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A sobering crash comparison, 5 years apart, same curve 200

posted by  JohnMc on  Fri Dec 28 14:06 CST 2007
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For what it's worth, Volvo and Mercedes had been pushing the offset frontal as the 'real' test to build against for a long time. Volvo had equipped cars in Sweden with 'black boxes' for a long time, and every time a Volvo was in a serious accident they'd show up to look it over, and they knew that was the most common serious accident. And for a while, they were even performing worse in the standardized 'head on' crash tests, merely because they had built their car a little stronger up front to handle the offset crashes, that made them perform a little worse in the straight ahead test, but then again cars that would easily fold up in a straight on crash would offer less protection in the offset.
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