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    Image of Bartoni Bartoni
    04/15/09

    In reply to IIHS Small Car Test: Three Gruesome Slow-Motion Crash Videos
    Sadly, this is all just going to make people buy bigger cars "BECAUSE THEY'RE SAFER FOR MAH KIDS," which completely defeats anything we're trying to do for emissions, not to mention small, sporty, fun to drive vehicles.


    Most collisions that result in injuries or fatalities are single-car collisions, where a car hits an object, which makes the "wall meet car" test much more functional than the "small car, meet big car so we can screw over small car owners with higher insurance rates now that small cars are popular" test.


    Of course, with MADD being part of the administration at IIHS, insanity was bound to double.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    04/15/09

    @Bartoni:
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    Image of LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard
    04/14/09

    In reply to IIHS Small Car Test: Three Gruesome Slow-Motion Crash Videos
    If they sold ticket to these crash tests, I'd go.
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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    04/14/09

    @LandofMinos, is now commenting under the influence...: there is quite the crowd on the second level of that last video. you just might be able to attend one and get a piece of headlamp lens in your eye
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    Image of LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard
    04/15/09

    @damnelantra™: or I could take a female crash test dummy home and introduce her to my poly-ethylene Pattie
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    Image of ragtopdodge ragtopdodge
    04/14/09

    In reply to IIHS Small Car Test: Three Gruesome Slow-Motion Crash Videos
    That Smart would wind up in another lane and be a pinball on the highway.


    Not good. I'll keep driving my 300c SRT8.

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    04/14/09

    @ragtopdodge: Highly unlikely this crash would happen on a highway...unless you have a driver going the wrong direction.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    04/14/09

    In reply to IIHS Small Car Test: Three Gruesome Slow-Motion Crash Videos
    Watching that last one again... I sincerely hope that's just the door skin, not the entire door opening...
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    Image of LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard
    04/14/09

    @Baron Plushroom von Falconpunchen: I'm not borrowing my friend's Yaris anymore. It's her second one BTW.


    The first one was hit in the side at fairly low speed when she reversed out of a driveway into traffic. Not much damage to the eye but it was a write off.

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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    04/14/09

    In reply to IIHS Small Car Test: Three Gruesome Slow-Motion Crash Videos
    What I find awesome is the rotational inertia of the tires/wheels. At impact, all four tires continue rotating, and leave marks on the floor. That shit is cool to an engineer. (which I'm not, well sort of)
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    04/14/09

    In reply to IIHS Small Car Test: Three Gruesome Slow-Motion Crash Videos
    Sticking with the small car VS company's average sized vehicle I want to see Aveo Vs. Tahoe. Primarily just so that there's one less of each but also, I'm guessing, it would be pretty damn funny in a completely horrific way.
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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    04/14/09

    In reply to IIHS Small Car Test: Three Gruesome Slow-Motion Crash Videos
    ouch
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    Image of SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R) SlowMo (actually, there's no E on my R)
    04/14/09

    In reply to IIHS Small Car Test: Three Gruesome Slow-Motion Crash Videos
    If that Yaris was made by Geeley, people would be slamming it for being Chinese crap. I'm really surprised that Toyota would make something that performs so badly. It seems generous to say that it scored a 'Poor' along with the Smart and the Fit. It doesn't even seem like it is in the same league, 'Very Poor' or 'Really F*ing Bad' seems more like it.
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    Image of something_unique_and_descriptive something_unique_and_descriptive
    04/14/09

    @SlowMo: "You're f*cked" seems an appropriate rating.
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    Image of dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity
    04/14/09

    In reply to IIHS Small Car Test: Three Gruesome Slow-Motion Crash Videos
    These are interesting, but my favorite crash video remains this one (fast forward to about the middle of it for the good part):

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    Image of TR3-A TR3-A
    04/14/09

    In reply to IIHS Small Car Test: Three Gruesome Slow-Motion Crash Videos
    BTW - I think 'Mythbusters' does it better.


    Those guys are gay, right?

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    04/14/09

    @TR3-A: My sources say yes.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    04/14/09

    @Baron Plushroom von Falconpunchen: Or, rather, "my sources".
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    04/14/09

    @Baron Plushroom von Falconpunchen: ...I should've read the link address before I clicked on that.
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    04/14/09

    @TR3-A: I believe both of their wives have made appearances on the show.
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    Image of TR3-A TR3-A
    04/14/09

    In reply to IIHS Small Car Test: Three Gruesome Slow-Motion Crash Videos
    I think that all vehicles on the road should be the same size. Since big trucks are important to the nation's well being, we can't get rid of them or make them smaller so all private vehicles should be as big and massive as a semi-trailer rig... maybe even a double or a triple. That way, everyone on the highway will have an equal chance in a collision. The way I see it, it is the only solution. The gummit must enact legislation now to protect us from ourselves. But also, these vehicles will be expensive and burn lots of fuel so in the long run it will help the economy. And with more living people around rather than crosses on the side of the road, this will just be an all around better place to live. Call or write your congressperson today and demand that we be made safe!
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    Image of sos10 sos10
    04/14/09

    @TR3-A: And pedestrians should be the same size of big trucks too! Wait, that's already reality...
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    Image of Bullitt417 Bullitt417
    04/14/09

    In reply to IIHS Small Car Test: Three Gruesome Slow-Motion Crash Videos
    My god... That dummy in the Yaris just got a mouth full of Camry... See this is why I buy American.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    04/14/09

    @Bullitt417: Well, you could just buy an Accord.


    Which is also American.


    Or a Camry. That's American, too.

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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    04/14/09

    @Baron Plushroom von Falconpunchen: Not Canadian/Mexican enough!
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    Image of ThreeLitre ThreeLitre
    04/15/09

    @Bullitt417: Uh huh. sure. Let's do a Chevy Cobalt v. Impala test and see what happens to the righteous American vehicles...
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    04/15/09

    @ThreeLitre: I'm in favor of anything that destroys a W-body.
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    Image of 78_elky 78_elky
    04/14/09

    In reply to IIHS Small Car Test: Three Gruesome Slow-Motion Crash Videos
    This is just physics, people should have relalised this when they put these cars on the market. It is like the stupid bicyclist who gets in form of my car, he is at best a tenth of the weight, even in the best circumstances it would be a catastrophic collision. Even in one of these I think it would be sad to see what some old Detroit iron could do. I say the next test be a smart for two versus an impala. Use a 4dr do not waste a 2dr on such shenanigans.
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    Image of something_unique_and_descriptive something_unique_and_descriptive
    04/14/09

    @78_elky: Without all the modern safety bloat those old detroit cars don't weigh as much as the new ones.
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    04/14/09

    @78_elky: Outside of large cities, the dumbshit generally isn't the cyclist.
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    Image of Bret Bret
    04/14/09

    In reply to IIHS Small Car Test: Three Gruesome Slow-Motion Crash Videos
    Yay, no we can pay even higher rates to insure agile, able to stop quickly without falling over, cars.


    When is the IIHS going to start conducting "Piano falling from the sky" tests? That is about as likely to happen as this 40 mph offset impact malarkey.


    IIHS is a pile of industry pandering feces.

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    Image of dolo54 blows minds and blows engines! dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!
    04/14/09

    In reply to IIHS Small Car Test: Three Gruesome Slow-Motion Crash Videos
    This is why I won't let my wife drive my kids around in anything less than this:


    She's got a lot of important calls to make and I need to know they're gonna be safe when she crashes.

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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    04/14/09

    @dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!: Did you spend the extra $3000 and get the infotainment center?
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