SCMP: Is the Chinese military’s off-road sport utility vehicle the toughest on the planet?
* PLA’s boxy BJ80 SUV had seven times higher reliability test scores than the Mercedes-Benz that reportedly inspired the Chinese vehicle
* Vehicle’s test results are ‘almost a miracle’, researcher says
The People’s Liberation Army rates its Chinese military BJ80 SUV the “most reliable off-road vehicle in the world” after the boxy four-wheel drive model achieved test scores that were seven times higher than those of the Mercedes-Benz SUV on which it was reportedly modelled, according to an official document seen by the South China Morning Post.
“It is
an incredibly high score considering the ordeals it had to go through,” said Song Kai, an associate researcher specialising in automobile structural fatigue at the College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering at Hunan University in central China.
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WNU Editor: No one should be surprised. China is now the worlds largest manufacturer of cars, and they are learning to build vehicles very quickly ....
.... China produced more than 29 million motor vehicles last year, equivalent to the number built by the United States, Japan, Germany and India combined, according to the Paris-based trade group Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d’Automobiles.
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WNU Editor: No one should be surprised. China is now the worlds largest manufacturer of cars, and they are learning to build vehicles very quickly ....
.... China produced more than 29 million motor vehicles last year, equivalent to the number built by the United States, Japan, Germany and India combined, according to the Paris-based trade group Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d’Automobiles.
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