Focus 200km/h crash test

[stevz]

http://www.caradvice.com.au/142628/f...sh-test-video/

[HenryFordJr]

That should buff out..

[DJM83]

Far out

[Windsor342ci]

Wow!!! That is insane. Ive never seen any campain or clip that made me crap my pants like that!!

It really does make you think!

[dylby1]

Can't even put that into words
Farking hell

[HenryFordJr]

I hit a Triton at 80km/h this year in my AU, that was bad enough

[Road_Warrior]

Goddamn

It's a relevant test too, think of the amount of head-on collissions occur in Australia on 110 zone highways. Well, quite a few in WA anyway.

[Kryton]

Do that to a 30 year old car and see what happens.

[GasoLane]

"The Focus was obliterated"... No kidding? what was he expecting, the air bags to pop out and save the dummies?

I'd like to see an American version where everything would burst into flames and pieces of car rain down everywhere

[Benjamin Smith]

Could have saved the rims

[2011G6E]

Holy crap...

Studies showed that impacts with a solid unyielding object (tree, bridge pilon, big truck, etc) at anything above 80kph are "basically unsurviveable". No matter how many airbags, how many crumple zones, the human body just wasn't meant to take that sort of decelleration.

In an impact with another vehicle, you just have to hope that your car and his car both take as much of the impact energy as they can, not passing on too much to you. Sure, you will occasionally see people walk away or get very few injuries from a simply huge impact, but they are the genuine "miracle escapes", and the usual outcome is that you will end up nicely brown bread...

Sometimes i think car safety devices could be breeding the effect of the situation since pushbike helmets were made mandatory...it appears that a lot of people...not only kids...are taking more risks, as they think the little piece of foam onnthier head makes them invicible.

Maybe they should show more young drivers video of the way a modern car comes apart like a dropped egg in a high speed crash, and they'd realise that air bags and pre-tensioners and all that other stuff may not mean squat in a lot of crashes.

[Uncle Niceguy]

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

Holy crap...

Studies showed that impacts with a solid unyielding object (tree, bridge pilon, big truck, etc) at anything above 80kph are "basically unsurviveable". No matter how many airbags, how many crumple zones, the human body just wasn't meant to take that sort of decelleration.

In an impact with another vehicle, you just have to hope that your car and his car both take as much of the impact energy as they can, not passing on too much to you. Sure, you will occasionally see people walk away or get very few injuries from a simply huge impact, but they are the genuine "miracle escapes", and the usual outcome is that you will end up nicely brown bread...

Sometimes i think car safety devices could be breeding the effect of the situation since pushbike helmets were made mandatory...it appears that a lot of people...not only kids...are taking more risks, as they think the little piece of foam onnthier head makes them invicible.

Maybe they should show more young drivers video of the way a modern car comes apart like a dropped egg in a high speed crash, and they'd realise that air bags and pre-tensioners and all that other stuff may not mean squat in a lot of crashes.

my sister had one of these a few years ago real freakish accident in a citroen hatch c3 i think she drove into a ditch and the car rolled several times and she walked away with minor scratches & bruises the Ambo's words were along the lines of "can't believe she's breathing" the police said any japanese car she'd be dead but the accident changed her driving and now she is studying to be a nurse.

[tex]

That was unexpected.....doh.

Slam a car at 200kmh into a completely immoveable object and it gets smashed. Wow, shock.

[madwag]

Originally Posted by Benjamin Smith

Could have saved the rims

Thats exactly what i was thinking!!!!!!!

[drew`SEVNT5]

Would have been safer in a bigger car with a bit more metal, like a falcon

[AC]

Originally Posted by dylby1

Can't even put that into words
Farking hell

superfragilisticexpialidocious ?





But damnnnnnn.... That's just not right

[janddbone]

**** **

[Mitch_]

note to self - don't crash into anything at 200km/hr

[mrbaxr6t]

do over with a jumbuck

[EATHSV]

Originally Posted by mrbaxr6t

do over with a jumbuck

LOL yeah and put a load of cement in the tray.

Just crazy amount of damage though. Thats the sort of thing you should be shown when you pass your driving test.

[purnong]

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

Sometimes i think car safety devices could be breeding the effect of the situation since pushbike helmets were made mandatory...it appears that a lot of people...not only kids...are taking more risks, as they think the little piece of foam onnthier head makes them invicible.

Maybe they should show more young drivers video of the way a modern car comes apart like a dropped egg in a high speed crash, and they'd realise that air bags and pre-tensioners and all that other stuff may not mean squat in a lot of crashes.

I agree, Maybe instead of airbags they should put a dirty great spike in the centre of the steering wheel
Watch how carefully everyone would drive around then

[madwag]

Originally Posted by purnong

I agree, Maybe instead of airbags they should put a dirty great spike in the centre of the steering wheel
Watch how carefully everyone would drive around then

reminds me of old 4wds that have a bar on the dash in front of the passengers.

exactly when i moved out of a big old wagon which had no safety features into a small honda civic with everything i drove like a nut!

[351capri]

Wow! makes you stop and think about how many close calls youve had over all your driving years.!!

[Danny]

Sobering to notice that at 200km/h the airbags had barely even become halfway inflated before the whole eingine/bonnet/dash came in to sit with the driver and passenger.

A real human would be turned into something resembling the floor of an Abbatoir. there'd be no recognisable features.

I would love to have seen that car close up, as 5th gear only seemed to briefly look at the aftermath.

[Franco Cozzo]

I conducted my own test in my new Focus earlier on in the year:

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/6...2773671076.jpg

Oops. Thats what happens when someone accidentally reverses across the freeway:

http://g.co/maps/kkq89

He was in the emergency lane, wanting to tail back into the grass towards the trees to turn around and drive up the grass to help his friend who had broken down, wanting to show off and spin the wheels, he punched it in reverse except had the steering wheel the wrong way.

Then I t-boned him when I was coming down the left lane.

The worst part is the airbag, its so freakin' loud, and the pre-tensioners on the seatbelts when they rip you back, you're pushing forwards on the belt very hard and its ripping it back into the reel by 5cm, doesn't sound like much but its putting a lot of pressure on a small strip across your chest and lap, I come out with purple bruises over me from it, but it saved my life so I can't complain lol.

Its pretty obvious that when you start pushing high speeds like that on the test, there will be no chance of survival, but holy crap look at whats left of the car.

I guess if you where in the boot you might have survived, LOL.

[ltd]

Stupid test, stupid comparison and he has it completely wrong anyway.
"It's the equivalent of 2 cars hitting each other at 100kp/h each". Really Mr ******? Well, let me introduce you to Mr Newton who if alive today would offer some rebuttle to your sensationalist BS.
The car hitting the wall at 200kph is equivalent to two cars travelling at 200kph each, then hitting each other dead on and being the exact same construction and mass. As each car absorbs the energy of the sudden deceleration itself, the video shows nothing more than a car hitting a wall at 200kph.
Which again, is why I say this is a completely pointless test.
Sort of like saying; "Hey, I'm gonna stick my willy in a meat grinder and see what happens". Pointless.

[mik]

a not unexpected outcome , now if they wanted to make it really interesting and more true to life, instead of an immovable reinforced concrete block,............... but basically someone giving it heaps(200 kph) head on into someone driving on the limit at 100 kph, why did`nt they do this instead ?

[Jim Goose]

Two cars head on at 100kph would be a more relivant test....

The stupid idea that one car at 200kph is the same as two cars at 100kph has been shown to be wrong..

[gtxb67]

Originally Posted by Jim Goose

Two cars head on at 100kph would be a more relivant test....

The stupid idea that one car at 200kph is the same as two cars at 100kph has been shown to be wrong..

they don't actually state that 2 cars doing 100kph is the equivalent of a 200kph impact
they state in type that this test is more severe than the standard 90-100kph impact
in the video they also state that it is the equivalent of 2 cars colliding at 120mph each
it is to show what can happen in a worst case scenario - and for the enjoyment of the producers

[NudgE^SIKBRO]

Complain complain complain. Stop getting so techincal, it's a demonstration of what happens when a car traveling it 200ks hits a solid object, JUST to give and idea of what will happen to it, nothing more nothing less. If you want to see 2 cars have a head on at those speeds go buy 2 cars rig them up and do your own test!!!