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February 15, 2008
Back to the Drawing Board: Worst Crash Test Ever.
By John
Editor
Yikes! This crash test makes the one for the Cherry Amulet look like a birthday party! Editorial hasn’t been able to determine the make of this deathtrap, but we’re kind of feeling Lada. Do you think this is even for real? It seems like structural elements would have to be removed for the car to pancake so perfectly.
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i_luv_dusty
Feb 18, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Holy crap.
Ted
Feb 16, 2008 at 6:28 am
I’d call that a catastrophic failure of the cabin, after total failure of frontal impact protection (not that apparently was any).
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This dosen’t look like a new model, or at least I hope this isn’t a new product… anywhere.
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The odd thing is that many old cars (at least in the States) didn’t crunch up much in collisions. That’s part of what made them dangerous. They had lap belts, no crumple zones and people dies from internal injuries, broken backs or necks. This car looks like it might have been fairly wintage (?) but wow… the whole thing was a crumple zone, all the way back to the TRUNK.
Unless it hit at 80 MPH, I’d say parameters weren’t the issue… poor design was. Even the SMART car did way, way better than this.
Dan
Feb 16, 2008 at 4:59 am
That’s pretty scary but I wonder what the parameters were. The car is a Holden VB Commodore (also sold in Europe as an Opel) http://www.drive.com.au/Editorial/ArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=18301
Ted
Feb 16, 2008 at 3:36 am
I think it’s a Chinese replica of a Lada.
Highspeedhijinks
Feb 15, 2008 at 7:28 pm
OMG !!!!!
raptorattack
Feb 15, 2008 at 7:02 pm
oh my go d that is insane