/o/ - Auto

My Dodge isn't very safe. Drum brakes all round, handles like a cart, steering is floaty.

My worst crash is gently bumping into a concrete pillar at less then idle speed while parking. I'll live.

Better video embedded.

>>3614

>4.6 northstar

>big block V8

wat?

>BMW 525i

>RWD

>No airbags

>No Traction control

>ABS barely works

I don't think it's very safe.

Still haven't crashed yet.

ABS doesn't make you stop faster, it just allows you to turn if you lock up.

>>3632

>No airbags

I gotta ask, how damn old is your car?

>>3689

>no passenger airbag, wtf volvo

It's a family car, the assumption is you'll want to but a baby carrier there

airbags and passive restraint really didnt become legally mandated until like 1990

>>3693

According to thee Dutch Wikipedia article (which I editted because I found it weird without source) Volvo decided to not include a passenger airbag as stock because there's room enough to not hit the dashboard when crashing.

>>3619

Aussie50 would be proud.

>>3692

1993. Airbags were an option that year, an option which mine doesn't have.

>>3611

>destroying an irreplaceable classic to show off how safe modern cars are

God, I hate that video.

Should have just run that damned Malibu into a wall or a steel bollard or something, ANYTHING but a 1959 Bel Air.

>>3756

So if they ran it into a Ferrari 250 GTO you'd feel better about it?

>>3611

>How safe is the car you drive?

Depends, currently it's an eighth generation B-body Oldsmobile Delta 88.Fair to middling, I guess.

>What the worst crash you've walked away from?

Well, back when I was younger, I moved to Wyoming where I made an 1986 Mercury Grand Marquis do a backflip, and landed it square on the trunk, crushing it like a beercan.

The front end hit he ground so hard it bounced both front coil springs right out.

Couple weeks later we rolled an Olds 98 at 115 through a corner, and it landed rightside-up after creasing the roof on a fence line.

We walked a couple blocks over to my buddies house, got his Blazer and some tow chains, pulled it out of the ditch it wound up in and drove it home.

Good times.

>>3757

No.

Like I said, they should just run the damned thing into a wall, but they just had to choose a classic car.

>>3756

control your autism, anon: it was a '59, not the sought-after '55

>>3759

Well the point was to show a comparison between crash safety of an old vs modern car, what better way than to crash a pair into each other?

My worst accident was when I was 9

>in the back of my dad's '99 Subaru Outback

>on our way home to Rhode Island from Niagara Falls

>whiteout conditions, snow all over the place

>snow keeps blowing up on the windows, completely blocking vision for several seconds at a time

>my dad sees brake lights ahead and slows down

>semi truck rear ends us

>truck got within inches of my head

>spin out and come to a stop facing sideways

>cars around us are crashing

>my dad looks up and sees it's not over

>jackknifing truck coming right at us

>he yells "BRACE YOURSELF!" and I do

>truck slams into the front right side of our car

>we spin out again

>come to a stop, it's over

>get out, there's about 20 cars in the accident and a truck on fire

>grab my gameboy and play pokemon in a truck cabin while adults figure shit out

All of us were completely unharmed. My dad never drove another model of car since then.

>>3611

IIRC, four-star safety rating.

Side impact protection, airbags, brakes that ACTUALLY WORK WORTH A DAMN, ABS, the lot.

It's a 'small family hatchback', so it'll be fairly safe should some dickweed plow into me at motorway speeds.

The biggest safety feature as far as I'm concerned is the steering wheel and my right foot.

And the fact that the brake systems aren't rusted to shit like my old car. Chassis and engine worked great, lovely bodywork and paint, everything else rusted to shit.