LIFAN 320: China's Mini?

[OTEP]

http://www.automagazined.com/2009/04...r-mini-cooper/

When you look behind the the Lifan 320, it reads “Innovation Lifan, Quality Lifan”. This 320 now comes with more innovative and poorly executed, ripoff of the MINI. This 320 is one of the clones made by China that filled the booths of various automakers at the Shanghai Show.

Lifan’s minicar will enter the market that pays an undesirable tribute to the new MINI’s design has been on sale in China. The 320 comes with a 1.3-liter gasoline engine producing a puny 80-horsepower and 110Nm of torque. The car’s top speed is to 155km/h or 96mph.

I saw the brochure at home (I think my father went to the Lifan display in our area). The local unit spec sheet states 65 horsepower and the radio is the 'built-in' variety with only AM/FM and AUX-IN (no CD/cassette). Brochure also states dual airbags, didn't see any mention of ABS.

No idea on price.

[Chikselog]

MINI-ng MINI nga..kaso may tatak




Made in China

[Newcomer123]

Kung presyong QQ yan, maraming bibili nyan

[p_borj]

nagpunta na Lifan sa amin sa unilab main. tiningnan ko ito, nagulat ako sa price dahil nasa 500k+ range ang price.

[meledson]

Looks nice. Iyon lang nga the question is "Quality ba?"

[foifoi05]

here's a repost from the lifan thread

http://iecauto.lifan.com/enauto/lifan320/indexa.asp
:happy

APPERANCE DESIGN
Three-color painted and exotic-color roof is the feature of LF320. The roof and body is designed as the form of horizontal parallelism, making LF320 pretty cute and embodying unconstrained personality of youth.

Air-inlet grille is designed as the form of cartoon plat beehive shaping a little smile which looks naughty but honest. The peanut-shaped front lamps are 45°cross-section designed.

The tail lamps are round upright designed concisely and generously. There are also lamps at the central bumper which have the function as fog and reversing lamps.

LF320 is designed as a compact car with five doors for the double purpose of practicability and fashion.

DIMENSION
The dimension is 3755*1624*1435mm and the minimum ground clearance is 135mm which makes good trafficability. In addition, the wheel base of 2340mm makes it have unparalleled room among its peers. Wide inner space makes your head and legs more comfortable.

INTERIOR TRIM
The dashboard is simple and pretty with dynamic and exquisiteness. The buttons and the components match well and reasonably for convenient and easy operation. The interior design shows the energetic and fashionable characteristics of the youth.

POWER DESIGN
Lifan's own manufactured engine LF479Q3 which has good power and fuel consumption performance is equipped on LF320. The constant-speed of fuel economy at 90km/h is only 4.8L and the maximum speed can reach 155km/h.

The drive type of LF320 is FF with five manual transmission. The displacement is 1.3L and output power is 65kw/6000rpm. In order to maintain the reliability and stability of the chassis, LF320 adopts independent suspension that front suspension is McPherson type with Stabilizer and rear is Lateral arm coil spring with stabilizer.

Dispositions like power steering, 3-point safety belt, double airbags, and ABS+EBD are the basic equipments of LF320 which show the top level of the class.
Annex: Specifications of LF320

[renzo_d10]

It has digital a digital speedometer but it has no CD/Cassete.

It indeed looks like a mini, from the rear angle. The front, needs a little refinement. The hoooodd is just too long.

Boxy vehicle, no ***y curves. Interior is fair enough.

This could be the right car for those China-car fanatics. But for me ? No thanks.

Here are the photos borrowed from bigbigcar.com. Hope sir carlocaraddict wont mind.







For more pictures and details, click HERE.

[eggman]

This car looks great kahit nasa 500K Pesos lang sya!

[renzo_d10]

^

Looks great.

But the real question is ...

Does it perform well ?

YKnow. People, including me is always doubtful about Chinese vehicles. ;)

[Newcomer123]

Ang QQ walang problemang bumenta sa 340-390K range. 1 liter engine lang, pero madaming kumagat.

1.3 na ito, kasinlapad halos ng swift na 1624mm pwede nang 450K yan