Hope your sitting down if u own a 80's model Commodore

ok look at this, you smash anything into a brick wall hard enough and it will be turned into a pancake
YouTube - awesome crash test into wall

 

the problem with cut and shuts is that the weldline can fracture, causing the structure to collapse at that point (usually near the B-pillar).

if you look at the video, although it does fold near that point, the rest of the car forwards of the boot pretty much gets squashed as well. even if there was no cut and shut (which there may not have been), everyone would be dead.

all the video proves is that hitting a brick wall at 100 km/h is going to **** you up real bad.

 

Lesson learned: Do NOT hit a brick wall with a car

 

Rofl!! ^^^^

 

Oh ok I thought you were just calling them **** because you dislike them. The VLT was fast 20 years ago. But a stock VLT 150kw vs a stock 200kw v6 what has 20 years of technology on the VLT is not a fair comparison :thumbsup:.

 

haha when i was downstairs today i had a look @ my old valiant charger and i reckon the way it was built, (like a tank) that wall would come off second best

 

isnt the backseat where most VL drivers sit when driving anyway?

 

LMFAO!!! that sir is GOLD!!! :bow: :wax:

 

Call of the Year

 

Whoa...messy...

It has been said by crash experts that in even the best, most air-bag-filled modern car, that simple physics and human body strength means that hitting a totally solid and immovable object like, say, a big tree or concrete bridge pylon, at anything more than 80km/hr is "basically unsurvivable". oh sure, some people will survive, but they most likely will be horribly injured, and anything less will be a case of pure lucky chance.
The reason is that even though two cars might hit at, say, 90km/hr, they both crumple and absorb some of each others energy, dissapating the energy into the vehicle structure, and also giving you time to be physically decellerated by the air bags and seat belts.
However, if you smack something big and solid enough to basically not "give" when you strike it, it will absorb bugger all energy from the collision, and your poor soft human body has to take a greater percentage of the energy which is just looking for somewhere to go.
This is also why people falsely believe that in a major crash, they are safer in massive four wheel drives with full chassis and covered in bullbars...you smack into something, the energy has to go somewhere...if the vehicle won't deform much, and the bullbar transfers the energy back to the body, what do you think is going to be damaged? Once again, your nice delicate internal organs.

Back to that video, I wouldn't particularly like to be in anything at all on the roads today in an impact that fast into something that immovable...I too would agree the speed would be something well over 100km/hr, most likely staged to see exactly what would happen in a worst case scenario...

 

what you have to remember is, that a crash test at 100km/h is like 2 cars having a head on at 60 ish. Its gonna hurt. being a fire fighter, I have seen a few cars into trees/poles. Man, they just fold up. Scary.