MPV models, in the past has always been a symbol of commercial vehicles, and the most excellent classic model is the Buick GL8, it can be said that as long as you talk about MPV models can not avoid GL8, it has also become the benchmark of many MPV models. People who have ridden the GL8 will certainly have a good impression of this car, because it is not only very comfortable seats, but also large in size, coupled with excellent configuration and materials, people subconsciously feel that this big car must also be relatively safe.
But as we all know, sometimes impressions are just impressions, and they don't represent the whole of this car. No, in the crash test of Baoyan in the middle of this month, the test results of the Buick GL8 were not as good as expected.
The test score is at the bottom
The test is buick GL8 ES Luzun edition, priced at more than 300,000 yuan, but from the overall performance, in the seven models tested, GL8 performance is obviously the worst, it has obtained 1P+2A+1G results.
Of the four indices, the worst is undoubtedly crashworthiness and maintenance economy, which only gets the P index. As can be seen from the video of the test, it has obvious deformation in the collision of the low-speed structure at the front end of the 15km/h and the low-speed structure at the back of the 15km/h rear. Of course, this index is mainly linked to maintenance, and the P index obtained by the Buick GL8 also reflects that the maintenance cost of this car will be higher.
In the safety of occupants in the car and the safety of pedestrians outside the car, it got the A index. In terms of occupant safety, including four test items of frontal 25% bias collision, side impact, roof strength, and seat/headrest, Buick GL8 has achieved good, good, excellent and excellent results respectively. Although it is much better than the previous A-pillar bending situation, the GL8 still needs to continue to improve in terms of safety if it is compared with the "excellent" results of most models.
It is worth mentioning that the Buick GL8 has obtained a G index in vehicle auxiliary safety, which means that its safety configuration is still in place. However, since the model tested this time is not low-end, the result of this is not surprising, after all, if you take a low-end model to test, this result may be discounted.
It is recognized that the safety is "poor", why has the sales been excellent?
In fact, the Buick GL8's poor crash score is also recognized. Remember that in the US IIHS safety test, the bias collision and whipping test results of the US version of GL8 have been evaluated as unsafe. In the later domestic China Insurance Research Institute test, Buick GL8 once again staged the "unqualified" standard, that is, the A column was broken and the deformation was serious.
Although GL8 is not ideal in the collision results, but still did not affect its hot sales in China, according to the statistics of sales, GL8 monthly sales can basically reach tens of thousands, compared to the back of the little brother that is very beautiful.
In the final analysis, it is still because of this level of this price of the car it is no opponent, although the A pillar of the people is not hard, fuel consumption is still high, but its space is large, good comfort is also an indisputable fact. And buy this car mostly belongs to just need, or family travel, or business reception, especially in the business of this piece, with GL8 travel has almost become the standard, you take other models to pick up and drop off then there are some "out of place", so so many years of word of mouth is not in vain to cultivate, after all, when it comes to commercial vehicles, who can not think of GL8 at once?
In addition, a big man like GL8 is also relative in terms of safety, such as if you let a large truck hit a car with better safety performance, the result should be known that the car will be forced to absorb the strong potential energy of the big truck, so that it hits itself more tragically, and GL8 is almost the same reason, because the laws of physics always can't escape it. However, this is not to find a remedy for GL8, after all, our travel is mainly based on safety, and GL8 should go back and reflect on it after passing this collision.
Editor's note
As a benchmark for domestic commercial vehicles, Buick GL8 does have many defects in safety performance, although it is not a car known for safety, paying more attention to comfort, and mainly on business trips or pick-up and drop-off VIPs, but it is necessary to know that "tens of millions of roads, safety first", if there is a major accident in the face of unable to guarantee our safety, it is undoubtedly still very fatal.
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