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actually i think it looks pretty good... while the roof did buckle, the cabin maintained its form, the seats appear to be fine, and the air bags went off (as per usual)
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Originally posted by Speed Demon:
actually i think it looks pretty good... while the roof did buckle, the cabin maintained its form, the seats appear to be fine, and the air bags went off (as per usual) Uh, look at the post right before yours, look at the HOnda Civic...roof didn't even buckle...
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Doesn't look that bad considering they crashed a Mondeo.  
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1. Consider that this is an offset crash, all of the crash energy has to be absorbed by only one side of the car. This is nearly equivalent to a full head-on crash at ~70mph or so.
2. Those complaining about the roof buckling. Look at where the roof buckled. It is clearly designed to buckle in that location, in order to maintain a safe passenger compartment (it buckles BETWEEN the front and rear passenger areas)
3. The passenger compartment remains pretty well intact, despite the appearance of things. Remember, Ford, nor any other automaker, has the ability to change the laws of physics, so the crash energy has to go somewhere. I would much rather the crash energy go into the structure of the vehicle, making it ugly, than into me, making me even uglier, or dead.
I guess that's one of my pet peeves, that people yell and scream about crash protection etc, etc, like somehow the engineers can violate physics. I think cars today are EXTREMELY safe, but it is still a very traumatic event for anyhting over a minor fender bender, and a lot of people don't realize that. Do yourselves a favor, and tighten the nut behind the wheel as often as possible, so that you can avoid most accidents in the first place.
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Originally posted by 99SESPORT: Originally posted by Speed Demon:
[b]actually i think it looks pretty good... while the roof did buckle, the cabin maintained its form, the seats appear to be fine, and the air bags went off (as per usual) then go sell your contour, i'd wreck in an american car any day over a japaneese piece of tin....
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I wonder it the euro bumper make any difference over the NA ones?
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Originally posted by Speed Demon: Originally posted by 99SESPORT: [b] Originally posted by Speed Demon:
[b]actually i think it looks pretty good... while the roof did buckle, the cabin maintained its form, the seats appear to be fine, and the air bags went off (as per usual) Uh, look at the post right before yours, look at the HOnda Civic...roof didn't even buckle...[/b] Uh, check my sig...
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Originally posted by Rara:
1. Consider that this is an offset crash, all of the crash energy has to be absorbed by only one side of the car. This is nearly equivalent to a full head-on crash at ~70mph or so.
2. Those complaining about the roof buckling. Look at where the roof buckled. It is clearly designed to buckle in that location, in order to maintain a safe passenger compartment (it buckles BETWEEN the front and rear passenger areas)
3. The passenger compartment remains pretty well intact, despite the appearance of things. Remember, Ford, nor any other automaker, has the ability to change the laws of physics, so the crash energy has to go somewhere. I would much rather the crash energy go into the structure of the vehicle, making it ugly, than into me, making me even uglier, or dead.
I guess that's one of my pet peeves, that people yell and scream about crash protection etc, etc, like somehow the engineers can violate physics. I think cars today are EXTREMELY safe, but it is still a very traumatic event for anyhting over a minor fender bender, and a lot of people don't realize that. Do yourselves a favor, and tighten the nut behind the wheel as often as possible, so that you can avoid most accidents in the first place. Brian, I posted the pic and I said it didn't look good. There are other pics of cars that are better looking, one (the 406) which I said looks worse. I wasn't slamming Ford.... I said I had a general understanding, not an indepth understanding, of crumple zones. I don't expect Ford to change Physics, why should I when they can't change the things they do have control over. Not every post here is a slam against Ford. No need to be on the defensive all the time.
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Originally posted by LittleFishie: Originally posted by The MarkO Guy:
[b]This desn't look good to be honest.
Yeah, and it didn't even crack! Now that is the definition of safety there.... :rolleyes:
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