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Safety tests show the GWM Steed is a deathtrap when it comes to collisions, but that’s par for the course on our roads

03 December 2020 - 21:16 By tom eaton

Recent safety tests reveal that the GWM Steed pickup truck, sold in SA, “disintegrates” in a head-on collision at just 64km/h. This will be very surprising news to Steed owners, who hadn’t realised that their vehicles could reach such speeds, and had assumed most disintegration would happen long before impact. ..

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