![]() ![]() Get ready for a shock, because the price is darn close to a Camry's, too. At 192.1 inches long, the BS6 is about the size of a Toyota Camry. Our guess is that the job was finished before the morning espresso had gone cold. That's because the BS6 is the poster child for anonymous styling-finding it in the airport lot would have taken us ages despite the fact that the BS6's lines were penned in the studios of Italdesign-Giugiaro. The smaller BS4 sedan and BC3 coupe arrive later this year a compact car, dubbed the BS2, and an SUV are in the works, part of a plan to meet an annual sales target of 75,000 cars in Europe by 2010.Īnonymous Applies to the Styling as well as the Driving, but not the PriceĪrriving early in the morning at Berlin-Schönefeld airport, we were fortunately met by an HSO representative. Why Berlin? Because Brilliance is the first Chinese manufacturer to take a serious stab at Western auto markets, and distributor HSO Motors Europe has chosen Germany to start its European distribution of the BS6. To put the car through its paces, we hit a hectic mix of city streets, country roads, and arrow-straight autobahns in and near Berlin, Germany. Our test drive would not be in some Brilliance-built Bimmer, but in the company's own BS6 sedan (known as the Zhonghua in China). If the name Brilliance rings a bell, it's probably because the company has been licensed by BMW to build and sell 3- and 5-series sedans for the Chinese market since late 2003. The opportunity came courtesy of Brilliance Auto, a car manufacturer based in the northeastern Chinese town of Shenyang. But we wanted to see how a Chinese car fares on real roads-and we wanted to know right now. The catch is that no one, not even the Chinese car manufacturers themselves, can provide a clear answer as to when and how.
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