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A video of the quality of a Pentium X40 airdrop was circulated on the Internet today, in which a FAW Pentium X40 with the words "straight to the peak of cloud quality" can be seen thrown from the helicopter.

The X40 being tested was slowly hoisted by a helicopter and then skimmed over the test site at a low altitude. At this time, it could be seen that the X40 model was lifted from the ground at a height of about 2m to 2.5m, and then dropped at a speed of about 60KM per hour. The tested vehicle rolled about three times and then stopped rolling and taxiing in the position of the cab. The whole test lasted about 4 seconds. After landing, it is observed that the vehicle under test is only the main driving position of the body, the deformation of the windshield on one side of the B-pillar. The degree of deformation of the whole car body is the same as that of rollover accidents.

In the vertical drop test on the other side, it was also the X40, which fell vertically to the ground at a height of about 3 meters, and the vehicle rolled over during the landing. After landing, the wheel suspension of the walking part of the vehicle chassis is damaged, the hood of the front is deformed and the windshield is sunken, and the vehicle can open the door normally after landing.

For such a test, we looked spectacular and straightforward, but we found some details. The height of the dynamic "airdrop" test and vertical "airdrop" test were not airdropped from a height of at least 5 meters above the ground (about the height of a two-story building) or at a speed faster than 60KM.

In the CNCAP test, the model is the network celebrity version 1.6L manual luxury model, the front 100% collision link is relatively simple in the collision test project, the collision speed per hour is 50km/h, the in-car test situation is worth paying attention to. First of all, the main driver's legs have collision contact with the car body parts, and the seat belt is not bound in the process of the collision. In the video screenshot, we can see that the forward tilting posture of the dummy in the back row has been shifted far away. The seat belts in the back row also do not produce any restrictions. In addition, the co-driver glove box pops up during the collision, which poses a potential risk of secondary injury to the occupants in the car.

In the side impact test, the mass of the collision vehicle is 1.4 tons in the moving collision test. From the video, we can see that the side door of the X40 model is completely deformed after the impact test. And none of the airbags were opened during the test.

In the front 40% offset experiment, the collision speed is 64km. There is no obvious deformation of the A column and no deformation of the door. The safety of the occupants in the car. From the screenshot of the test, the front and rear dummies have a certain degree of displacement during the collision. in addition, the front passenger's legs touch the vehicle's central console, and the co-driver's glove box is opened during the collision, posing a safety threat to the occupants' legs. The head of the dummy in the back row rebounded in the collision with a whipping impact.

Compared with the manufacturers using the "airdrop" method for testing, we pay more attention to the impact test that is appropriate to the actual use, and we seem to see more of the publicity effect of the Pentium X40 in the airdrop test than the real simulated accident test of the vehicle.

The X40 sold 3432 vehicles in April and 10800 from January to April. There is also a reason for the poor sales of the X40. A lot of problems about the quality of the model can be found on the forum, such as gearbox noise, brake noise, car body rust and so on. Individual car owners even have the problem that the door cannot be closed, and the customer service handles the feedback with poor attitude. A live airdrop is very attractive to the topic, on the other hand, depending on the quality of the product itself, it is sometimes more persuasive to use the existing collision system to illustrate the problem.

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