Chinese rival to the Buick Regal in China - The Brilliance Zhonghua.

[Kowalski]

Check it out: http://www.zhonghuacar.com/english/index.htm

In August 2002, ZhongHua Passenger car was officially put into the market as a fully proprietary medium-high grade passenger car car. Its coming into being and trading on the market indicated CBA, the intellectual right proprietor, had entered into a fresh market sector and become an important participant on Chinese automobile market.
In 1997, CBA financed itself $500,000,000 for conducting extensive, capital-linked, global cooperation, thus by integrating global human and technical renovation, successfully developed ZhongHua Passenger car---a premium-quality passenger car adaptive to Chinese particularities and possessing internationally first-grade shape and performance. On Dec 16th, 2000, ZhongHua Passenger car was formally off-line in Shenyang, China.

ZhongHua Passenger car was listed on the bulletin promulgated on May 28th , 2002 by State Economic & Trading Committee concerning Batch16 automakers and automobile products licensed.

ZhongHua Passenger car was designed by Mr. Giugiaro, a worldwide top design master, with the complete car performance tested and approved by MIRA Corp, an international authentification authority in Great Britain; key processing equipment, inclusive of pressing, weldment, painting, and general assembly devices, supplied by such worldwide well-known automotive equipment manufacturers as Schuler, Kuka, Durr and Schenck; parts and auxiliary equipment designed by globally famous automobile factories as committed, and purchased globally in order to guarantee quality parts supply.

MIRA, as an international well-known third party testing and certification center, had fulfilled 68 testing items with ZhongHua Passenger car from1999 to 2001 in MIRA Corp, including but not limited to engine suspension comparison test, complete vehicle performance evaluation test, collision test, body seal test, driving comfortableness test, bare body torsion test and bending rigidity test.

The climatic test with ZhongHua Passenger car was conducted in China under MIRA’s assistance, during which 19 testing items relevant was carried out on a journey accumulatively as long as 100,000 kilometer in mileage, inclusive of stretches in Heilongjiang province of 45℃ below zero; on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, 4,800 m in height above sea level; and in Hainan island, 38℃ in temperature, and with high humidity. Besides, ZhongHua Passenger car has successfully passed 34 compulsory tests as required by the State and its type approval test as well, for verification of ZhongHua Passenger car’s premium performance and reliability.

Most parts in ZhongHua Passenger car come from “a family of prestige”, among which key assemblies like brake system, steering system, and suspension system were developed and designed respectively by TRW, ZF, and LEMFORDER, Germany. In order to guarantee parts quality， a variety of tests concerned were performed , inclusive of aging test, vibration test, salt spray test, and 150,000 kilometer of road test with the complete vehicle, for validation of parts life.

Brilliance Zhonghua













More Pictures: http://act1.auto.sohu.com/auto/picli...e=%D6%D0%BB%AA

Not too Bad Looking for a Chinese car.

[SonicAerio]

Looks like a woo in front and Lexus in Back

[bakerna]

I was gonna say that it looked kinda like a daewoo, which isn't entirely a bad thing, I find them attractive

[RWD60]

the front needs some work IMO, but that's a nice car... if these sorts of things get sent to the US for cheap (Korean type pricing), and with decent quality, someone (GM, Toyota or Hyundai, or all of the above) is gonna suffer.

[jro4566]

Not bad, especially for a Chinese car. Heck, it's better than the crap Chery is putting out now...

But when all's said, the interior looks cheap, and so does the ripoff of my old 2001 Suzuki XL-7's Clarion head unit...

[RedVee8]

Looks a bit like a Rover to me.

[SonicAerio]

Originally Posted by RCtennis3811

But when all's said, the interior looks cheap, and so does the ripoff of my old 2001 Suzuki XL-7's Clarion head unit...

LOL....that's true it's the same one also found in the 2002 model Aerio, lucily they gor rid of the ugly, aged h/u.