The Chery A15 (), also known as Cowin, Flagcloud or Amulet, is a subcompact car produced by the Chinese manufacturer

Chery Chery Automobile Co. Ltd., trading as Chery and sometimes known by the pinyin transcription of its Chinese name, ''Qirui'' (), is a Chinese state-owned automobile manufacturer headquartered in Wuhu, Anhui, China. Founded in 1997, it is curr ...

from 2003 to 2010. A facelifted variant was called the Cowin 2 and was sold from 2010 to 2016.

Overview

It is based on a restyling of the

Chery A11 The Chery A11 (), also known as Fulwin, Fengyun or Windcloud, is Chery's first car. Created without government approval, it has nonetheless been the first step of Chery's success story and helped transform the Chinese automotive market from one de ...

(also known as the Fengyun, or Windcloud), itself based on the first generation of the

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, which was built on the Volkswagen Group A2 platform. This is the same platform as is used in the second generation

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. The vehicle also has a fuel-efficient, low-emission engine. It has been marketed in South America and in European countries such as Ukraine and Russia. It was launched in August 2003, as a successor to the Fengyun (Windcloud), and has been exported to more than 30 countries in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. In 2010, it was locally assembled and went on sale in Russia as the Vortex Corda in 2012.

Safety

It has several safety features, including anti-lock brakes and electronic brakeforce distribution. However, the Russian car magazine

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reported that an A15 it had crashed in accordance with the

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test standard performed even worse than the 1-starred Brilliance BS6 sedan and that the dummy used had to be dismantled into pieces in order to be removed. Consequently,

called for the car to be withdrawn from the market. File:Chery A168.jpg, Chery A168 rear view File:Chery Cowin 2 01 China 2012-04-15.jpg, Chery Cowin 2 File:Chery Cowin 2 02 China 2012-04-15.jpg, Chery Cowin 2 rear File:Chery Cowin 2 facelift 01 China 2012-04-22.jpg, Chery Cowin 2 facelift File:Chery Cowin 2 facelift 02 China 2012-04-22.jpg, Chery Cowin 2 facelift rear

References

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