Martin Motors company, being responsible for distributing Chinese Brand Shuanghuan in Italy, is going to launch in March the next Asian brand – Lifan. The company has been operating on the local market since 1992 and is now the biggest privately-owned motorcycles producer in China. The first car – Lifan 520 – was introduced just in 2006.

The Italian company wants to sell 520 model, which is now offered in two body versions, as 4-d sedan (4,370 mm long) and 5-d hatchback, signed as 520i (4,040 mm long). Cars will be offered with a modern 1.6 Tritec engine (116 bhp, 149 Nm), which let the car to achieve 185 km/h of maximum speed, with acceleration to 100 km/h in 10.5 s. The car’s asset will be the possibility to order version with LPG, and CNG in future as well. Similar as it is in most of Chinese cars, the car has rich standard comfort equipment, such as full electricity, air conditioning or DVD player, but really poor safety one – only ABS with EBD and 2 airbags.

Lifan 520 met „E mark” requirements last year already, which means, that it can be legally sold in the EU countries. Chongqing Lifan Group accents, that all car’s components, such as lights, tires, windows, horn or seats fulfill requirements of European official certification. In Netherlands, optional equipment is tested as well (audio, alarm, sunroof, kit, navigation).

The car passed the crash test in Russia, which considered European official certification procedures ECE-R 94. The Chinese sedan appeared enough safe for front seats passengers after 40% offset. Airbags worked well and protected dummies’ damages. Passengers’ compartment kept its shape, and experts did not observed any leaks in fuel system. Crash tests with ECE-R 94 standard are conducted with 56 km/h speed, which is 8 km/h less according to trials conducted by European association ADAC and EuroNCAP.

In January Lifan introduced the ambitious plan to deliver the best services on local market, offering new customers 5 year warranty or 100,000 km and alternatively 4 years or 120,000 km.

Source: Martin Motors
Source: Autochiny.pl

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