They look like they might not do to well?

 

I strongly doubt so too. Worst case senario---> T-boned by some country hicks jacked up truck or even a semi. Yes, lots of head room is wonderful.........but for those that don't buckle their seat belts.....that's alot of room to tumble around in........

 

from the toyota bB's crash data in japan all tests were really good. google toyota bB crash tests. theyre in japanese but you will get the gist

 

Just the thought of any xb in an accident makes me

 

www.wreckedscions.com

 

Well I cant speak from experience as far as a real accident in my scion but I had a traffic cone dropped on my car by some a**hole while doing 75mph and it did $1,500.00 worth of damage to my ride denting it all to hell. So if a cone could do that much damage then I am going to say that if an accident occurs the car will prob. get pretty torn up.

As far as the saftey goes I would like to think that the crumble zones, airbags, and seat belts would to their job of protecting us.

Mike

 

my wife was driving my scion last october when she got rear ended by some dummy driving a late 80's olds of some make she couldn't remember.

we replaced the rear bumper pieces and the muffler tip, but no structural damage was done. just cosmetic stuff.

funny thing was, she said it destroyed the front end of his car. apparently not only would the car not run, the radiator was toasted- she said there were liquids drippiing out all over the place. it was towed away, and she drove all the way home from work (which at that time was about 50 miles) without a problem.

 

traffic cones have all kinds of sharp corders, and have you tryed to pick one up lately, they are as heavy as hell. I can see why a 15 lb. could do that much damage. There is a thread on here about a guy hitting a deer, and it did no damage.

 

Damn traffic cones. I guess that is why who ever hit my car decided to throw and cone off the overpass instead of a deer.

Damn.... lol

Mike

 

lol, sorry about that, it should have been more devided, the Cone came from above, the soft spot of the xB, and the deer was infront, were the xB has its fat bumper to protect it.

 

I saw one at Ft. Bragg this past weekend that was completely smashed in the front with both bags deployed. Passanger cabin was untouched and doors opened fine. I'd say they do farily well.

 

Here are the Japanese test results, in English:

http://www.nasva.go.jp/assess/englis...02e/as115.html

It seems to me the bB did very well in all three tests: frontal, offset, and side.

RichC

 

I DONT POST ALOT HERE, BUT THIS IS SOME I CAN POST ABOUT

I HIT A DOG RIGHT SIDE GOING ABOUT 15MPH $7,800 THATS JUST THA RIGHT SIDE

A FRIEND OF MINE HIT A POLE PARKING (THOSES YELLOW ONE) BACKING IN $5,300 NEEDED A WHOLE NEW BACK

I DINT READ THE TEST, BUT I CAN SAY THESE DAMN CAR CANT TAKE A HIT OR A LICK

READY TO GET A NEW CAR, XB AIN'T LIVING UP TO WHAT EVERY ONE WAS TAKING ABOUT !!

 

Here are the bB crash test videos i think you need realplayer to see them though : (i hope this works)

Front collision: http://www.nasva.go.jp/assess/englis...2/mov/fa_02.rm

Offset front collision: http://www.nasva.go.jp/assess/englis...2/mov/oa_02.rm

Side collision: http://www.nasva.go.jp/assess/englis...2/mov/sa_02.rm

First post by the way

 

Offset front collision is like my crash it was so bad no one thought a hitting a dog could do that to me XB

thats why the car is $15,000

 

Wow! Those videos really show how light the bB is.

Any data or pics on roll overs?

 

don't hit dogs and poles. cuzz those crash tests look like the car does an awesome job.

 

 

I posted this last night in another thread... It's a pic of a bB after a side impact crash test in Japan.

 

These are also my observations, the skin and outer pieces are fragile and vunerable to being damaged quite easily. The crumble zones and saftey designed into the subframe seems to be sound. The car has solid engineering with very light materials to keep weight and cost down. You can't have it all....