Cheaper than a BS6, but not as safe?

more Chinese junk. it's the Dalai Lama's fault Chinese junk can't pass a crash test. if they manage to kill him, all Chinese cars will break the wall it crashes into and the paint will not even scratch.

I am afraid it will sell its number. Cheap 5-door hatch with better looks than the US Focus.

Do we REALLY want a zillion Chinese people in "safe" cars?

Am I the only one who sees a lot of Chevrolet/Daewoo Optra 5 influence?

@FLB: No.

I'd feel safer in a Corvair, rocketing toward a concrete wall, with no brakes and the steering shaft retainer bolts loosened.

Hey, it is BS!

Looks to me like they chopped the trunk off a new Sebring. Still not a good look.

FYI, the BS6's safety problems have already been rectified. The car was retested and received a passable 3 stars.

+ Watch video

Nothing like having a lot of BS on the roads....

Are those Communist Chinese Stars or regular ones??

If you can't dazzle them with your Brilliance, at least you can baffle them with your BS...

@Mike the Dog: China has very strict laws regarding "truth in advertising."

I think they also need to worry about lead paint poisoning.

The ad campaign should be, "We killed your dog with contaminated food, we poisoned your kids with lead paint on toys, but really you can trust the wellbeing of your family in our Brilliant automobile!"

How could you drive something called a Brilliance with a straight face. I would be laughing so hard the beer would come out my nose.

@OldeEnglishD: No BS!

@OldeEnglishD:
"...Let's take our Sunday family drive. Susie, Fido, will you two stop licking the car... Fido? Fido...!!! They killed Fido! You bastards!

Another day, another string of China bashing. Welcome to America, circa 2008.

@LionZoo:
It's expected that people bring in all sorts of unrelated negative things about China and put it together into a pot to create the ultimate anti-China stew. These are the same type of people who are going to rally for a boycott of the 2008 Olympics without much idea of what they are rallying for except with the instinctive idea that anything related to China is bad.

Considering they went from unacceptable to 3 stars in 79 days, I think with some more work they can get up to 4 or 5 stars, esp if they are going into a market where they can afford to add more safety features and still make a profit.

That "new car smell" in the Brilliance is a unique combination of air bourn fecal matter, murdered Tibetans, mercury, and lead. Brilliant, simply Brilliant!

LionZoo=representative of Beijing Olympic Committee.

@ranwhenparked: The video says "Optimised in 65 points." When I was in school, a 65 was barely passing.

The front impact does look, well, barely passing. The side hit still seems scary.

I think anyone who trumpets their three star crash test rating should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. What an abysmal engineering feat.

@LionZoo: Circa is suing you for trademark infringement.

Please try and understand this.

The psyche of the general chinese population has only one thing in common with the rest of the world, get rich or die trying.

This logic is only possible to comprehend when you are surrounded by a few billion people.

Any chinese person with a conscience in china will ultimately die poor without any offspring.

I don't know how else to explain it, at whatever income level you are born, it will remain that way for your children, unless you eliminate your competition. The only way you will have children is if you have more money than the family of the woman you want to have children with. The only way to have more money than the family of the woman you want to have children with is to eliminate your competition.

Am I making myself clear?

Trillionaires point and laugh at Billionaires and below.

Billionaires point and laugh at Millionaires and below.

Millionaires point and laugh at everyone below them.

Everyone below them will do anything to become them.

i think china's actions in tibet is a reflection of the government and not the people. they are slaves working in slave labor conditions. the lying marxist dictators abuse and lie about it as they have always done. yeah, the dalai lama is calling for suicide bombings. please. have we forgotten the cultural revolution? our way or bullet to the brain. smile and say thank you for putting the gun against my head and caring enough to re educate me. may i have another? enough apologizing for the communist dictatorship and their bullshit bubble gum cars. would you puts your kids in it? if it was good, i would not buy it anyway.