Chinese language carmaker fails to duplicate Vary Rover Sport’s Tianmen Mountain feat

Chery Vehicle’s try to climb the “Heaven’s Staircase” at Tianmen Mountain in China has led to failure.

The Chinese language automaker was attempting to duplicate what the Vary Rover Sport achieved in 2018 by driving its Fengyun X3L SUV up the 999 steps. Nevertheless, the automobile couldn’t make it to the highest, inflicting a whole lot of embarrassment within the course of.

A video shared by the World Occasions exhibits the X3L trying to scale the steps. At one level, the SUV begins to roll again, inflicting vital injury to the construction.

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Chery Vehicle has apologized after the crash at Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie, China.

The corporate is promising to pay for an entire restore of the… pic.twitter.com/5Ew38cC9lK

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 13, 2025

The corporate, in an official assertion, stated {that a} steel shackle on the security rope’s anchor level indifferent unexpectedly, inflicting the rope to wrap across the car’s proper rear wheel, which obstructed energy transmission and led to the slide.

Chinese language automaker Chery Vehicle apologized for an incident involving a check at Tianmen Mountain Scenic Space in Zhangjiajie, Central China’s Hunan Province, throughout which a car slid down the steps and broke a part of the guardrail whereas climbing the “Heavenly Stairs.” The… pic.twitter.com/cvwcwMdMb0

— World Occasions (@globaltimesnews) November 13, 2025

“We sincerely apologise to the general public and Tianmen Mountain Scenic Space for the injury induced,” Chery stated. “The end result has uncovered our inadequate evaluation of potential dangers and lapses intimately management throughout the planning and execution of this check. Specifically, we deeply replicate on the general public considerations brought on by selecting to conduct the check in a public scenic space,” the assertion added.