Citroen 2CV Crash test
This 2CV yours is too dangerous to drive as soon as you press a tree with 20km h will be totaled.
I know a guy who drove his 2CV in a Volvo Volvo had a damaged license plate and the 2CV was totaled.
These statements are often heard by people driving 2CV For some reason everyone thinks a Mercedes is a safe car isn t 2CV Well at least 2CV doesn t fall over trying to avoid obstacles are those based BELIEVES on facts or 2CV is seen as a weak car and so it must be wrong if accident Where are the facts difficult to prove these allegations.
In a German magazine from 1976, I found the only crash test I've ever seen with a 2CV participating in this test small cars were compared on the safety of end accidents before This is the image on the blanket.
The game test cars are Citro n 2CV, Fiat 126, Fiat 127, Renault 4 Renault 5, beetle VW and VW Polo The crash test consists of driving the car 7 in a non-deformable barrier at 40km h by today's standards this is exceeded the test is not very representative of life everyday because very few people drive their car into a concrete wall Today, crash testing is done with deformable barriers the main difference is that on modern tests, passenger cars will do better than the old tests and heavy cars worse on this test and in general, the 2CV is one of the lightest vehicles around.
Note that although the front deforms wrong, the remainder, including the region of the passengers very little deforming The only visible deformation on the body is located near the top of the windshield side window remains open during the accident and here are the numbers.
Some explanations on the Fiat 126, the seat belt actually broke So on this car some data are not available The same thing happened on the VW Beetle This car was delivered to the test with an automatic roll seatbelts this was found to not be standard and thus a static belt was placed on this static belt lock let go for some strange reason, it doesn t appear in the figures.
The 2CV on the test is equipped with 3 point static seat belt from 1980 automatic rolls up safety belts are standard on a 2CV only on the VW Polo and Fiat 127 model does not hit is head on steering wheel with automatic roll seatbelts until the risk of this happening is very small and probably the test would have turned out differently.
Now I'm not an expert of the accident, but I would like to interpret the results, for example, how much better is an injury criterion chest of 68 compared to one of 133 are both low is 133 high and 68 or less acceptable value is greater than 50 fatal.
If a car was shorter 100mm after the accident, he was also 0 1m shorter 100 looks bad, 0 1 seems negligible as long as you do not know exactly what the numbers are, it is very difficult to interpret.
Therefore, the figures are transformed into something everyone can understand the car is rated on each criterion This will remove the ability to see how much better a car is compared to the other, but since we do not know what figures are exactly, this is not necessarily a bad thing this is why the ranking is very common on tests these days, it makes things clear for everyone here, the best gets 1 point, gets worse 7 points, the car with the fewest points at the end is the minimum total winner is 8 points, 54 points maximum is now the same results look like this.
static deformation is classified The article says that the deformation of the body is a good thing as long as it's controlled deformation The data doesn t say whether this information is controlled deformation of deformation by hand is good because it absorbs energy that won t reach the driver and or passengers by cons, too much is bad because the driver could get anyway trapped or injured, the number doesn t say whether this is good or bad deformation is therefore omitted seatbelt on Fiat 126 has broken, explaining it is the last in this test.
The Fiat 126 and VW Beetle are worse both been failures of the seatbelt and they finished last on the test Fiat 127, R4 and R5 are, on average, they are not always last on each criterion, although particularly R5 doesn t good odds on any criteria or the 2CV and VW Polo Polo do very well is the best car especially when comparing absolute numbers.
One thing is clear, the 2CV certainly isn t the most dangerous car here.
But to say the 2CV is a safe car Please see below 362KB Real Media MPEG 2411kb 7 5-ton truck driving at 70km h.
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