Smart Car Crash Test

[Funky_Fish14]

Originally Posted by Gizmo

Well there's your problem... Its a Ford

I have heard:

FORD = Fix Or Repair Daily

Lol.

[Beermaster]

Originally Posted by Funky_Fish14

I have heard:

FORD = Fix Or Repair Daily

Lol.

I think it goes more like this

FORD = First On Race Day

[Funky_Fish14]

Haha, some like them, some dont, thats the only one I had heard haha. That one is good though!

[deep6er]

Originally Posted by Beermaster

I think it goes more like this

FORD = First On Race Day

what to be in the repair shop!!! lol

sorry Im a chevy freak

[Beermaster]

Originally Posted by Murminator

doesn't matter what you drive if you get hit by a semi your coming out on the losing end.

Acully Murry one of my Best friends last winter rear ended a semi @ 80km/h got spun out into on comming traffic and went head to head with a peterbuilt at 60 km/h and wrote off the semi did 75k damage to the semi and he broke his femer, all he was in was a Dodge pick up

If i can find the pictures of his truck i will post them

[Murminator]

Originally Posted by Beermaster

spun out into on comming traffic and went head to head with a peterbuilt at 60 km/h and wrote off the semi did 75k damage to the semi and he broke his femer, all he was in was a Dodge pick up

Thats because he was in a Dodge sorry to hear about the poor sap driving the Peterbilt...the yugos of trucks

F....found
O....on
R....reservation
D....dump

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Murminator

I think they are very safe they are a roll cage on wheels doesn't matter what you drive if you get hit by a semi your coming out on the losing end. These cars a so light if you did get hit the energy would be transfered it would be like kicking a soccer ball as to kicking a brick. We sometimes think the bigger vehicles are the safest but sometimes not
Here is a vid of a ext cab truck at 40 MPH compare the driver compartment to the 70 MPH smart car
http://www.progressive.com/video/40F-150.mpg


see how well your vehicle faired

https://onlineservice1.driveinsuranc...ash_videos.asp

you know even after the accident (which were two different types) the ford truck still had more room in the cab than the smart car did.

to compare you would have to see the smart car do a head on instead od a glancing blow, I don't think it would work quite as good in that one. there was another video of the 99 ford truck (first year they went to 2 back doors opening) and there was a flaw that was fixed for 2000. but everyone uses this video to repersent all fords, which are the best selling vehicle (let alone truck) in north america.

so you can slag ford truck all you want but remember they sell more f150's than dodge (don't over drive gutless engines) and GMC (got mechanic comming) all you want want to see some neat comparasons between different trucks go to http://www.fordvehicles.com/trucks/f150/truth/ I will agree it is a ford site and they will not show stuff that may be better than ford but it is pretty interesting all the same.

Steve

[Cap'n]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

to compare you would have to see the smart car do a head on instead od a glancing blow,

That is a head on collision. The only reason it appears to be glancing is because the car hit the barrier a bit more to the right and pushed the barrier back on that side, which allowed the force of the impact to be directed more to the right and upwards.

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Cap'n

That is a head on collision. The only reason it appears to be glancing is because the car hit the barrier a bit more to the right and pushed the barrier back on that side, which allowed the force of the impact to be directed more to the right and upwards.

yup thats what I mean, the test facility one doesn't move, so it would be interesting to see it again against an inmovable barrier that won't adsorb some of the impact by moving.. having said that it is still a lot better than I would have expected from thoes little match boxes

Steve

[Cap'n]

Yep, I agree on all points. It reminds me of the F1 crashes where all that remains of the car is a cage with a driver inside.

Makes me think, if the manufacturers can produce a high quality cage when they need to, like in the itty bitty Smart, just how safe could all of our vehicles be with the same attention?