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PICC Research Institute of Automotive Technology Co., Ltd. (referred to as "Zhongbao Research") is led by the China Insurance Industry Association in March 2015, jointly funded by eight property insurance companies and Jingyou Century Co., Ltd. shares in the original "Beijing PICC Research Institute of Automotive Technology", is a company with automobile safety performance, repairable performance, maintenance accessories and man-hour standard research as the main business limited company. From the above information, it can be seen that China Insurance Research represents the interests of insurance companies, not manufacturers, so China Insurance Research is particularly strict in collision testing.

Recently, the China Insurance Research Institute released a summary of car collision results, and the performance of all kinds of models is reflected incisively and vividly in this table. However, PICC Research also sparked a heated discussion among netizens because of this form, with netizens saying, "is the PICC Research Institute recharged by the Japanese system?"

It is not surprising that netizens have such questions, according to the collision results released by Baoyan, the results are sorted from excellent to poor, with four Japanese models in the top five, FAW Toyota Yize and Guangzhou Automobile Toyota Leiling ranked first and second respectively, FAW Toyota Asian Dragon and Guangzhou Automobile Toyota Camry ranked fourth and fifth respectively, while Volvo XC60, which is famous for its safety, ranked third.

From the perspective of these four Japanese models, they are rated G (excellent) in front offset, side impact roof strength, seat headrest, auxiliary safety and pedestrian protection, only in terms of collision maintenance.

Volvo XC60, which has been linked to safety, only ranked third this time, and many netizens did not like it. Volvo XC60's safety is well known, but Japanese cars always give people a sense of "papery". This is also the reason why netizens suspect that Zhongbao Research advertises Japanese cars.

However, by comparison, we can see that the difference between Yize, Leiling and Volvo XC60 is only in crashworthiness and maintenance economy. Yize and Leiling are rated as A (good) and M (general) respectively, while Volvo XC60 is rated as P (poor). This is because China Insurance Research represents the interests of insurance companies, insurance companies need to understand the maintenance costs of each car after the collision, so as to establish the relevant charging standards, which is a responsible performance for consumers and insurance companies.

The reason why Volvo XC60 does not rank first is not that its safety is worse than that of Yize and Lei Ling, but because XC60 uses high-end environmentally friendly materials, resulting in higher maintenance costs than these two models.

In addition, by comparing the test results of IIHS models in the United States, we can see that the performance of these Japanese models is really excellent and ranked very high.

At present, in addition to C-IASI, there is also C-NCAP in China, and netizens have given it a good-sounding name-"five-Star Wholesale Department". The reason for this name is that many models have received a five-star rating under the test of C-NCAP.

However, both IIHS and C-NCAP in the United States are tested on new cars that have just launched, while C-IASI is different. the models tested are those that have been sold in the past two years, so C-IASI has tested far fewer models than the "five-Star Wholesale Department" in the past year.

Compared with the evaluation criteria of CmurNCAP and Cmuri IASI, several five-star models were miserable under the collision of China Baoyan.

The most typical is Dongfeng scenery AX7. The 2015 Dongfeng scenery AX7 has done all the collision tests in C-NCAP, while the 2019 Dongfeng scenery AX7 only got two "M average" and two "P worse" in C-IASI.

As more and more third-party evaluation institutions enter the Chinese market, consumers also have certain reference standards for buying cars, but they also have different opinions on the test results. After all, the test is only regarded as a reference value. Whether it is to give Japanese brands a high score, or Passat biased collision after the A-pillar bending, China Insurance Research is also a matter of fact, after all, you can not hit yourself in the foot! As for the test results, whether you believe it or not is also a personal matter, and you can't generalize it.

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