Stupid Rich Chinese Drivers

More Chinese car jokes, but this time it has to do with their owners.

A Chinese businessman who crashed his luxury car, endorsed by a Chinese Olympic athlete Liu Xiang and injured his nose is planning to sue the Olympic hurdler.

BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - A Chinese businessman wants to sue Olympic hurdler Liu Xiang because he was injured while driving a luxury car endorsed by the world champion.

Yuan Jiguang told Jiangxi Province's New Legal Report newspaper that he had bought the car because of an advert featuring former Olympic champion Liu, and so he held the high hurdler responsible for the accident.
The 43-year-old said he had been involved in a collision with a truck, banging his nose on the windshield when the car's air bags failed to activate and ending up with a doctor's bill of 989.89 yuan ($144.8).

"Liu's advert had a great influence on my choice of car," he told the paper. "I want to send a warning message to all the celebrities that they can not only focus on the payment and neglect their social responsibility and public trust." Read more here.

If the news report is correct, you can almost bet Yuan injured his nose because he wasn't wearing a seat belt in the first place. The airbags did not failed to activate. It was designed NOT to activate under such conditions. If it had, Yuan's head would have been blown stuck to the headrest. Moron.

The news article did not mention the brand of the luxury car, but it is believed to be a Cadillac. Caddies, along with Audis are among the two best selling luxury marques in China.


Mr. Yuan is not the first moron driver to hit the news. A couple of years ago some retard by the name of Mr. Wang started the ball rolling when he tailgated his W221 Mercedes S-class at the back of a Dongfeng truck before ploughing to the rear end of the truck. He claimed that his vehicle's airbags did not activate, looking at the pictures it easy to understand why. Airbag G-force sensors are located at the front bumper, not at the A-pillars. Wang's S-class crashed into the back of a truck with a huge empty space below the bed, hitting the S-class A-pillars rather than the front impact absorbing crumple zones. China does not yet have any regulation requiring minimum ride height / protection bars to be installed around a heavy vehicle's trailer. In many countries, this is mandatory to avoid smaller vehicles / motorcyclists from "submarining" below in a collision.


Wang demanded compensation from Daimler, towed his wrecked Mercedes to the banks of Yellow River and hosted a press conference, saying that he will only buy Chinese made goods from now on. Good for him.

I guess he will be taking delivery of a Brilliance BS6 (below).



For the benefit of those illiterate and can't read the vehicle's owner's manual - for safety reasons airbags will not inflate if a vehicle is in a rollover, hit from the rear, hit a huge pothole / dropped, occupant's seat belt is not worn, child seat is detected (certain models), crash is below a certain speed. You do not want your vehicle's airbags to deploy unless it is really necessary (i.e. you are really about to die). The repair bills will be massive, involving replacement of not only the steering wheel but the entire dashboard. Also, gases used to ignite airbags are harmful and in certain cases, they may cause burns / skin irritations, and not forgetting effects of the loud explosion on your ear. Airbags are deployed by means of "controlled explosion." Why do these moron driver complain when things don't blow up in front of their face? Didn't these morons ever thought about the meaning of Supplemental Restraint System in SRS airbags mean? They are meant to work together with a seat belt!

I know the saying within the industry, laugh at Chinese cars at your own peril. But these third world country drivers need to be slower to speak and quicker to listen and not make a fool of themselves and their country.