2016 Muscle Car Crash Tests - Camaro Mustang Challenger
NOTE As with all my posts Airbag Timeline, this applies to foreign markets of the US availability of the airbag market varies.
Luxury cars tend to get first security features with these characteristics dripping to cheaper cars over airbags times are an excellent example of this Although most vehicles would wait for the period 1990-1994 get their first airbag, the first airbag would make an optional appearance on some Mercedes 1984 the late 1980s, you can even get a passenger airbag on some luxury vehicles These 19 vehicles represent large luxury sedans and cuts; sports cars and exotic cars are not included in this group.
the airbag availability in luxury cars began in 1984 with Mercedes-Benz offering optional driver airbag in some vehicles of the S-Class and SL-Class.
In 1985, the spread of the airbag availability at the Mercedes E-Class, as well as some models BMW 7 Series.
In 1986 Mercedes-Benz has a driver's airbag standard on all their vehicles in the US market.
In 1987 there were no changes in the availability of the airbag in the vehicle group.
For 1988 models, the BMW 7 Series has redesigned a driver airbag as standard equipment, while the BMW 6 Series and Acura Legend is a driver airbag option.
For 1989, the Acura Legend was the standard driver airbag and the Audi 5000 was renamed 100, the addition of a standard driver airbag in the process Mercedes S-Class and E-Class is a passenger airbag option while the Lincoln Continental made the leap of airbags airbags no double standards by that point, half of this class offered at least a driver airbag.
For the 1990 model year, only the Cadillac Brougham remained airbagless The BMW 5 Series, Cadillac Deville, Seville, Fleetwood Eldorado, and the Lincoln Mark VII is a driver airbag all standard this year, the Lexus LS400, Infiniti Q45 and Audi V8 was introduced, while packing a driver airbag as standard Mercedes SL-Class equipment has a passenger airbag optional, and the Lincoln Town Car was redesigned, bringing standard dual airbags.
For 1991, the Mercedes S-Class and SL-Class got dual airbags Acura Legend added a passenger airbag optional.
For 1993, the Mercedes E-Class and Acura Legend did their level of the front passenger airbag as an option, the BMW 7 Series, Audi 100, Cadillac Seville Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado Cadillac and Lexus LS400 every two airbags are standard made the Lincoln mark VII was replaced by brand VIII, who had two airbags only three series of 17 vehicles remained with only a driver airbag.
For 1994, these three vehicles, the BMW 5 Series, Infiniti Q45 Cadillac Deville and finally made double standard airbags.
The search for this article was difficult, especially because the German luxury cars and differences in the availability of the airbag in the world, for example, the Mercedes S class has an optional driver airbag in Europe in 1981 but didn t have the US until 84, and is made the norm in 86 one of the few small easy pieces Mercedes in the US for 86-88 had standard driver airbag, but not airbag passenger, such as first saw availability in 89 If you notice any errors in the table, report them and I correct again, this table applies to US models.
Due to a fire on March 14 1990 to plant the passenger airbag production in late 1990 and 1991 models were built without passenger airbags Buyers received a credit equal to the cost of installation of the air bag in summer 1991, airbags became available.
Some major General Motors vehicles were offered with dual air bags in the 1974 to 1976 model year, but the first modern airbag system designed to work with the United States three-point safety belt was introduced by Mercedes Benz and first saw the availability in 1984.
All airbag systems have since been developed for use with the seat belt system of three-point which is where the supplemental restraint system BSS, also known as supplemental inflatable restraint SIR in some vehicles, has Regardless of what said airbag, it is still designed to work with a three-point seatbelt.
NOTE trucks full size on this list are the standard half-ton versions.
pickup trucks were late for air bags, compared to cars; the first pickup to obtain an air bag, the Dodge Ram is on sale in the fall of 1993 as model 94.
In the same year model 1994 Dodge has also equipped its midsize Dakota truck with a standard driver air bag The Ford F-150, the best-selling vehicle in America, and the Toyota T-100 also got a standard airbag driver starting with the 94 models.
1995 was the year of the most common model for the switch 5 to 12 models had their first airbag driver General Motors this year with both their full-size and compact Chevrolet S10 Sonoma GMC trucks with air bags driver of this year Ford Ranger and similar Mazda B-Series also came standard with a driver airbag later in the model year Toyota in March 1995 replaced his pickup with the new Tacoma that came standard with an air bag driver since Toyota has produced both the collection and Tacoma for 1995, I marked the squares standard optional on the Tacoma, not the collection.
For 1996, the Nissan Pickup Hardbody has an airbag for the driver and the Pickup Isuzu was replaced by the Chevrolet S-10 based Hombre, earning a standard driver air bag in the process Ford Ranger and Mazda related B-series began to provide an air bag option passengers this year the Mitsubishi Mighty Max was the only holdout airbag; he bit the dust after this year.
For 1997, the completely redesigned all-new Ford F-150 became the first truck to make air bags double standard when it was introduced in January 1996, several months later, the full-size truck Chevy GMC made two air bags, as well as the Dodge Dakota, also redesigned for 1997.
For 1998, all remaining trucks have two airbags, with the exception of the Toyota T-100, which was interrupted this year.
1997 F-150 was introduced early in the model year 1997 most of the traditional model year 1996 September 95-96 in August hadn t happened yet.
All tests at 35 mph in a flat wall limit for a serious injury is likely in 1000 or last fraction HIC and Chest 60 G stars passenger pilot by 1979-2010 standards NHTSA eg driver 4 5 4 stars, 5 passengers stars.
1982 - D HIC 500, Chest 47 G - P 403 HIC, Chest 29 G - Test 06 17 82 - For No airbag - 4 5 1986 - D HIC 909, Chest 39 G - P 712 HIC, Chest 33 G - test February 24 86 - No airbag - 4 4 1991 - D HIC 750, Chest 50 G - P 378 HIC, Chest 40 G - test 12 13 90 - No airbag - 4 5 1992 - D HIC 501, Chest 51 G - P 558 HIC, Chest 45 G - test February 18 92 - airbag - 4 5 1993 - D HIC 554, Chest 48 G - P 798 HIC, Chest 48 G - test February 9, 93 - double airbag - 4 April 1994 - D HIC 618, Chest 53 G - P 935 HIC, Chest 51 G - test 3 January 94 - double airbag - April 3, 1998 - D HIC 631, Chest 49 G - P 596 HIC, Chest 52 G - test 11 11 97 - double airbag - 4 4 2000 - D HIC 605, Chest 55 G - P 487 HIC, Chest 51 G - test 9 February 99 - double airbag - 4 4 2001 - D HIC 256, Chest 44 G - P 722 HIC, Chest 47 G - test 02 07 01 - Double airbag - 5 4 2003 - D HIC 245, Chest 41 G - P 334 HIC, Chest 39 G - test February 11 03 - Double airbag - 5 5 2008 - D HIC 221, Chest 34 G - P 258 HIC, Chest 35 G - Test 10 18 07-6 airbags - 5 5.
The Accord was launched in 1976, but it wasn t until the second generation in 1982 that the vehicle has been tested accident Judging by the very poor performance of the late 70s and civic education Preludes it is likely that the 1976-1981 Agreement would be a poor artist However, the record we started in 1982.
crash test performance of the 1982-1985 agreement is excellent, with measures of injuries that the best most cars twenty years younger, and is the best result of the Agreement until 2003.
Hence, the performance backslides in the range 4 stars with the 1986-1989 generation.
The next generation of the 1990-1993 Agreement was tested three times - in 91 without airbag in 92 with a driver's bag and 93 bags with dual Everyone 4 stars for the driver; Interestingly, 91 and 92 received 5 stars for the passenger, while the 93, with a passenger airbag, awarded 4 stars.
Generation 1994-1997 was a setback on performance; the driver was 4 stars, while the passenger has received 3 performance alone 3 stars in the history of the Agreement.
improving the development was made with the 1998-2002 generation; the driver got 4 stars on 1998 to 2000 models and 5 for the period 2001-2002, while the passenger remained at 4 stars for the whole generation.
The models finally saw the agreement 2003-2007 mark this elusive dual power rating 5 stars.
The 2008-2010 models improved on this excellent performance.
1982 - applies to 1986 models 1982-85 - 1986-89 applies to models 1991 - 1992 applies to models from 1990 to 1991 - applies with the exception of 1992-93 models 1993 SE 1993 - applies to 1993 models SE 1994 - applies models from 1994 to 1997 1998 - applies for 1998-99 models 2000 - 2000 applies to the 2001 models - applies to 2003 models 2001-02 - 2003-07 applies to models 2008 - apply to 2008-10 models.
Let a look at this 1979 Jet ElectraVan 600 We have a vehicle ultimately based on the Subaru 360, a vehicle that was produced from 1958 to 1971 and evaluated Not acceptable by Consumer Reports in 1969, which means that its design was more than two decades when this truck was built 360 standard variant was a kei car a small car class, even smaller than the original VW Beetle, but other variants were produced, including a small truck constructed from the platform 360.
It was this small van that will serve as the base vehicle for conversion of ElectraVan In the conversion, gliders complete vehicles without powertrains were bought by Jet Industries, a company that produces electric vehicle conversions powered in the 70 and 80 they then installed June 12 -volt batteries that have a combined weight of nearly half a ton and produces enough power for the vehicle to travel at highway speeds when these batteries were mounted in the part Central to the van and were the basis for the rear seat.
accident NHTSA tested it not once, but twice two tests were carried out at 30 mph frontal in a solid barrier By 2016 standards, this test is a pleasure, even in the 70s in survivable delay in most vehicles if you're wearing a belt seat.
ElectraVan Performance 600 in both tests can only be described as appalling The first test was conducted June 13, 1979, as part of its electric vehicle test program NHTSA was active towards 1979-1982 According to the test 1979 original report, the interior has been completely crushed the mannequins are so closely entangled in the collapsed structure as the front seat backs have to be cut open and peeled down to release the dummies, which then had to be disassembled femur to be removed from the vehicle the batteries are detached from their frames and were free within the vehicle, with leakage of the solid electrolyte 7-gallon fuel tank water heater also demonstrated potential mass flight risk and therefore fire unsurprisingly, the dummy injury measures showed that real people had been in this camio nnette, they probably would have killed two models severely beaten intrusion dashboard To start, the two legs of each occupant would probably broken G-forces on the DRI The spectacle of the worm chest that injuries to severe chest would probably have been imposed where the steering column hit the chest intrusion criterion of head injury the driver showed a risk of injury to life-threatening head; the criterion of injury to the passenger's head was high enough to indicate a near certainty of a fatal head injury in practice because of crushing and trapping of models, the wounds of a human occupant would probably receive are even worse than the measures of injuries indicate it is likely that the two occupants heads came very close to hitting the barrier the models themselves were heavily damaged after the test pilot 1426 HIC 71 chest G, 3.181 lbs left load femur, 2656 lbs load right femur passenger HIC 2663, 54 chest G 2369 lbs load left femur, 2,849 lbs load right femur.
The second truck crash test was conducted February 27, 1980, and this time it was compared to a Volkswagen T2 Microbus produced from 1968 to 1979, which was the accident tested the same way two days later, the performance of the Leap day ElectraVan was slightly better in this test; the batteries remained in place this time.
Limits for serious injuries are probably 60 or 1000 HIC and chest G 2250 or load of books of the femur.
First, let's take a look at the crash test Van Battronics This is a large delivery van, quite capable of reaching 70 mph powered by two large electric motors It was produced in Boyertown , Pennsylvania Although it has been in production for twenty years 1963 -1983, less than 200 examples were produced was designed from the ground up as an electric-powered vehicle.
Safety features were rudimentary The van had only two seats belts for occupants.
On October 23, 1979, NHTSA has tested a 1977 accident in Van Battronics flat barrier at 30 mph Mannequin was in the driver's security forces on the dummy was actually quite low; the criterion of head injury 450 and G chest 52 give this van 4 out of 5 stars by the standards of the NHTSA time, if it was tested on these standards The video tells a different story despite relatively weak forces this is not an accident that a real pilot could have walked away from the low HIC was caused by the driver of the mouth area hit the steering wheel rim with a very strong impact, concentrated, in addition to the fact that the sensor head injuries are located in the area of the brain from the single test film, it is obvious that it would cause very serious injuries to the mouth and jaw at least the legs have been pushed back into the seat at the beginning of the accident and pinned in the area of crushing injuries to the legs would likely.
They had to remove the dummy to remove it from the truck.
Remember those two batteries that power the truck they're 800 pounds each and were ejected from the vehicle on impact on the left battery flew 15 feet, knocked over a camera 80 pounds, and slid on the concrete for 15 feet The right battery flew to 15 .mu.l of a large amount of electrolyte replaced by a less caustic fluid for testing leakage in the process in addition to the detachment of the battery, the fuel tank two gallon again replaced by something less flammable for the test which powers the vehicle heater leak completely in about six minutes.
As can be seen in the test video, entirely detached body of the chassis.
Note that I did not attend this test, it took place 13 years before my birth All information is video and report.
In the report, there are also the result of an electrical conversion of the VW Rabbit in a similar fashion test These are bad enough, but not quite bad enough to be the worst of the worst.
crash test and safety car by Jimmy 2016, accident, testing, safety, 2016.