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Will there be a big difference if the same model is produced in different joint venture factories? In particular, the structural safety that consumers do not understand can often reflect the attitude of manufacturers towards consumers. Today, the C-IASI China Insurance Automobile Safety Index announced the results of the 25% offset collision on the front of the Dongfeng Honda INSPIRE. Compared with the sister model Guangzhou Automobile Honda Accord, the A-pillar shape of the INSPIRE is significantly larger than that of the Accord.

The Chongqing Test and Evaluation Department of the China Insurance Automobile Safety Index Management Center successfully completed the 25% offset crash test of the Honda DHW7152CVCSF (INSPIRE 2019 TURBO elegant version) produced by Dongfeng Honda Motor Co., Ltd. in accordance with the C-IASI Management measures (2018 version), officials said. Dongfeng Honda factory technicians tracked and watched the preparation of this test and the collision test.

From the results, the collision collapse of Dongfeng Honda INSPIRE extended to the passenger cabin, resulting in the collision invasion of the space on the driver's side and obvious deformation and bending of the A-pillar.

The evaluation items of the frontal 25% offset collision include vehicle structure, dummy injury and restraint system and dummy movement. The deformation and bending in the process of A-column collision will lead to the loss of points in the upper part of the occupant cabin in the vehicle structure, thus affecting the evaluation results.

As a reference, Guangzhou Automobile Honda Accord completed the crash test at the end of 2018, A-column compression capacity is significantly better than INSPIRE, side reflects the difference between the two joint ventures to produce the same model.

However, Honda also has a serious problem. Accord and INSPIRE do not have front / rear head protection airbags on the lowest models, so they are prone to excessive lateral head displacement in the event of a collision, which has already lost points.

Throughout the China Insurance Automobile Safety Index so far evaluated a number of B-class cars, the front 25% offset collision Dongfeng Honda INSPIRE crew cabin protection results are not very satisfactory. Teana, Camry and Asian Dragon are structurally intact, and the shape variables of INSPIRE are basically on a par with Maiteng and Sima, or even more serious.

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In fact, there is a difference between INSPIRE and Accord, which often reminds us of the Civic model produced by Dongfeng Honda. The Civic is not only deformed, but also directly broken under the B-pillar in the side collision, which is hard for many consumers to imagine.

Many netizens said that both Civic and INSPIRE had "accidents" and had expressed concern about Dongfeng Honda manufacturers. Dongfeng Honda sold slightly more cars than Guangzhou Auto Honda, with a cumulative sales of 642146 vehicles from January to October 2019, up 23.3% from a year earlier. Although the sales of the protagonist INSPIRE model are far lower than that of Accord, sales of the model also tend to be good after the replacement, with 44980 vehicles sold in the first 10 months.

When manufacturers pursue profits, will there be differences in standards, or what consumers call Jerry-building behavior? In the face of the fact of the collision result, few manufacturers will come forward to explain and give consumers an explanation.

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