely will persist for many years. Finer details of engineering, like the safety issues on display here, may be of secondary importance. Ditto for finer details of comfort design and road handling. Like pianos, the market for autos is highly differentiated. Mastery of one area (entry level) does not automatically translate into a comparative advantage at all price points.
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Piano*Dad
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Sort of like the Yugo! :whome:

I think I'm gonna get a BMW or something.

China and India ultimately may become major players in the auto market. In fact, I would be shocked if they didn't, especially of mass produced and largely homogeneous entry-level cars. They still have some way to go in learning all the complexities of the product.

Another thing to consider; achieving dominance in their home market is not necessarily going to translate into global reach. The home market in India and China will be for very cheap transportation, and this likely will persist for many years. Finer details of engineering, like the safety issues on display here, may be of secondary importance. Ditto for finer details of comfort design and road handling. Like pianos, the market for autos is highly differentiated. Mastery of one area (entry level) does not automatically translate into a comparative advantage at all price points.
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Piano*Dad
Mar 28 2009, 06:52 AM
Sort of like the Yugo! :whome:

I think I'm gonna get a BMW or something.

China and India ultimately may become major players in the auto market. In fact, I would be shocked if they didn't, especially of mass produced and largely homogeneous entry-level cars. They still have some way to go in learning all the complexities of the product.

Another thing to consider; achieving dominance in their home market is not necessarily going to translate into global reach. The home market in India and China will be for very cheap transportation, and this likely will persist for many years. Finer details of engineering, like the safety issues on display here, may be of secondary importance. Ditto for finer details of comfort design and road handling. Like pianos, the market for autos is highly differentiated. Mastery of one area (entry level) does not automatically translate into a comparative advantage at all price points.
I don't have any doubts at all.

You can go down to your friendly John Deere or Massey-Ferguson dealer on Monday, and he will have Indian-made tractors sitting on his lot. Now, tractors and heavy machinery don't have the nuances of fit and finish autos do, but they are a start.

In ten years, or so, they'll own the bottom of the global market...
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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Yeah... The Japanese started out with these funny little min-bikes. I remember my buddy and I sitting in my driveway, laughing over the owner's manual for this little Honda Trail 50 that I had. "Connect Earth wire most not slip." :lol2: Those little whackmobiles...

But you know what? That bike ran and ran and ran and ran and ran. I had it for years, rode it for years, never put a drop of oil in it. I put gas in it and rode it like a filthy sow. It was still running after four straight years, by the time I left for the Army.
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