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The Jiangling Motors
Jiangling Motors
The Jiangling Motors Corporation Limited , abbreviated JMC, is a Chinese automobile manufacturer that is also known by the Landwind brand name in a number of markets...

Landwind or JMC Landwind is a Chinese

China

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-built SUV. It is also sold in some Europe

Europe

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an markets, being the first Chinese vehicle that has ever been exported to Europe. The first 200 European market Landwinds reached the Belgian

Belgium

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port of Antwerp on July 4, 2005.

Like some Chinese-made cars, the JMC Landwind is widely derived from older imported technology and design, in this case the Isuzu Rodeo which was sold from 1998 to 2004.

The European market Landwinds are available with two Mitsubishi

Mitsubishi

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-built gasoline

Gasoline

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-powered engines and one Isuzu

Isuzu

, is a Japanese car, commercial vehicle and heavy truck manufacturing company, headquartered in Tokyo. In 2005, Isuzu became the world's largest manufacturer of medium to heavy duty trucks. It has assembly and manufacturing plants in the Japanese city of Fujisawa, as well as in the prefectures...

-built diesel engine

Diesel engine

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2.0 L - 115 hp (84 kW)
2.4 L - 125 hp (92 kW)
2.8 L diesel - 92 hp (68 kW)

In China the SUV is sold under the name of Baowei, and it is also available as a pickup truck

Pickup truck

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called the Baodian.

Controversy

The Landwind has attracted a controversy after a series of safety tests. The car made headlines after German car club ADAC

ADAC

The ADAC is Germany's and Europe's largest automobile club, with more than 17 million members in June 2010. It was founded on May 24, 1903 as "Deutsche Motorradfahrer-Vereinigung" and was renamed in 1911...

showed in its crash test, carried out for EuroNCAP

EuroNCAP

The European New Car Assessment Programme is a European car safety performance assessment programme based in Brussels and founded in 1997 by the Transport Research Laboratory for the UK Department for Transport and backed by several European governments.-History and activities:Euro NCAP is a...

, that a driver of this vehicle would not survive a head-on collision at 64 km/h (40 MPH).

The Dutch importer of the Landwind called for a test by German safety monitoring agency TÜV

Technischer Überwachungsverein

TÜVs are German organizations that work to validate the safety of products of all kinds to protect humans and the environment against hazards. As independent consultants, they examine plants, motor vehicles, energy installations, devices and products TÜVs (short for Technischer...

to show that the car was in fact safe enough for European standards. These tests are similar to the EuroNCAP tests, but the collision speed is lower at 56 km/h (35 mph). Despite the worst crash results in decades TÜV subsequently confirmed that the Landwind met all mandatory safety criteria according to ECE R94.

The controversy did not end there. Opponents say the TÜV test is not enough to guarantee vehicle safety today. They claim that R94 is outdated and only guarantees that the driver will be alive after a crash, and that it does not take into account serious injuries such as severe crushing of the legs. R94 is also performed at a lower speed.

Ron Zwaans, general director of JMC Landwind Europe, says his company is working together with ADAC to keep improving the Landwind's safety. He claims his goal is to ultimately pass the more rigorous EuroNCAP testing.

Paris Motor Show 2006

At the Paris 2006 Motor Show, Landwind displayed an updated version of its SUV, now called the X-Pedition as well as an MPV called the Fashion/CV9 that would compete in the same size class with MPVs such as the Kia Carens

Kia Carens

The Kia Carens is a compact MPV launched in 1999 by the Korean manufacturer Kia and marketed worldwide under various nameplates, prominently as the Kia Rondo....

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