SMART CAR 1 mean MOFO

[Sho_tyme_psi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju6t-yyoU8s

Little car could hold its own :lol:

[25Horseplay]

:shock: Wow it took that beter then I would have thought! :shock:

[packrat427]

That is crazy , I never thought it would be that tough ..70 mph .Most car would disintegrate at that speed .
I can't believe the pass door still opens and closes

[Tim]

Wow...

If you ran a Festiva into a wall at that speed, it would be squished flat as a pancake!

[b3 madness]

There is a Smart car owned by a doctor at the hospital that I work at. It is always quite an attraction to everyone who walks by it. This morning there was an older guy :bigsmurf: looking at the Smart so I struck up a conversation with him. His comments were on par with most of the uninformed populace.

"Bet it can hardly go 50 mph." I corrected him on that. 90 mph top speed GOVERNED!

He then went on to say that he would not want to be in a wreck in that Smart car. I told him that the engineering in the Smart car makes it safer then many cars on the road if not safer than most cars on the road and I sited this video of the 70 mph crash test as evidence of that fact.

Needless to say, he went away with a little more respect for the little Smart car and a little better informed. :study: :cheers:

[festivaWES]

Amazing structure integgrity......still would want to be in it at 70 though....my brake some legs

[GenevaDirt]

You would be dead if you hit a wall with that thing at 70....watch the whole vid...they even state that at the end....car fairs better then the people would, yikes!

[b3 madness]

If you hit a wall head on in any vehicle at 70 mph, you would have a tough time surviving. That is what they are saying in the video. The human body's internal organs have a difficult time going from 70 to 0 mph in a split second. Not a fun time in any rig........

[GenevaDirt]

agreed...but in the smart car you would mushed up pretty good from the looks of the interior.

[packrat427]

Some may fair better than others , you never know .

People die from impacts that you would say , that was not that bad at all .

Then you have a race car that crashes into the wall 190 mph sideways , in car equipment say it registered 90 g's , driver walked away ?

[25Horseplay]

Race cars use a whole lot better restraint system then a street car does. It holds you alot more secure.

[packrat427]

^^ True , but they can't keep the organs in place ,or keep the brain from turning into jelly :lol:

[Hodag'stiva]

I've never worried about m car hitting an immovable object at 70 - frankly it's pretty unlikely.

Cornering, otoh, is someting we do everyday. The Stig takes a Smart car through the hammerhead on Top Gear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtg2gGdmmzI

B

[packrat427]

WOW, I really thought the Smart would have done better than that :shock:

:lol: :lol:

[Mammabear]

Well when the road is wet most car can't be controlled.I would think..