On August 12th, during the pre-sale event of the all-new Tank 500, Wei Jianjun, Chairman of Great Wall Motors, was asked by car owners on site how they viewed the collision of the Ideal i8 with the Dragon Racing truck. Regarding this, Wei Jianjun smiled and said, 'You insist that I offend someone,' without directly responding. Subsequently, the on-site car owners asked, "When will Great Wall Motors be on the scene (colliding with a large truck)?" Wei Jianjun directly replied, "Our car dare not go.
As previously reported, a video of the first pure electric SUV, the Ideal i8, colliding with a heavy-duty truck at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour was played during the launch event of the new Ideal car on July 29th. The video shows that after a frontal collision, the four wheels of the heavy truck bounced up and the truck cab tilted, while the A-pillar, B-pillar, C-pillar, and door beam of the Ideal i8 remained unchanged.
The test caused a lot of controversy on the Internet. When the video was first released, because the steering wheel of the crashed heavy truck model was not coded, netizens found that the truck brand was CLTruck. With the escalating public opinion, on the evening of August 6th, Ideal Automobile, China Automotive Research Institute, and Chenglong Truck successively issued a joint statement on the Ideal i8 collision test related incident, finally putting an end to this matter.
