Storming Europe - Chinese First in the Starting-Blocks

Apart from the shape of the headlights, the F1 openly
monkey Toyota Aygo. So much for originality!

BYD and Brilliance seems the best placed to tackle the European market manufacturers. Although their models leave impressions for less unequal.

For the moment, not a single car made in China has officially put his tires on the French roads. Among the brands that will eventually reach us, there BYD (for "Build Your Dreams", "build your dreams" in English) and Brilliance, both present at the last Geneva Motor Show.

Crash Test Brilliance BS4 - No Sparks or Stars

The ADAC tested the Brilliance BS4 under the new
protocol EuroNCAP. She gets 0 star in part because
of the lack of active safety equipment

The German automobile club ADAC tested the Chinese Brilliance BS4 in the new EuroNCAP protocol in force since February. The conclusion is clear: the level of passive safety, the big sedan lags behind.

Chinese automakers line failures during crash tests. Brilliance BS4 family, which will be marketed in summer 2009 in Germany and is expected to arrive later in France, is not a queen of this kind of exercise, even if with the old protocol, it would awarded three stars, a rating level that a Dacia Logan.