Chinese sedan crumples like paper during crash test

[Blue_Tires]

http://www.leftlanenews.com/chinese-sedan-flunks-german-crash-test-with-video.html

video at the link...

brave new world coming--in less than five years, the streets in the USA will be filled with these cars

as if that wasn't enough, Chinese tires are not up to snuff, either
http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/25/as-if-poisoned-pet-food-wasnt-enough-chinese-tires-now-failing/

[Gold Metal Flake]

1. We'll just have to stop testing then.

I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords.

[kath]

7. Yep - it's the MadCowDisease Solution - if you don't do any testing, then

the problem doesn't exist!

[Richardo]

8. .

:shrug: --> :rofl: or :cry:

[Blue_Tires]

10. lol

i'm also interested how the car got a one-star (!) crash rating...if that's ONE STAR, what is zero stars?

[Gold Metal Flake]

11. This, perhaps?

:shrug:


:-)

[Tyo]

2. Weren't Japanese cars the same back in the '60s?

Didn't take them long to get it right though, did it? American car companies can't even dominate their own home market and instead of trying do something about we're pointing fingers and denigrating Chinese crap in the same way that a decade ago we were pointing fingers and denigrating Korean crap and generation ago we were pointing fingers and denigrating Japanese crap. We don't learn very fast, do we?

[Gold Metal Flake]

3. Were they?

Link?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. no we dont. history goes round and round in lovely little circles.

[InternalDialogue]

4. Chinese sedan spews cloud of noxious melamine from tailpipe.

What harm could possibly come from this?

[Gold Metal Flake]

9. How much lead is in the paint?

Would be interesting to do some contaminant testing on the various parts. What vapours are outgassed by the plastics and foams? What chemicals are in the anti-freeze or brake fluid? What is in the steel, got a geiger counter handy?

[XemaSab]

6. Man, if you want to be a safer driver on the road

go and look at crash tests of your own car. :scared: