Good find...All this from the China Edition.....Not the European Version as you put it? Which has current delays. Maybe they wont NCAP test it, maybe they will to prove a point no?
The plastic containers you eat your lunch from can cause cancer too. So is the dust from an old Jaguar that hasnt had the AC filters changed
SLK was great with the 4 cyclinder shut off. Wanted the 55 at some point. Great big V8 not without issues.
The point was only the Chinese seem to worry about Formaldehyde. Which reminds me of the stories of Chinese sofas causing burns and rashes. In China they are pumped full of formaldehyde to kill off mould, and wrapped. But not enough time is allowed at the other end to offgas. The bagged sofas went from warehouse to end user, all bagged up.
Chinese NCAP loosely similar to Euro NCAP, but much slower frontal impact speeds.
AC filters? You mean the pollen filters.
In China, "new car smell" is unpopular because of the high levels of formaldehyde offgassing from plastic parts inside Chinese car interiors.
It turns out the sweet, leathery smell that American consumers crave in their new cars is provoking winces among China’s emerging motoring class.
www.bloomberg.com