Lowered parameters of Chinese crash tests

Thu, 01/11/2007 - 21:21 — Joanna Kujawska

When establishing the own ChinaNCAP organization, Chinese declared bringing international standards in crash tests. Lately one of the Chinese portals has published the comparative test of such crash tests, resisted on the example of Hyundai Accent, which was put through the identical tests in China by local C-NCAP and in the USA by IIHS (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety). The European EuroNCAP organization has not tested the new Accent yet.

The most important test is a crash with deformable, vertical barrier located on the driver’s sight and moved by 40% from the vehicle’s symmetry axis (offset). These are the conditions of typical collision, in which two cars are coming from opposite directions. The model tested by American IIHS organization was equipped ith 1,6l engine and weight 1,150 kg, travelling with 64 km/h hit the barrier with 182,02 kJ. Just to compare – the same model, but with smaller engine 1,4L and weight 1,130 kg, travelling with lower speed of 56 km/h hit the barrier with 136,93 kJ. The speed lower by 12.5% caused the energy reduction by 25%.

Parameters of side impact deviated from standards. The standard test is a crash of movable barrier (weight 1,500 kg) hitting the car with the speed of 50 km/h (145 kJ of energy). In C-NCAP crash tests, the platform hits the car with the same speed, but its weight is 950 kg (91,78 kJ of energy), which is only 63% of preferable value. The pictures definitely show, that there are differences in tests’ parameters and their effects.

Source: hc360.com
Source: pcauto.com.cn
Source: ChinaNCAP

Will Great Wall Motor invest in Lublin?

Wed, 05/16/2012 - 16:27 — Michał Hadyś

The news about potential investment of Great Wall Motor was revealed by Dziennik Wschodni, which relying on the direct information from the local government. According to newspaper, GWM considers assembly passenger car and commercial vehicles in the former Daewoo’s factory. Representatives of Chinese company visited Poland with the Prime Minister of China in late April. Is there any chance to implement a new project?

BYD Auto and announce of the new bestseller

Tue, 05/15/2012 - 20:50 — Michał Hadyś

BYD unveiled two new exciting models – the "F3 Plus" and the Dual Mode "Qin" at 2012 Beijing International Auto Show. This year's Auto show theme was "Innovate and Excel" and BYD did both displaying 3 new break-through technologies in their new vehicles. The BYD Qin is an intelligent, next-generation, highly-efficient dual-mode electric vehicle that uses BYD's new, innovative Dual Mode II system with improvements over the first generation's F3DM system.

Polish traders afraid of Chinese pickups?

Mon, 03/19/2012 - 17:56 — Michał Hadyś

Polish traders are not interesting of Chinese pickups. This conclusion stems from fast dropping prices of the model ZX Auto Grandtiger produced in 2011. Dealers which has decided distributing of the car compete together who give the lowest price. Grandtiger, which normally costs less then 17,000 EUR* (without taxes) for the best version with two airbags, air conditioning and metallic color, currently is offered for 13,350 EUR*. It is very competitive price, because is equipped with Hyundai’s 2.5l (170 hp) diesel engine and three year warranty.

40 Chinese car were registered in Poland in 2011

Mon, 01/30/2012 - 18:07 — Michał Hadyś

The registration data provided by IBRM Samar show, that only 40 Chinese cars were registered in Poland in 2011. Although this result isn’t impressive, it is more twice than in 2010, when the number of registrations was 19. For comparison, a Samar reported 13 units of models „made in China” in 2009, so Polish market is growing up.

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Foton Tunland enters to Poland

Sun, 01/15/2012 - 20:37 — Michał Hadyś

Beiqi Foton will debut on the Polish market later this year. One of the biggest Chinese producer of commercial vehicles is building sales network. Although we don’t know the official Foton’s offer, we can suppose that only new cars with European homologation and Euro 5 norm can appear on the Polish streets. Foton has only one model which meets our expectations. It is a newest pickup named Foton Tunland (code P201).

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