Ute accident in Townsville
The security forces of the accident in Australia hit out at Chinese automaker Great Wall to offer less protection for the occupants.
ANCAP tested Great Wall V200 ute and found safety couldn t offered by correspondence rivals five stars.
But the test also highlighted an important gap in the ANCAP crash test regime.
The ute scored 6 points 07 16 on impact before he tested.
By comparison, Ford Ranger ute five star scored 15 72 in the same test.
The Great Wall scored 0 07 4 0 and 4 for the protection of the lower legs and chest areas where some competitors have received a perfect score.
The security forces said the passengers compartment Chinese ute lost structural integrity in the frontal offset collision test and the steering and dashboard organs could have injured occupants.
A 25990 in New Zealand for the movement of vehicles in diesel, all-wheel drive form, the V200 is about a lot cheaper than most competitors.
But ANCAP chair Lauchlan McIntosh says cheap imported utes can not be bothered.
Price is of course one of the key factors in deciding which car to buy, but what we shouldn t compromise on safety There is no reason for light commercial vehicles should be constructed to standards less stringent than passenger cars.
However, the Great Wall was awarded three stars by ANCAP satisfactory policy that large vehicles a hypothetical perfect score in the side impact test without analyzing the performance of a vehicle.
The ANCAP crash report to the Great Wall ute said experience shows that large vehicles such as the V200 can be expected to perform well in this test ANCAP adopted an allocation policy for these types of vehicles a default score 16 points out of 16.
The Great Wall ute has no side airbags or curtains to protect occupants in a side impact.
A lack of safety devices coupled to a worrying loss of integrity of the body in a frontal crash test suggests that ute may have received a score below three stars if really tested.
Great Wall ute another of the V240, received a similar benefit in 2010 after having scored 2 36 of 16 in its frontal-impact test and a hypothetical 16 of 16 in a side impact.
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