Giulia crash tests

[LukeC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YkddjbcQew

[carlo rossi]

cant possible imagine 100KMH hit
every P plater should watch this
But the side impact is impressive
Looks very safe lets hope those Dummies arent driving around australia
they are dangerous

[Garibaldi]

cant possible imagine 100KMH hit
every P plater should watch this
But the side impact is impressive
Looks very safe lets hope those Dummies arent driving around australia
they are dangerous

I agree, I don't think most people realise how violent car accidents really are. A lot of people have become complacent given the safety features most cars have these days and the fact that you generally don't get killed unless you have a head on with a Kenworth truck at 100 klm an hour. 

[poohbah]

I got T-boned by a woman in a Barina who ran a red light at 60kph last year. I had the whole family in our car, a 2012 Subaru Forester, and she hit us flush without braking on the B Pillar as were driving through the intersection. We were spun 180 degrees, and did a complete 360 degree roll on to the roof and back onto the wheels.

It was scary, but apart from some seatbelt bruises and minor cuts from broken glass, we were pretty much unharmed. Amazing really, the car was a write off, roof buckled and side completely smashed in, but there was very little intrusion into the interior.

Was never any question that we would replace it with anything except a new Forester. You can't buy that sort of proof of protection.

Only problem is that it has made my missus so focused on safety she won't let the kids in my 81 GTV because of its ... ahem ... period safety features.

[Darryl]

I got T-boned by a woman in a Barina who ran a red light at 60kph last year. I had the whole family in our car, a 2012 Subaru Forester, and she hit us flush without braking on the B Pillar as were driving through the intersection. We were spun 180 degrees, and did a complete 360 degree roll on to the roof and back onto the wheels.


Only problem is that it has made my missus so focused on safety she won't let the kids in my 81 GTV because of its ... ahem ... period safety features.

And this is what annoys me about the bureaucracy that will no longer allow fitting a cage to a road car. Realistically, a Forester (or some other decent newer model car) is going to fare better in a rollover, side impact etc than an older model car with a bolt in cage (for example - just trying to clarify I'm not talking about a fully linked into the car's structure massive spaceframe masquerading as rollover protection). I don't want to race an old road car. I do want to sprint one, and I do want to not die if it rolls (I was thinking on track, but realistically depending on my own stupidity level vs the rest of humanities, the road is probably the bigger risk). Apparently, with a cage, I might bump my un-helmeted (on road) head on the cage so it would be "dangerous". It would also obstruct vision (true, it would make it far more like a late model car with massive A and B pillars - what a coincidence).

Conversely, wouldn't want to run something full of airbags as an occasional track car and have it write itself off (at least for use as a road car) in a "sudden deceleration".

I guess I should just by a 4WD and a trailer... And more Alfas... And a bigger shed...