| Title: | Cars in the UK |
| Notice: | Please read new conference charter 1.70 |
| Moderator: | COMICS::SHELLEY ELD |
| Created: | Sun Mar 06 1994 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2584 |
| Total number of notes: | 63384 |
This morning on BBC breakfast TV there was a brief piece on how the
Rover 600 is the safest Rover so far.
There was a discussion about offset crash tests. I though these were a
good idea. The UK crash test official body (can't remember their name)
say that offset crash tests into a standard concrete block are not
helpful. They say that if a honeycomb structure that mimics the
structure deformation characteristics of another car is used, very
different results occur. Setting a car up to behave well against
(offset) concrete appears to make the same car fair badly in a simulated
(offset) car crash.
They did also say that the mandated head-on to concrete wall test isn't
much use.
All rather worrying really.
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| 2063.1 | What can we do! | PEKING::ATKINSA | Wed Apr 07 1993 17:20 | 7 | |
There's a picture in the Corsa brochure of an offset test which was
performed during safety tests.
Maybe this is just another saftey aspect to worry all us second
hand car drivers!
Andy
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| 2063.2 | Watchdog | WELCLU::DREW | Not another marzipan mercenary ! | Wed Apr 07 1993 18:25 | 10 |
There was an extensive report on all this on "Watchdog" recently,
cars that performed well on the head on test, often seemed to
show problems on the offset test.......however, it was mentioned
that any mods to make the car safer for the offset impacts would
cost only a few pounds! BUT...I reckon that it could be quite
difficult to re-engineer existing models to incorporate the mods.
Graham.
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