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Offline Chris_

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Which Car Is The Biggest Death Trap?
« on: June 12, 2008, 07:50:19 PM »
What was supposed to be an informed discussion about poorly-engineered vehicles at Jalopnik derailed into an orgy of crash test videos.  This one comes with some bitchin' music...

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irTqF0wPKso[/youtube]

Don't bogart that VW, man...

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPpU5azjCB8[/youtube]

French engineering at it's finest.  Yikes. 

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUIxMIyExqE[/youtube]


http://jalopnik.com/395953/which-car-is-the-biggest-death-trap
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Re: Which Car Is The Biggest Death Trap?
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2008, 09:20:31 AM »
Geo Metros are up there as far as American cars are concerned.
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Re: Which Car Is The Biggest Death Trap?
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2008, 03:05:02 PM »
Quote from: Odin's Hand on June 13, 2008, 09:20:31 AM
Geo Metros are up there as far as American cars are concerned.

Not sure, but last time I heard ,the Metro was manufactured by Suzuki in Japan.....

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Re: Which Car Is The Biggest Death Trap?
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2008, 03:21:23 PM »
Quote from: TVDOC on June 13, 2008, 03:05:02 PM
Quote from: Odin's Hand on June 13, 2008, 09:20:31 AM
Geo Metros are up there as far as American cars are concerned.

Not sure, but last time I heard ,the Metro was manufactured by Suzuki in Japan.....

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They were a joint venture by Suzuki and GM that were manufactured at CAMI in Ingersoll, Ontario. Geo Metros actually became Chevy Metros in the U.S. and Canada in later models.
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Re: Which Car Is The Biggest Death Trap?
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2008, 04:31:49 PM »
The F-150 did not do very well in the first video, never seen a truck fold up so fast.

That music gave me a headache.  :-)
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Re: Which Car Is The Biggest Death Trap?
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2008, 04:37:19 PM »
The Metro looks pretty safe:

[youtube=425,350]53j2wl16Ozw[/youtube]

 :-)


Head on is not bad:

[youtube=425,350]9bz3oLN93HA[/youtube]
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Re: Which Car Is The Biggest Death Trap?
« Reply #6 on: June 14, 2008, 10:51:40 PM »
Just wait till those death traps form China get here.
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Re: Which Car Is The Biggest Death Trap?
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2008, 11:48:08 AM »
Quote from: Lacarnut on June 14, 2008, 10:51:40 PM
Just wait till those death traps form China get here.

Good point.
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Re: Which Car Is The Biggest Death Trap?
« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2008, 12:04:27 PM »
Quote from: Lacarnut on June 14, 2008, 10:51:40 PM
Just wait till those death traps form China get here.

That Cherry Amulet at 3:38 in the video is one of those Chinese cars I think.
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Re: Which Car Is The Biggest Death Trap?
« Reply #9 on: June 15, 2008, 01:39:16 PM »
The Chinese Brilliance SUV is the orange truck in the first video's freeze frame.  That and their BS6 sedan folded up like wet paper bags.
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Re: Which Car Is The Biggest Death Trap?
« Reply #10 on: June 16, 2008, 10:58:15 AM »
How bout this one?[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju6t-yyoU8s[/youtube]
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Re: Which Car Is The Biggest Death Trap?
« Reply #11 on: June 16, 2008, 11:45:02 PM »
Its funny how the Russian cars always look 30 years older than any other car made. So much for single party rule encouraging innovation I guess. The Chinese are trying hard to make their "Cherry" line of automobiles 'look' like Japanese cars but these crash tests are good for showing which actually has good engineering inside them. I loved the music in that first vid! Always been a fan of Techno.
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Re: Which Car Is The Biggest Death Trap?
« Reply #12 on: June 18, 2008, 10:57:05 AM »
The Metro was actually a safe little car.  It averaged 55 mpg.  It was built by Suzuki.

The worst and most unsafe car has to go to the Corvair.  With the location of the gas tank in the front, it always burst into flame, and roasted the occupants.  Thousands of people died in those vehicles.

It was the car that launched Ralph Nader's career.
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Re: Which Car Is The Biggest Death Trap?
« Reply #13 on: June 18, 2008, 01:03:05 PM »
Quote from: OkieJohn on June 18, 2008, 10:57:05 AM
The Metro was actually a safe little car.  It averaged 55 mpg.  It was built by Suzuki.

The worst and most unsafe car has to go to the Corvair.  With the location of the gas tank in the front, it always burst into flame, and roasted the occupants.  Thousands of people died in those vehicles.

It was the car that launched Ralph Nader's career.

My father hated the Corvair up until the day he died...he had a best friend buy one new, and every weekend my dad was trying to keep the thing running.......they were junk when new....even worse now!
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Re: Which Car Is The Biggest Death Trap?
« Reply #14 on: June 18, 2008, 01:29:50 PM »
Last weekend, I drove a 1968 Corvair factory turboed convertible.  There were only about 100 made.  It would make a great project car but I would never drive it on a daily basis.

You could have it for $8000.  Restored it would go for 10 times that.  The car was in excellent condition.

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Re: Which Car Is The Biggest Death Trap?
« Reply #15 on: June 18, 2008, 05:17:34 PM »
Quote from: RobJohnson on June 18, 2008, 01:03:05 PM
Quote from: OkieJohn on June 18, 2008, 10:57:05 AM
The Metro was actually a safe little car.  It averaged 55 mpg.  It was built by Suzuki.

The worst and most unsafe car has to go to the Corvair.  With the location of the gas tank in the front, it always burst into flame, and roasted the occupants.  Thousands of people died in those vehicles.

It was the car that launched Ralph Nader's career.

My father hated the Corvair up until the day he died...he had a best friend buy one new, and every weekend my dad was trying to keep the thing running.......they were junk when new....even worse now!

Actually the Corvair is unjustly maligned in so many ways.....in my youth, I owned several, and there was nothing better in a Minnesota winter.....they would start and run at 35 below, and go through snow drifts as high as the hood....those cars got me to work on days when I was the only one to make it......

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