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Old May 26th, 2008, 02:35 PM   #1
 
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206, C3 & Mini cabrio crash tests. In which car will you hair get more ruffled? They should have used Raef from the Apprentice for this test...

Anyone give a summary of the commentary?

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Short summary: none of them is real safe. The front passengers have head contact with the floor as the front pillars deform significantly. The Citroen comes last. Its rollbars in the rear are quite low, so together with the collapsing front pillars, all passengers are pretty bad off. The Peugeot is better due to its automatically extended rollbars, but still, the front pillars collapse to an extent. The Mini is the best in these categories, yet the bad seatbelts (watch the front passenger slip out) negate the result a bit.
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Thanks for the tranz Interceptor.

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thatd suck to have happen to you. but that machine is awesome! i need one of those for something!
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I think those things are pretty ghey. images/smilies/dry.gif
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