Hi everybody. Greetings from Colombia.
I have a luxury 2013 Tunland, DC, 4x4, near 20.000 km and I am satisfied with it. I have known people with more than 60.000 km on theirs, used as work tool (it’s not my case) on bad trails and mountain roads, and also satisfied. This is the best value on the market here. I got the same power and a little bit more of torque paying almost a half of the price of the Hilux. A large, comfortable cabin, larger than the Ford/Mazda BT-50, Nissan Frontier, Chevrolet (Isuzu) Dmax, and more power and torque than those brands for the models we had here at the time. And it’s frugal.
The Tunland only get three stars in the Ancap tests, but several aspect were not assessed: pole, and whiplash and pedestrian protection. Why? I couldn’t find the reason. It’s true that there are some security issues but the Tunland is not worse than the cars you drove a few years ago and that, maybe, are still on the roads. And the Tunland is much better than many models those prestigious “established” brands continue selling here and in many other countries, for exemple, cars without airbags!, as several Chevrolet, Fiat, Hyundai, Nissan, Renault, Suzuki, and cars that couldn’t get a single star on the LatinNcap tests! (Only in 2017 it will be forbidden to sell cars without airbags here). Take a look, you don’t have to understand Spanish, only click on the brand and look for the presence or absence of stars:
http://www.latinncap.com/es/resultados
I don’t know the results of the Tunland in Australia. It seems the first importer was a bad representative. I hope the new one is better because it’s essential for the success of a brand. You may have a resounding failure with any brand (Rolls or whatever you want) with a bad dealer.
About car makers, I could say: “Australian cars, does it exist?” only because I don’t know any single one, which doesn’t mean that they don’t exist or that they’re bad.
About the crash image, why didn’t you show the brand on it? It’s
clearly not a Tunland. Didn’t you act in a bad faith?
http://www.ancap.com.au/safety-ratings/foton/tunland/691e18