![]() 07/30/2014 at 12:48 • Filed to: crash test | ![]() | ![]() |
![]() 07/30/2014 at 12:50 |
|
small overlaps are a bitch. I've never seen a car come out of one and look okay.
![]() 07/30/2014 at 12:51 |
|
It could have been potentially worse, if this car had enough horsepower to get up to speed.
![]() 07/30/2014 at 12:53 |
|
Later that day on craigslist...
"Salvage title from minor fender bender, no frame damage"
![]() 07/30/2014 at 12:54 |
|
I loled.
![]() 07/30/2014 at 12:56 |
|
The point isn't exactly to look OK, it's more about leaving the occupants unharmed. I'd rather have my car crumble into nothing and me survive uninjured than be critically or even lethally injured with my car mostly unharmed.
![]() 07/30/2014 at 12:57 |
|
To be fair, asides from the door buckling it looks like the crash structure did it's job. The intrusion stopped at the firewall, and it doesn't look like the footwell was breached.
![]() 07/30/2014 at 12:57 |
|
SERIOUS INQUIRES ONLY, NO JOY RIDES.
![]() 07/30/2014 at 12:57 |
|
Do you know what rating they gave this?
![]() 07/30/2014 at 12:57 |
|
acceptable
![]() 07/30/2014 at 13:00 |
|
![]() 07/30/2014 at 13:01 |
|
That actually seems right. The crash structure remained pretty well intact but the head slipped off the front airbag.
![]() 07/30/2014 at 13:03 |
|
This is the exact argument I make when people refer to old school cars surviving accidents with very little damage due to them being "all steel!", what good is the car if you're paralyzed because it can't transfer any collision force.
![]() 07/30/2014 at 13:05 |
|
CALL ME AT FIVE O S3V3N 4HR33 F0UR 0N3 316HT F!V# N!N# %1X
![]() 07/30/2014 at 13:11 |
|
Some cars slide off the barrier more than others. This one seem to have just stopped hard. Maybe high G force readings along with the head slip
![]() 07/30/2014 at 13:12 |
|
Yeah, you're right. I didn't notice that until you pointed it out.
![]() 07/30/2014 at 13:16 |
|
http://www.iihs.org/iihs/ratings/v…
![]() 07/30/2014 at 13:22 |
|
yup yup, especially Volvos. They just skip past the wall
![]() 07/30/2014 at 14:18 |
|
Looks good. Top safety pick.