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For Wuling Hongguang MINIEV, I believe everyone is familiar with this model. Wuling Hongguang MINIEV was officially launched at Chengdu Auto Show in 2020, and then it was quickly sought after by consumers, surpassing Tesla for many months and becoming the top seller of new energy vehicles.

However, this model is also controversial in the early days of the market, although this model is produced by SAIC GM Wuling, but its appearance and price are at the same level as the "old man music" sold on the market, so it is also called "old man music" by many netizens. As we all know,"old man music" is extremely common in third-tier and fourth-tier cities, and has always been a loophole in national policy supervision, because most of the car buyers of this type of car are elderly people, and the existence of miniature electric vehicles without driver's licenses and licenses is in a "gray zone," which also gives rise to many safety problems.

In contrast, Hongguang MINIEV and the market in the sale of "three no products old man music" or not the same, but limited by the cost, starting price of 28,800 yuan 2020 models are not equipped with airbags, resulting in its safety has been concerned, although the latest launch of 2021 models have been equipped with airbags, but the price went to 37,600 yuan. Therefore, if you want to be cheap and safe, Hongguang MINIEV is still difficult to satisfy.

On May 25, ByteDance (Byte)'s auto media platform "Understanding Car Emperor" released the collision test video of Hongguang MINIEV collision old man. Although both models are miniature electric vehicles, the two cars still adopt the 50% offset collision standard of 64km/h. That is to say, Hongguang MINIEV and Old Man Le both collided head-on at a speed of 64km/h and an overlap rate of 50%(driver side), and then evaluated according to the deformation degree of the vehicle body and dummy injury data.

At the moment of impact, glass fragments shattered on the ground. After the crash test was completed, it could be seen that the unknown old man had basically been "deflated", just like a can was squashed, the door could not be opened, and the dummy inside the car was smashed into pieces. In other words, once this old man's music collides with the vehicle, there is basically no room for survival in the car.

Let's take a look at Hongguang MINIEV, which is better than the old man's music, but the "eating face" is also very ugly. Disassembling, Hongguang MINIEV passenger compartment is relatively complete, A-pillar has no obvious bending, battery pack is not damaged, but from the details, vehicle firewall collapse area deformation is serious, longitudinal beam participated in collision but energy absorption is not enough, no effective collapse, A-pillar has three plastic hinges, passenger compartment has certain intrusion, threshold deformation, floor folds for many times, pedal deformation area is also more.

On the whole, Hongguang MINIEV's performance is better than the old man's music, but also reached the limit, if it collides with a mainstream model in the market, the result can be imagined. If in this collision, Hongguang MINEV will use the old man as an energy absorption box, then if there is a collision in reality, other models will also use Hongguang MINIEV as an energy absorption box. However, the passive safety performance of Hongguang MINIEV is mainly limited by cost. At this price point of Hongguang MINIEV, there is really no other brand on the market that can do better.

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