Here's How Shockingly Far Car Crash Safety Has Come In 20 Years
This video shows a direct comparison between the impact safety of the latest Honda Jazz versus a Rover 100 from 1997, and the difference is astonishing
This is the sort of video that stops you buying a budget banger. Euro NCAP has been testing cars’ crash impact safety for 20 years, and to mark the milestone has released this footage comparing one of its original tests to one of its latest.
Taking two small cars; 1997’s Rover 100 and today’s Honda Jazz, the direct comparison via split-screen footage is a serious reminder of why buying the newest car you can afford is always a safer idea. Unless it’s a Mustang, it seems.
Watch the video and make your own mind up. Let us know whether this film gets you in the feels, or whether you’re just too much of a maverick to care.
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*watches this video, laughs, then continues to drive Classic Porsche “widow-maker”
Volvo be like :Pffft noobs
That is insane!
It’s Honda, what do you expect? They’re helping old granny live a lot longer!
Well, isn’t the Rover a bad example here? It’s actually a design introduced in 1980 (Austin Metro), which makes the span between the cars a massive 37 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNBSuNrU9UI
“Shockingly”…
Try “pleasingly”.
Volvo owner- laughs ‘lol plastics’
Ive always thought of this as a curious 15 year old, if they do 40 mph crash tests into a wall isnt that the equivalent to two cars hitting each other head on while theyre both doing 20mph? Since the closing speed between the 2 cars will be 40mph?
Just one more reason to not be caught dead in a Rover.