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

posted by  122 and 940 and too many on  Sun Dec 30 14:05 CST 2007
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Absolutely, its one of the things that has always amazed me looking at crashed Volvos. They are clearly designed to disspate the energy of the accident right through the car. You can get a car that has been hit in one quarter and find mild rippling at the other side of the car. Yet as you say the doors function fine.

I've never seen that as a bad thing, as far as I'm concerned, if I get into an accident and the car can't be repaired that fine. It has done its job protecting the occupants. It is however markedly different from a lot of other cars where the damage is confined to a very small area.






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