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As you may know I do a certain amount of car crash analysis, and a colleague in the USA has just circulated the results of NCAP (New Car Assessment Program) testing on the Chinese Landwind, which is currently on sale in Holland for around =A310k, and apparently coming to the UK soon.
The official results are not out yet, but it has supposely made history by scoring no stars at all with the driver dead in the benchmark 40mph offset deformable crash shown below.
I've put the images and movie files on a web server, see:
Base vehicle http://www.tpc.nildram.co.uk/orig.jpg
Movie #1: http://www.tpc.nildram.co.uk/run1.wmv (1.4MB)
Movie #2: http://www.tpc.nildram.co.uk/run2.wmv (1.9MB)
Afterwards: http://www.tpc.nildram.co.uk/crash.jpg
For those interested in such things the driver was probably "killed" by the steering wheel getting him in the neck (I don't have the details), and the distortion of the dash and passenger space is totally unacceptable in a modern vehicle.
For comparison if you were in a vehicle scoring 5 stars in this test you would be able to open the driver's door and, probably, be OK enough to climb out of it.
If you want to read more type "landwind + NCAP" into Google.
Christopher Bell
Devon, UK
1996 1HD-FT
As you may know I do a certain amount of car crash analysis, and a colleague in the USA has just circulated the results of NCAP (New Car Assessment Program) testing on the Chinese Landwind, which is currently on sale in Holland for around =A310k, and apparently coming to the UK soon.
The official results are not out yet, but it has supposely made history by scoring no stars at all with the driver dead in the benchmark 40mph offset deformable crash shown below.
I've put the images and movie files on a web server, see:
Base vehicle http://www.tpc.nildram.co.uk/orig.jpg
Movie #1: http://www.tpc.nildram.co.uk/run1.wmv (1.4MB)
Movie #2: http://www.tpc.nildram.co.uk/run2.wmv (1.9MB)
Afterwards: http://www.tpc.nildram.co.uk/crash.jpg
For those interested in such things the driver was probably "killed" by the steering wheel getting him in the neck (I don't have the details), and the distortion of the dash and passenger space is totally unacceptable in a modern vehicle.
For comparison if you were in a vehicle scoring 5 stars in this test you would be able to open the driver's door and, probably, be OK enough to climb out of it.
If you want to read more type "landwind + NCAP" into Google.
Christopher Bell
Devon, UK
1996 1HD-FT