Chris, If people wish to import this monster, it's their business.
I assume that few people will wish to considering its obvious faults. But, this is nothing to do with free trade. It's simply the politicians of the EU whining at each other. Harry ******************************** Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 818 352-4141 ******************************** -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Reuss Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 2:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] Free Trade Can Kill You EU Trade Scandal around Chinese "Killer SUV" Due to a legal loop-hole, the extremely unsafe Chinese SUV can be imported to Germany. Due to EU Free Trade laws, all EU countries must allow this SUV to be imported via Germany, even if their safety standards are not met by this SUV. (Btw, isn't "Landwind" a most suitable name for a SUV after Katrina and Wilma?) http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/oth er_news/&article id=253399 Chinese SUV's 'catastrophic' crash-test results Berlin, Germany 11 October 2005 02:36 A Chinese SUV, the Landwind built by Jiangling Motors, on Tuesday received some of the worst ratings to date in crash tests carried out be Germany's influential ADAC automobile club. The results, reported in the latest issue of the ADAC's monthly Motorwelt magazine, termed the ยค15 000 ($18 000) vehicle's crash results as "catastrophic". In a frontal crash test the Landwind delivered the worst result to date in the history of ADAC crash testing. Crashed against a barrier at a modest 64km per hour, the Landwind's entire frame collapsed and stunned engineers had to "amputate" part of the crash dummy's legs to remove it from the wreckage, the report said. A separate side impact crash, which is usually easy to withstand by heavy SUVs, showed that the Landwind's designers "hardly wasted any thoughts on modern security standards", said the ADAC. With no side airbags nor even padding, the dummy's head suffered what would have been serious injuries, said the report. Summing up its findings, the ADAC said: "The Landwind is as dangerous as a tornado. It has safety standards which are decades out of date." - Sapa-DPA ======== About the Free Trade loop-hole (in German): "A loop-hole in Europe" http://www.gmx.net/de/themen/motor/technik/aktuell/1511172,c c=00000015910001 5111721v7OF5.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
