Chinese 4x4 gets zero in safety test

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Bifa - 08 Oct 2005 01:54 GMT

Have you heard / seen anything of the Chinese 4x4 LandWind

It's got crash test results only slightly better than a cardboard cutout
Landcruiser.

http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22749-1783784,00.html

and the videos

http://www.adac.de/images/Front_seite_Landwind_DSL_tcm8-126485.rm

http://www.adac.de/images/Landwind_Frontcrash_DSL_tcm8-126473.rm

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Scotty - 08 Oct 2005 03:15 GMT

> Have you heard / seen anything of the Chinese 4x4 LandWind
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> http://www.adac.de/images/Landwind_Frontcrash_DSL_tcm8-126473.rm

Yeah but what speed was the vehicle travelling whenit hit?

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Bifa - 08 Oct 2005 05:03 GMT

>> Have you heard / seen anything of the Chinese 4x4 LandWind
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> Yeah but what speed was the vehicle travelling whenit hit?

Seems the head on test speed is 65km/h.

You can see a tranlation into English of the ADAC page here
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.adac.de/mitglieds
chaft_leistungen/motorwelt/m_archiv/Landwind.asp%3FComponentID%3D126458%26Source
PageID%3D20057%25230%26location%3D33&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dadac%2BLandwind%26num%3D
100%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26c2coff%3D1

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Barnsey - 15 Oct 2005 17:40 GMT

Its a plot to cull the population.

Same as in India. The allow people to sit on the roofs of trains, because
the tunnels are low.

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