The Ford Focus is No Match for the Smart

I used to drive a ford focus. They total quiet easily. I hit the back tire of an F-150. They got a popped tire. I got the front end torn to hell.

I don’t know if you can say it’s safe just by a picture. It may look ugly, but if you’ve ever taken off your fenders or your bumper you know it’s not anywhere near as bad as a twisted frame.

The video a recent anonymous posted shocked me (btw, anon, the person would not be killed in those crashed) :
why on earth, if a car has a “good” rating, a bigger car would be better? There are bigger cars that have worse collision rating and are not “safer” because they are bigger, is the guy talking in the video is propagandist? (“just because a small car has a good rating in crash test doesn’t mean it’s gonna protect you as well as larger car in the range of (crashes possible) out there.”
Then why crash-test those if the tester is not going to believe hi results anyway?
And I finish on a funny fact : I read somewhere when the smart came out in canada, that the little car was “revengeful”! The anon’s video showed it in some way : look at the target cube when a smart and a larger (fusion?) hit the block : the smart sure digged more cube than the larger vehicule.

Dave, I’m not sure about this particular smart, but I’ve seen Smarts with more damage being repaired. But I’ve seen other pictures of this particular crash and I strongly believe that Focus is totaled.
To the anonymous poster, I watched the video you posted all the way thru and I did not see where did you get the idea that the car is not safe.
Smart got top safety ratings from Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), Euro NCAP, and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). They use crash test dummies equipped with accelerometers. After the crash test they can tell if crash was survivable or not. The safety cell is made from steel, half of which is high-strength material, especially in highly stressed areas. The reinforced steel and the design of the car, including the wheel bases, allow the distribution of the crash energy. Pus it is packed with active and passive safety equipment. On top of that car can stop on the dime and have very high maneuverability, so I have less of a chance to get in to the accident in the first place.

PEACE.

While the focus could be repaired, new bumper fenders hood, bend the frame back,etc… the smart car is probably a write off in those pics.

smart cars are not safe, they are reinforced and have a very strong unibody, the problem with this is that means the driver will take the beating instead of the car, the cars may not be destroyed in a crash but the driver will be. heres a video, in every crash you would be seriously hurt or killed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz-s1sIoLhU

I meant MUCH and here is the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_86RuYXoJA

CUBE

Hey,
I hope this tread about smart will not end up like every other one.
I want to raise a point. Why you compare smart against MACH bigger cars. There is millions of other small cars on the roads. I used to own CRX and it is very cool ride, but it is not near as safe as Smart.
Just watch the video “CIVIC vs 4×4″. Honda did not have a chance.
Most subcompact cars will not do well against SUV. Same as SUV will not have a chance against semi truck.

CUBE

These cars are the only ones that my beast is afraid of.

Still something about 55 to 0 in a quarter second makes my insides feel funny…. Oh wait… thats cause they are mush.

The Smart car relies on a better interior design and air bags, combined with an apparently strong-as-hell candy shell er… body.
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All kidding aside, I’m very impressed with the Smart’s crashworthiness, and if there were enough cars that got their kinda mileage on the roads… we’d be importing less oil.
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What endlessly bothers me is that their proportions are annoying. I want something like a Smart, except lower to the ground and longer with a longer wheelbase. You know… something that looks like a damn car, not a pod.

Yeah you might be safe in your smart but that will not make people stop pointing and laughing at times!

I dunno Ryan…
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Those “crumple zones” are there for a reason:
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To absorb the energy from an impact, so the occupants don’t have to…
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I don’t really see any crumple zones on the Smart.
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Just don’t get hit by my wife in her Denali