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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/27/09

    In reply to Chinese-Built Brilliance BS4 Scores Zero Stars In Euro Crash Test
    Well, it could be worse. The car could be carrying Chinese drywall.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    03/26/09

    In reply to Chinese-Built Brilliance BS4 Scores Zero Stars In Euro Crash Test
    They buy anymore debt and our government will be forcing us to buy these cars. (shivers)
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    Image of Ford Tempo Fanatic Ford Tempo Fanatic
    03/26/09

    In reply to Chinese-Built Brilliance BS4 Scores Zero Stars In Euro Crash Test
    That actually looks safer then my car's side impact crash test video.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/26/09

    @Ford Tempo Fanatic: I'd like to see that. Does the Tempo become L-shaped?


    Huh. Now show it to me from the side.


    Oh. Yeah. I'll keep my 240.


    "Whatev'."

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    Image of Ford Tempo Fanatic Ford Tempo Fanatic
    03/27/09

    @FurtiveParsnip: Ah, but Tempo has an ace up its sleeve! Seven words:


    Motorized power front passenger shoulder belt restraints.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/26/09

    In reply to Chinese-Built Brilliance BS4 Scores Zero Stars In Euro Crash Test
    Folks, this is still better than a late-'90s J-body.
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    Image of Tomsk sez so long Ash78, and thanks for all the fish! Tomsk sez so long Ash78, and thanks for all the fish!
    03/26/09

    In reply to Chinese-Built Brilliance BS4 Scores Zero Stars In Euro Crash Test
    Meh, I think your survival chances would be even lower if you chewed on it.
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    Image of toyotadiesel toyotadiesel
    03/26/09

    In reply to Chinese-Built Brilliance BS4 Scores Zero Stars In Euro Crash Test
    Jalopnik:


    Win: Proving the failure of the Chinese Automakers


    Fail: Providing a video that was all in German

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    Image of Tomsk sez so long Ash78, and thanks for all the fish! Tomsk sez so long Ash78, and thanks for all the fish!
    03/26/09

    @toyotadiesel: How dare you belittle the official language of precision!
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    03/26/09

    In reply to Chinese-Built Brilliance BS4 Scores Zero Stars In Euro Crash Test
    Honestly, if it drove well, the crash test results are good enough that I would drive it. Fortunately, I'm sure the driving dynamics are such that I will never have to make good on that claim.


    But with very little passenger compartment infiltration, and apparently good energy dissipation, if it meant that my car would be 500+ pounds lighter than a 5-star rated equivalent, I'll take the zero. Well, this zero. I won't get into a BS6, with the folding door option.

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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    03/26/09

    In reply to Chinese-Built Brilliance BS4 Scores Zero Stars In Euro Crash Test
    dear god, was that the standard 35 mph impact?
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    Image of Cognitive Friction Cognitive Friction
    03/26/09

    In reply to Chinese-Built Brilliance BS4 Scores Zero Stars In Euro Crash Test
    Someone please edit accordion sound effects into that video at 1:19
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    03/26/09

    In reply to Chinese-Built Brilliance BS4 Scores Zero Stars In Euro Crash Test
    Brilliance is just an arm of the Chinese government's population control bureau.


    Now, with the capitalist movement going on in the Chinese economy, the government decided to try to sell the BS4 and the BS6 abroad. Unfortunately, since they are communists, they forgot that in free(er) markets, the people will decide if they want to buy a product based, among other things, on safety.


    F*cking free markets, always messing up our Chinese sh*t.

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    Image of mr_dude mr_dude
    03/26/09

    @f*cking engineerd: And yet so many Pintos and Fieros were sold here...
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    03/27/09

    @mr_dude hates this f*cking meme: Thanks Nader.
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    Image of wrx-tyrannosaurusWrx wrx-tyrannosaurusWrx
    03/26/09

    In reply to Chinese-Built Brilliance BS4 Scores Zero Stars In Euro Crash Test
    I can understand why people are hesitant to drive Hyundais: even though they're awesome now (at least the two Genesis...es are) they were crap when they entered the US market.


    Some things can't change initial perception though.


    I could never see anyone driving a Brilliance in America. Not even in a hundred years, after GM has disappeared and Toyota has finally monopolized the manufacturing and production of vanilla extract, long after buying out Maytag.

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    Image of ReubenJiblical ReubenJiblical
    03/26/09

    In reply to Chinese-Built Brilliance BS4 Scores Zero Stars In Euro Crash Test
    Am I seeing that right, did the passenger airbag shatter the windshield?
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    Image of mzs mzs
    03/27/09

    @ReubenJiblical: It is not uncommon for the front passenger air bag to do that. I have seen numerous cars in junk yards where that was obvious. In fact I saw it was the case for two first gen Kia minivans.
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    Image of GreenN_Gold GreenN_Gold
    03/27/09

    @mzs: Perhaps it is common, but I worked at a Pontiac dealer during college, and a customer determined that an airbag in her Sunfire broke the windshield rather than the accident itself, which resulted in a lawsuit.
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    03/27/09

    @GreenN_Gold: So its the manufacturer's fault is the car hurts itself in order to save you?


    And why would anyone sue anyone for any reason involving a sunfire? Was she pissed b/c her insurance didn't total it?

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    Image of Jo Schmo Jo Schmo
    03/26/09

    In reply to Chinese-Built Brilliance BS4 Scores Zero Stars In Euro Crash Test
    Well if the Brilliance would start commenting it might at least have a shot at 1 star.
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    Image of .357 .357
    03/26/09

    In reply to Chinese-Built Brilliance BS4 Scores Zero Stars In Euro Crash Test
    Countries like China and India have a very large population. The government probably doesn't try to regulate car saftey, because they figure that if you lose a couple people, then you are helping control the population. Sad but true.
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    Image of mr_dude mr_dude
    03/26/09

    @.357: Nah cause the ones that own cars are the creme de la creme. When I was over there 95% of the cars on the road were taxis/buses.
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    Image of .357 .357
    03/26/09

    @mr_dude:Well even the taxis in America have to be safe. Not the case in many other countries.
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    Image of Cognitive Friction Cognitive Friction
    03/26/09

    In reply to Chinese-Built Brilliance BS4 Scores Zero Stars In Euro Crash Test
    Huh. I would've thought all those coats of lead paint would've done more for the structural integrity.
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