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I'm calling bs on that one. No car designer / engineer would ever design a car to crumple like that in a crash. That VW was modified to do that for that video. That can be the only explanation.
I'm calling bs on that one. No car designer / engineer would ever design a car to crumple like that in a crash. That VW was modified to do that for that video. That can be the only explanation.
Don
If you look at this VW beetle and golf crash test, they do the same thing, not nearly as bad, but still
I'm calling bs on that one. No car designer / engineer would ever design a car to crumple like that in a crash. That VW was modified to do that for that video. That can be the only explanation.
Don
I dunno, that is an older model... 60's or 70's? I dunno... I think its just the build quality before all the safety laws were put into place.
With those old bus's, same with the Beetle, the engine was in the back.... there wasn't a whole lot of structure up front, and more weight in back etc....
Everybody gripes about the govenment meddling in car design but those old crackerbox VW's really are that bad. Without some standards they'd still be like that. About 65% of the structure, the weight mass, and everything else is in the back. There is no protection for anything in the front. It's a good thing they were the hippy favories otherwise there'd be even more of the smelly buggers.
Everybody gripes about the govenment meddling in car design but those old crackerbox VW's really are that bad. Without some standards they'd still be like that. About 65% of the structure, the weight mass, and everything else is in the back. There is no protection for anything in the front. It's a good thing they were the hippy favories otherwise there'd be even more of the smelly buggers.
They're just like the hippies who drive them; ugly, smelly, slow, often decorated in un-appealing fashion, wearing large peace signs (the footprint of the American Chicken), and popular for unfathomable reasons, but realy useless and unable to deal with real-world situations!
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