Brilliance BS4 Splendor. Car review.

By Mark Andrews

Auto Express. 09/01/2008

Brilliance is back… but has one of China’s biggest car makers got any better?

After our initial meeting with Brilliance, we weren’t looking forward to repeating the experience. But the BS4 Splendor is better than the BS6 – although not by enough. There are signs that the firm is making efforts to improve safety, but in every single area the BS4 falls behind its European counter­parts. About the only redeeming feature is its price. Even then, there’s a major stumbling block for UK buyers – bosses have yet to confirm when it will start making right-hand-drive models.

Let’s hope so. Auto Express drove the firm’s first European model, the BS6 executive saloon, once before – and it struggled to impress.

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Mark Andrews has written about everything from Japanese houses to heli hikes on New Zealand glaciers, test drives of Chinese cars to bar and restaurant reviews. He currently specialises in travel articles and reviews of Chinese cars plus articles about the Chinese auto industry.

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