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May 21, 2008
VW Truck Crash Test: It’s Not Chinese, But It Might As Well Be
By Jen Dunnaway
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While we’ve been accused of Western propaganda for airing the mind-numbing crash tests of China’s car manufacturers, we generally feel that these videos speak for themselves. And when I came across this disastrous crash-test video mislabled as a made-in-China vehicle, I was more than willing to give the original poster the benefit of the doubt: the truck crashes exactly like all of the other Chinese vehicles we’ve featured on the site. But it turns out that China isn’t the only nation capable of manufacturing a vehicle that turns itself inside out upon impact: the truck is acutally a VW! Click here for footage German engineering at its finest. Thanks for the catch, valek and Toshi.
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Michael
May 22, 2008 at 1:54 am
And this is also not an actual crash test. The ADAC (German motorist club) got a rusty old VW bus, put lots of weight in the bed and ran it into a wall at some ludicrous speed. They did that when they first opened their new crash test facilities to put on a show for the press.
You can see the results of an actual VW T3 crash test (and a couple of other similar vans) here:
http://www.t3-infos.de/images/Crashtest_T3.pdf
It actually rather well.
Toshi
May 21, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Valek is right: this is NOT a Chinese vehicle, and the video should be taken down. Here’s the original footage correctly labeled as a VW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPpU5azjCB8
valek
May 21, 2008 at 8:04 pm
this light truck crashing is an eighties Volkswagen Transporter with double cabin (T3 doka for VW fans), a bit too german to be chinese imho.