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The safety of vehicles made in China came into question again after the J11 SUV Chery was ranked two stars out of five by the organization of independent local ANCAP crash tests.
It is a second successive crash test result bad for the Chinese brand after his car J1 city, the cheapest car in Australia with 11,990 driveaway, reached only three star Australasian New Car Assessment Program in May.
The result of the J11, which is also 17,990 driveaway, the most affordable SUV Australia comes just a week after J11s 1664 were recalled due to insufficient protection against side impact accident.
The side impact test J11 was delayed by the recall, but said the ANCAP result wouldn t have improved the vehicle's rating.
As part of ANCAP rating system, the poor result in the frontal test-center limits the Chery J11 to a two-star rating maximum whatever the outcome of the side impact test, said ANCAP Chair Lauchlan McIntosh Due the risk of delays resulting from the recall campaign, he was in the interest of consumers that publishes this ANCAP result 2 stars.
The J11 scored only 2 of 16 points in the offset crash test, with ANCAP reports that the passenger lost structural integrity and there was excessive protection of movement of the pedal severe chest, legs and foot injury was low for the driver.
ANCAP also gave zero stars J11 for pedestrian protection.
Australian distributor of Chery, Ateco, said the result was unexpected.
It is fair to say that we are both surprised and disappointed by the result, said spokesman Daniel Cotterill Australia Chery We thought the D11 would be better than that in the test.
Our policy is to have one of the top engineers at Chery all ANCAP tests and was also present at J11 test They can see the standard required for that country.
Work is already underway to improve the D11 in terms of security.
The latest vehicle to join Chery Australian line-up, the new small car that J3 is on sale last month, has not been tested crash.
ANCAP has released the results for two other vehicles this week, both new variant of the Cruze sedan and the maximum for both Hyundai i40 rating, five stars Holden scores.
New blow CRASHTEST for Chinese cars, Chinese side impact test.