Chinese car crash! wow....

John · 01-08-08, 11:30 PM

this is at 40mph...

YouTube - Chinese Auto Crash Test Compilation

Big-Foot · 01-09-08, 07:19 AM

Probably made by the same company that just put a rocket into orbit... Pretty darned scary..

Neal · 01-09-08, 10:02 AM

Looks like they copied the crumple zone of a Trebant!

Daryl Adams · 01-09-08, 11:32 AM

Cars...no. But they do a great job with their pot stickers.

Rick S. · 01-09-08, 11:41 AM

omg. I about threw up. I guess that if the driver's area crumples like that the airbags don't do much good...

Chris Simpson · 01-09-08, 12:23 PM

Best be in the back seat!

Chris

Big-Foot · 01-09-08, 01:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chrissimp

Best be in the back seat!

Chris

Nah - if you got rear-ended by a bicyclist would put you in the hospital!!!!

Chris P. · 01-09-08, 03:57 PM

Best reply I read under the video:

" yeah, airbags do a lot of good when you eat them"

I LOVE GT40- Paolo · 01-09-08, 05:16 PM

ok, BUT...if I am not wrong the second orange suv is anyway a GM/Isuzu project of 15 yrs ago.(sold in europe as opel Frontera..).

Crash test are always a fake,probably done just to show a "safety" that is just virtual.
No matter about the great progress during those years in active and passive safety, but unless we have Trucks around the streets (and who knows HOW those are done knows what I mean) we shall consider all the cars more or less at the same level.

In 3 years they will increase the speed of 5 km/h in crash experiments and all the parameters valid today will be changed at all (wasnt the VW Golf 3 the safest european car ever?..lets try test it today....and we still have those on the streets).

IMHO car crashes are ALWAYS a matter of fortune.

John · 01-09-08, 11:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kenshiro8

ok, BUT...if I am not wrong the second orange suv is anyway a GM/Isuzu project of 15 yrs ago.(sold in europe as opel Frontera..).

Crash test are always a fake,probably done just to show a "safety" that is just virtual.
No matter about the great progress during those years in active and passive safety, but unless we have Trucks around the streets (and who knows HOW those are done knows what I mean) we shall consider all the cars more or less at the same level.

In 3 years they will increase the speed of 5 km/h in crash experiments and all the parameters valid today will be changed at all (wasnt the VW Golf 3 the safest european car ever?..lets try test it today....and we still have those on the streets).

IMHO car crashes are ALWAYS a matter of fortune.

Wait, are you saying crash tests are pointless? And living though a crash is just a matter of luck?

I LOVE GT40- Paolo · 01-10-08, 05:17 PM

hum, no John, I just think the "serious" ones shall be done in quite different conditions.
Quite surely we all drove shitty coffins as those chinese ones in the past,but we probably believe (at the time) they were safe enough,even more if they had a SUV or off road appearence.

Car crashes have usually a moltitude of events or strange point of impacts that are almost never tested in todays tests.
Sure..it is obvious modern cas are safer, but I think they are still not enough at the level commercials want us to believe they are.
An example, my convertible bmw has a safety system (a sort of roll bar) that should come out during a rollover.
I think that is just a "ghigliottina" for people sitted there in a tragic moment as a roll over with a cabrio car (as well as I dont dare to think at it with a Cobra..).
They say tis is one of the best safety system on a car,...unless u have the possibility to see a car as your one (my bmw) crashed, and THEN u see how much they cheat on this.

The only real SAFE cars in my opionons are only todays formula one.

Gary Kadrmas · 01-10-08, 08:25 PM

Paolo,

This is a crash in a Cobra:

http://www.kentuckycobraclub.com/members/show/50

Ouch! From the thread, it states the driver and passenger will be OK and will recover. Good pictures.

Cliff Beer · 01-11-08, 02:31 AM

Good thing the airbag saved the guys head - he can now enjoy the experience of being crushed alive by the rest of the car.....

I LOVE GT40- Paolo · 01-11-08, 03:47 AM

impressive, really..

TonyM · 01-11-08, 09:20 AM

Crumple zone similar to fortune cookie...!!!

Steve26 · 01-11-08, 10:14 AM

I spent seven hours in a Chinese taxi with five guys from Hangzong to Chendo one night because a flight was canceled and thoughts about a crash like this went through my mind. Very scary over there once you get out of the larger cities.
Steve