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Although a car may come out of a 100 km/h impact relatively well (considering the elevated speed), the human body simply cannot cope with that amount of energy in that timeframe.
As the graph shows, from 80 km/h your chances of survival rapidly decrease until you reach 100 km/h, where your chances of survival are almost nil.
Even the most well built car cannot bend the laws of physics to protect its occupants.
It holds up pretty well considering. I've seen some crash tests in other cars where the main shell is more deformed at a much lower speed. But I don't think any car would look too good after that crash test and the survivability of it in any car would probably be marginal. I wish I could speak German so I could understand what they're saying!
Despite the op labeling it a Chinese car its a VC/VB Holden commodore.
This looks like a setup, either in what has been done to the car or the crash speed. It might be a Commodore or a Chinese knock off, but the only way that the passenger cell of ANY vehicle (even an old one) would crumple that way would be if it was specially prepared to collapse like that.
Of course, this can be readily verified as CrashLab is the NSW RTA Crash Test Unit that used to be called the Traffic Accident Research Unit or TARU when I worked for the DMT.
As they say, you cannot trust everything you see on YouTube. If this was a VB/VC Commodore or a Chinese knock off and genuine, this would have been all across the new media in Australia a long while ago.
This looks like a setup, either in what has been done to the car or the crash speed. It might be a Commodore or a Chinese knock off, but the only way that the passenger cell of ANY vehicle (even an old one) would crumple that way would be if it was specially prepared to collapse like that.
It's pretty obvious to me that it's an old Commodore (or perhaps an Opel equivalent).
I had read somewhere in the past that it was a set up - an example of what could happen if a car's structural integrity was compromised my rust and/or poor repairs. I can't remember where I saw it, and I don't know how accurate it is.
It certainly hit that wall at a high rate of knots!
The crash tests I was originally referring to are recent and perhaps Chinese made cars (but I don't want to infer that everything made in China is of inferior quality - there's a fair bet that we all own many things - such as clothes - that are made there and we survive just fine).
See how the safety cell collapses compared with the golf in the OP - though I don't know what speed the test was at.
I've seen an older Merc in a crash test where the safety cell didn't seem to be too deformed - again, the conditions of the test may have been quite different. See about 1:48 of More Old School Crash Tests-- - YouTube
Last edited by greasykitchen; 10-10-2011, 04:51 PM.
Reason: b/m, b
car survives relatively well, but in humans you have stuff like your aorta ripping off your heart during such rapid deceleration.
The airbags save you from gross physical trauma, but the internal damage can be catastrophic.
See this a bit - I'm a paramedic
"When asked how he expected the first Chery vehicles to perform in ANCAP crash tests in Australia, Zhou said: "In China we have a saying that everybody has a shortcoming. Of course, cars are the same. If we have some shortcoming, we will make the improvement in the shortest period of time."
I've heard that distributors of Chinese cars eg Great Wall etc don't make their cars available to motoring journos, wonder why not.
I wish I could speak German so I could understand what they're saying!
Well, basically the first shown crash is set at 64kph same speed at which the ANCAP stars are awarded. The purpose of this TV segment was to show what happens when a 5 star ANCAP car crashes at a 'normal' road speed (100kph). They didn't go into too many details from the injuries, because they were most likely life threatening if not deadly....
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its not pretty, even the sunroof pops out. 
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