本帖最後由 huit 於 2010-12-4 09:46 AM 編輯
There is very little difference in crash safety between a modern Japanese car and an equivalent German car in the same class. In fact, Australian, French, British, Korean, Italian, American, it doesn't really matter long as the price range is similar, cars of the same class will score similar points - a new Kia Cee'd/Hyundai i20, a VW Golf, an Opel Astra, a Honda Civic, and a Corolla - they all get 5 stars based on the same tests, some will do better than others in specific areas (driver/passenger/side impact/pedestrian), some have more passive safety equipment, but there's no clear winner. The reality is billions of dollars are spent in new car development and no company would risk developing something inferior.
In fact the only nation that scores poorly remains China. Look up Landwind, but not sure about Russian cars. All you need to do is check on www.euroncap.com and do a comparison of cars of similar size and class
That said, suspension tuning still seems to be better on German cars - even if you compare average, affordable family cars such as the Opel Astra and a Toyota Corolla of a similar price, the Astra seems stiffer and the Corolla is mostly more comfortable on average speeds at average road conditions but when you push the car a little bit the Corolla wallows and floats - not a flaw, just designed and tuned for what the target buyer wants.
Things feel more "solid" in in interior, even on the cheapest VW (obviously not Chinese-made VW Santanas though) the doors close with a solid "thump", even the new Mazda3's can't match that solid "feel" of a Ford Focus (even though both car are based on the same platform, with different body and engines, the same goes for Ford Mondeo vs Mazda6) - even though the feeling is mostly engineered, in the 1980s Audi began to hire sound engineers to tune the sound the doors make when you close it to give you that feeling of solidity, I'm sure all major manufacturers do the same now. So it's all a bit "fake", but it feels good.
But having owned a German car for 2 years after 9 years of Japanese cars, it'll be very hard for me to go back to Japanese unless they could match that "feel". |
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