Italy: Martin Motors to import Lifan

The Italian company wants to sell 520 model, which is now offered in two body versions, as 4-d sedan (4,370 mm long) and 5-d hatchback, signed as 520i (4,040 mm long). Cars will be offered with a modern 1.6 Tritec engine (116 bhp, 149 Nm), which let the car to achieve 185 km/h of maximum speed, with acceleration to 100 km/h in 10.5 s. The car’s asset will be the possibility to order version with LPG, and CNG in future as well. Similar as it is in most of Chinese cars, the car has rich standard comfort equipment, such as full electricity, air conditioning or DVD player, but really poor safety one ? only ABS with EBD and 2 airbags.