Crash Test 2007 - 2009 Chevrolet Cobalt / Pontiac G5 Coupe (Frontal Offset) IIHS

[killdawggy]

Fuck all of you i was is a 4-door cobalt that little car saved my life...cant say the same for the pinto...but that roof did NOT buckle at all. The front end is trashed, the frame is bent the windsheild is cracked the driver/passenger windows are broken, but the roof is 100% okay. Probably better than it was when it rolled off the factory floor.

[Sugurain]

Geez...

That thing bends almost like a chinese car! xD

People, that's NOT meant to happen, everything can bend and deform on a crash EXCEPT the cabin. That's what's gonna keep you and your family alive in case of more powerful crash.

[charger19691]

Good lord the whole car buckled! I never trusted these cars....very disappointing GM.

[MaestroTJS]

Woo hoo! Here we see that GM is sticking with its tradition of designing cars about 10-15 years behind the advancements of everyone else.

I wonder if that could have been a reason why they went bankrupt...yes, I wonder.

[dale0038]

I'm screwed!!!

[Excaluiber]

Gm has cars that the gas pedal doesn't stick and the drivers apparently have no idea how to put there vehicle in neutral or how to turn the key off while going uphill.

[onlyrock1]

Really? Toyota fans have the gall to come on here and bitch about GM? 

[98MAzdaMilleniaS]

@CrashJSTest The new 2012 Scion TC's does just a micrometer.... Haha, other than that you are right. Chevrolet Colorado and Ford Ranger too ? I can't think of any other examples....

[MomentFan96]

I had a '06 cobalt, two door, and got hit my a 94 explorer at 65 mph head on, my roof also bent like this but not much worse. The police said that the roof was meant to collapse to reduce force. So all of you saying thats its a shitty non safe car, think again.

[TheDolphinsfan1966]

@MomentFan96 that's a pretty fast head-on, glad you are okay.

[Annihilator1111]

the 2005-2009 Pontiac G5 was assembled in

Lordstown, Ohio, United States

[Annihilator1111]

the 2005-2010 Chevrolet Cobalt was assembled in

Lordstown, Ohio, United States

[jwmckin08]

I miss the cavalier, but this car is way safer.

[felix0510]

not so bad, you can sell your tires

[cindyforeal]

I just got this car for my 16th birthday

[zach9802]

@cindyforeal i feel sorry for you, and not just for its safety rating

[Trevrz1]

@zach9802 I just got an '09 man. It's an awesome compact- what's your issue with it?

[zach9802]

@Trevrz1 its a gm

[sxlgame]

rather die in a gmc car than survive in a foreign or european piece of shot so called cars...

[nickwilliams5697]

@sxlgame that's pride overtaking logic.

[modelchic99]

Wow, the doors completely fell apart. I have a cobalt and hope I never get in a crash. I am a careful driver.

[wildmusic1]

@modelchic99 same here i drive a cobalt too and this video just makes me feel like im gonna die in a crash O.o haha

[hellboy6661234]

how fast are they going

lol

[Bushmandzadeh]

i just had a head on crash in my 2008 cobalt the only thing i got from it was some burn on my arm from the airbag. and some wipe lash. and my looks almost exactly like that one

[pattycarljackson]

@Bushmandzadeh you could survive this crash but its not supposed to collapse on the driver or passanger like that in some cases if they got into a high speed crash going faster than this youll die because the cabin will collapse to much

[999equalizer]

compare this to the civic

[sosharpdevy]

I own a 07 2 door cobalt and got hit in the side of the door at 40mph by a lady who ran a stop sign...car was stong and also i did not even get a scratch on me...i love my cobalt....go chevrolet...

[Atheist18505]

I own a cobalt(coupe) and the 4 door version does way better, but dispite hazelwood having someone of a valid argument, with the exception, modern vehicles have A-pillars, and integrated H-bar(the solid beam in the front of the vehicle) which are thicker and stronger, than this car. The A-pillar should almost certainly not bend, if it does it is because there is to much intrusion into the passenger compartment. The cobalt has a very weak safety cage.

[mike63v8]

Civic coupe of these years also gets a Good rating and at least the whole car doesn't get fucked from the crash, no roof bends at all. Cobalt is shit. Civic is solid.

[estidecrissdemarde]

@mike63v8 honda suck

[mike63v8]

@estidecrissdemarde Thank you for your opinion, however I still believe GM builds inferior vehicles.

[aestheticadolescents]

i got into a crash in my cobalt and a lady hit the rear passengers side, her car was smashed in about a foot, yet my car only had a scrape on it. they are very flexible and you can even push on the side and it will bend in on the back. it's so safe. i love it.

[Rata4You]

The side impact is likely fatal. The side impact is likely result in a brain injury and a shattered hips.

[thecashier]

if ur a good driver u dont have to worry about being in an accident, both my parents and my grandparents have never been in an accident.

of course my grandpa did back int my bro's gf's car, but thats another story...... lol

[WedidLandONtheMOON]

i dont get it when a car crumples like that it should be a poor..and its sad to see chevys do that..its a shit car...and for it being a 2009 car it should be SAFE..with no bending of the car roof...

[Decimator92]

Its not about how the car looks afterward. The narrator said that the survival space is maintained reasonably well. The crumbling as actually good and means that the car absorbed more force and less force was transferred to the occupants. That is why it got a "GOOD" rating.

[DarkenedClarity]

Yeah it is sad to see.. I loved Chevy back in the late 90s. Not so much now tho when I seen this crash test I kinda lost hope for Chevy. I drive a 97 Nissan pickup right now. I had a plan to buy a Chevy when I turn 25 but not now going with a new Nissan or the Ford focus.

I like Nissan cuz they last and are alot more safe then they use to be. I like Ford cuz they look neat and safe.

[srcej6]

If you're deciding between a Cobalt and Focus I can tell you which one is better. My friend has an 08 Cobalt and I have an 09 Focus, both are 2dr 5spds.

The Cobalt is a little faster thanks to it's 10% extra displacement, but you pay for it in fuel economy if you're anything but a grandma in the Cobalt.

The Focus is much better in ride & handling, it has 4 wheel independent suspension unlike the Cobalts torsion beam rear axle.

Interior quality is much nicer in the Ford, and much quieter.

[pcfxer]

Having the occupants absorb energy is unsafe. Having the car, bending the roof, is more safe than not.

The key here is that head acceleration was negligible and that the head rebounded against the rail.

[Trevrz1]

@WedidLandONtheMOON It's not a shit car I own one. Two- those are called crumple zones and all modern cars do that. It protects the cabin- thus the passengers safe.

[pcfxer]

@Trevrz1 One I'm an engineer. Two you aren't. Three The roof is an OCCUPANT ZONE and should remain RELATIVELY SIMILAR.

[KingofCarz2009]

Just get a focus!!  END OF STORY

[animetodamaximum]

i still want a cobalt

[Bluestouse86]

hope i dont crash my cobalt, lol

[aksnowboarder88]

ha i was thinking the same...

[hazelwood55]

The car's roof is designed to bend. If it didn't it would transfer more energy to the occupants. Bending disipates energy rather than transferring it to occupants. You see this evolution in Indy car designs. In the 50's cars were very rigid and transferred much energy to the driver causing many deaths. Now tires are designed to break off, there are crumple zones and drivers often walk away from terrible crashes unhurt.

[DarkenedClarity]

That may be true but it is 2010 and the only car that I have seen have the roof bend this bad is the cobalt.

[tuberrifico]

@hazelwood55 The roofs of higher quality cars (Mercedes,BMW,Cadillac,Volvo) don't bend, not looking for an argument just an explanation.

[toyotas2006]

@hazelwood55

Thanks, Chevy salesman

But explain why EVERY car with a TOP safety rating DOESN'T have their roof/pillars collapse?  You won't see a BMW or Lexus fold like that

There is a BIG difference between energy transfer and poor design. This is about as bad a test as it gets these days. GM doesn't build total deathtraps anymore

Just flawed vehicles

[pattycarljackson]

@toyotas2006 dont listen to anyone who says its supposed to do that its not supposed to collapse its supposed to maintain its structure like every other ar does

[pattycarljackson]

@hazelwood55 im not saying on this perticular car that the roof isnt supposed to do that but im just saying on he iihs tests when they explained how cars are supposed to pr=erform they said the roof and the structure around it should not bend such as the roof on this car. thats why on every other car their roof is ment to absorb the crash this is not absorbing it.

[Jsoto1115]

@hazelwood55 just stop trying to act like you know what you are talking about cars now a days are designed to minimize the impact on the driver without compromising the size of the cabin. if you listened to the guy he said that leg injuries would be likely because of the cabin intrusion. what you are talking about is what they used in the late nineties and when they relaized it was unsafe guess what? they stopped designing them like that this is just shitty craftsmenship.

[98MAzdaMilleniaS]

@hazelwood55 Yeah the roof is already bending at 40 mph. At 45 mph or more, YOU are the crumple zone.

[corvetteboy10]

@98MAzdaMilleniaS Wow..... People in this world are so stupid.... Watch one crash test video and you think your so damn smart. Why dont you actually read up on it and come back and smart off when you know more about the subject.

[98MAzdaMilleniaS]

@corvetteboy10 Look at much safer cars out there.... The Mercedes E-class, Acura RL, Honda Accord, etc. NONE OF THEM have A-pillars that warp noticeably like the Cobalt does.

[corvetteboy10]

@98MAzdaMilleniaS Your point is? There are other ways to keep people safe. This happens to be one of them. The frame and the body has to absorb the energy some how.

[98MAzdaMilleniaS]

@corvetteboy10 Look at Honda's patented ACE structure. It does better in this test and the Civic's A-pillar doesn't bend at all. The A-pillar bending like that is the first sign og the structure collapsing, but in this case it's in the earliest of stages to where it doesn't matter.

[pcfxer]

@corvetteboy10 Let's look at the Sentra...MUCH better.

[98MAzdaMilleniaS]

@hazelwood55 1950's car's roof bends more than any modern car, that transfers all of the energy to the passengers, actuall crushing them because of the structural collapse. Look up 1959 Chevrolet vs 2009 Chevrolet Malibu for a good example of this.

[onlyrock1]

@98MAzdaMilleniaS You're absolutely right. Like...holy shit, eh?

[98MAzdaMilleniaS]

@hazelwood55 It also makes the dummy hit the airbag at an odd angle, and in many cars the dummy hits the B-pillar because the structure is collpasing. The bending of this results in death for many because when the A-pillar bends, the hit from the dummy's head coming into contact with the B-pillar can vary so widely.

[Latvietis96]

bad, the car`s roof was moving.

[cd8100]

whoa the roof just got bent!!!

[alexkvaskov]

the civic coupe performs better

[happyboyy8k]

I agree that the Civic coupe performs better

[lovecars890]

I don`t know how this got a GOOD rating, the roof looks very damage.

[alexkvaskov]

well it did get "acceptable" for structural integrity, but dummy injury measures were decent

[lovecars890]

Yeah you right, but the strucutral integrity should be classify as Marginal thats what I think and  specaiily this car is not old where are talking about a 2007-2009 and the roof bend a lot, and something like that is not adequate.

Thanks

[idiotfieldmouse]

Ummm..I don't think they are testing for how well the CAR holds up...as long as the dummy holds up...A leg injury and some bumps and bruises is all I get from a crash THAT severe...I'd say that's pretty good...much better than being dead for sure...

[BarackHOsama]

@lovecars890 It's because the US government is trying to sell these bullshit American cars