http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGWRf1OeYFc Guy's just look at this it nuts

 

that door skin came off easily cause it was folded in and sealed, other than that..it was a messy crash with fragile plastic and composite bits flying all over the place..but the a-pillar held up good.



i thought the roof and the a-pillar cover's in the interior were shoddingly installed cause of the exposed gaps cause it used spring clips, maybe it was on purpose to let the airbag deploy without much resistance.

 

The very small overlap test they are running is jacking up almost everything. The new Elantra doesn't look that bad, from a relative standpoint.



Big safe suv thing.. same test

[media]http://youtu.be/lPL0Vi_8fiI[/media]



Full on impact for the new elantra.

[media]http://youtu.be/3wRvdAgNX4U[/media]

 

Yeah but compare that to a civic, S60, or forester doing the same test. It's not like IIHS just surprised everyone by doing the newer crash tests.

 

and all of a suddden, most of IIHs darling's in the test are poorly scored because the carmakers focused on frontal crash..ever wonder what's it like falling asleep on a single lane road while driving and smacking opposite traffic..





i've seen a moderate overlap on a X-DII and it did very well, too bad there's no test data on small overlap

 

I guess the overlap test is to put in the real world of going off the road and in to a pole because that happens more then people think but front on not to bad

 

[media]http://youtu.be/qlo77euKkCI[/media]



It did do better. One was listed as good and the other acceptable, much like most of the other small cars. Other than the new Corolla... it didn't so so well. Both look bad because of how much force is being applied to a small area. That was the point I was making, that all cars are going to look really bad in that test.

 

the Honda seemed to fair a bit better in that crash test than the Hyundai. The dash in the Honda didn't seem to move / come apart as much. Either way I wouldn't want to be in a crash like that in ANY car.

 

I wonder if any of the parts that left on the car goes back in to what we buy lol I would not put it pass them

 

Well perhaps "surprise" isn't exactly what they did, but the study leading to the new test is from 2009 and the test is from 2012. It's a bran-spankin-new test, and a very demanding one at that. When they have instituted new kinds of crash tests in the past, existing models failed left and right. Given a few years of engineering, they have pretty well managed to get a moderate-offset crash survivable. A small-offset crash is something like a worst-case and it's hardly a surprise they are fatal in current-model cars. Give us a decade of engineers and wicked-smart computers working on it, and let's see what the small-offset test results look like.