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chinese SUV gets a zero in crash test rating!
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10-16-2005, 03:33 PM
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| Rockford's Slow Junk  Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Rockford, IL
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 | chinese SUV gets a zero in crash test rating! The first Chinese car to be sold in Europe has scored zero, the worst-ever score in safety tests! link. http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/art...783784,00.html
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10-16-2005, 03:38 PM
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| wo zai zhuan wan piao yi  Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Aokigahara
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 | hmm i am lookin for a car for my gf... |
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10-16-2005, 03:41 PM
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| Registered User  Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Elgin
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| “This car seems to belong in the 1990s in terms of engineering,”  |
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10-16-2005, 04:08 PM
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| Wanna see my itinerary?  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Chicago
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| unlikely to survive a 40mph head on collision? Did anyone see the Top Gear where they had a stunt driver run into the side of another vehicle at 35mph driving nothing more than a stock Renault and he walked away just fine now thats damn good safety |
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10-16-2005, 04:30 PM
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| Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Southside
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| the logic is/was simple. there are 1.29 billion Chinese in the world... what's a few dead JiangLing-driving Chinamen? |
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10-16-2005, 05:07 PM
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| would that car even pass crash spec in the US? |
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10-16-2005, 05:24 PM
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| Senior Garbage Poster  Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Naperville, IL
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| lol |
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10-16-2005, 07:05 PM
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| got boost?  Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Aurora/Naperville, IL just off Rt. 59
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| that Chinese vehicle looks like an ancient Isuzu Rodeo/Honda Passport, which if I remember correctly didn't pass the IIHS crash tests either. |
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10-16-2005, 07:51 PM
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| kein Dummkopf  Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Chicagoland
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| good, fuck those chinese cars (no offense to our chinese-american members). from what i heard, they just copied all their stuff from gm cars and slapped it on a cart.
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10-16-2005, 07:55 PM
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| Tip Top Special !?!?!  Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: no where you want to be
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10-16-2005, 08:11 PM
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| Ich bin im Elend  Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: N. Aurora
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| Anyone notice that the car in the pic is a ford exploder(or at least looks an awful lot like it)? |
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10-16-2005, 08:21 PM
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| Damnit  Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: village hidden in the leaves
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 |  i wonder if its this same brand, saw this chinese brand car in shanghai
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10-16-2005, 09:07 PM
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| Senior Garbage Poster Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Naperville, IL
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| looks like a camry |
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10-16-2005, 09:25 PM
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| bitch, please  Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Dellsish
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| looks more like one of them volvos...how ironic...since like volvo is one of the safest cars ever made. yet the chinese ones are shit. |
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10-16-2005, 09:32 PM
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| I'm drawing a blank here  Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Elgin, IL
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| nice, i need to pick a few of those up to give to a few people   |
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10-16-2005, 09:53 PM
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| Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Southside
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| iirc, this car maker bought a korean SUV company and took underpinnings back for reproduction. so yah. BLAME THE KOREANS!@#$%@%  |
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10-16-2005, 10:06 PM
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| bitch, please Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Dellsish
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| they proly bought daewoo...haha...we have a daewoo microwave at work...that thing is fucking junk! it like cracks and pops and sparks all the time. |
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10-16-2005, 10:26 PM
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10-17-2005, 01:16 AM
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