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  • Wow. If that antique is that safe, imagine how safe the new VW's are!

    When that year car was made, gigantic American cars were killing people who hit a speed bump.

    LOL

  • @pmfabri

    The fatality rate per 100,000 miles is 15 for the US, 7 for Germany which means the US death rate is more than twice that of Germany. UK is 7, Netherlands 7, Norway 8, Sweeden 7 and they ALL drive smaller cars and they ALL driver A LOT faster on the Autobon etc. I "suggest" you do some research next time you post something as "fact".

  • SPEED??

  • the golf mk2 rocks,reliability

  • Скока звезд по безопасности?

  • pure legend...

  • Actually this was one of the safest cars in its class at that time... well a long time ago.

  • gti driver as a dummie and perfect

  • whoops! he is dead;/

  • Those of you saying "American cars are safer", compare this crash to a 1980's Cadillac or Chevrolet, and the VW will most likely come out with less damage. AND since it handles well, it's less likely to get into a crash in the first place. Also remember that this test was conducted when there were very low safety standards for cars. Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, and Volvo make the safest cars nowadays, and it's simply because they performed tests like these a long time ago.

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  • I really wouldn't mind dying in one

  • shit box

  • My grandparents has a VW Golf - 89. Bad feeling about this '-'

  • looks safe to me ;p

  • at what speed is this, cuz i totalled my '87golf mk2 and don't have a scratch =s

  • lol, it looks like it did worse than the mark I

  • Yeah, very safe... only you get out of it without your head.. LOL

  • So if giant cars are so freekin safe, how come Europe drives small cars on the same roads as big trucks, many countries have no speed limit, and their fatality rate per accident is way below the US, the land of the giant vehicles?

    1. European cars and roads are better engineered

    2. American drivers suck.

    3. Size only matters in the bedroom.

  • @squizzoo Being an American, I have to say the drivers suck here... I can't even cross the street without nearly being run over by some woman talking on her phone in her big Cadillac Escalade!

  • @CarGuy1368 well you guys should buy european cars, at least if you get as a pedestrian hit by a car you will survive impact with minor injuries a caddilac escalada and every ugly american suv shure will rip you open

  • @squizzoo I suggest you look at the death rate statistics in europe. Then you'll see why size matters.

  • @squizzoo Us europeans have bigger cujones :)

  • YES POLONEZ IS VERY SAFE BUT CRASH ONLY ONE I HELP SO

  • newer this crash ups i drive 5 year my golf two but this small caR

  • pretty good for such an old car:) i Drive one;)

  • mam takiego golfa

  • i bet the motor stll runs:D

  • @woluhar1 No I'm sure it doesn't it's a stinking Golf FCOL... >.<

  • @DexMaster881 ˝jebote tko te napravio˝ prodaj fiča kupi golfiča:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

  • Hmmm my car is a golf 2 .... goodbye

  • DAS ZHEST.

  • Hm...good to know, i'll never hit something with my golf

  • moral of the story...dont hit anything on the drivers side. lol

  • pizdec mne bljadj, nedolga mne zitj astalosj ... ne vrot jebenaja hujetenj ... ah vot kak zabotjaca abamne nemeckie inzeneri ... ja jebu... etaze nadabila tak shalturitj ...

  • @KINOfann now in human language?

  • did the engine just vaporise or something?! LOL

  • @stev1212

    No it didn't it was designed to roll under the bodywork to give more crumble zone.

    In this case a bit to much apparentely...

    But a bit more safe than Japanese and French cars of same years...

  • Germans never cared about human life.

  • @SparrowNoblePoland Like the Japanese did it right? Civics of thet year would blown into two or three pieces

  • @feki122 No, I prefer some 1977 FSO Polonez which would take that hit without any danger for driver or passanger and relax, I just said a "black joke".

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  • mh i ask myself how it feels to get a Engine into my chest

  • @KTVStudio I Think it can get pretty hot;)

  • @marcus974ever :D PRETTY hot ^^

  • @KTVStudio Yhen engine is hot as fuck, then it get melted into you

  • Bei welcher Geschwindigkeit war das?

  • xD der fährt danach bestimmt noch xD

  • капец....

  • Immediate death.

  • likea coke can

  • Народ по Русски написать то слабо ипать?

  • Dead. End of story.

  • that works for me...safe car no doubt about it! lol

  • This car cost here in Serbia between 1500 and 2000 euro !!! Like Golf 2, 240.000km, year 1986 - 1900 Euro!

    So if you want to waste your money one some old iron box, which requires repair every 2 months, come here to buy a used car.

  • @MadRocketSnail Brate mnogo si u pravu

  • jajaj soo stupid car... :)

  • Dwójki jak na swoje lata to twarde auta i przy 50km nie było by takiego zniszczenia auta...

  • @LegwanMega potwierdzam, "dwójka" to na prawdę wytrzymałe auto ;)

  • Wow.. That kid iz a fuckin retart, thatz a German car u asshole,,and therez nothin better.mk2GTI....87..vw

  • @yoyi4040

    yea there is, its the .:R32 champ

    become an .:R owner and u'll see what i mean =P

  • na pewno nie było to 50 tylko więcej.golf 2 wbrew pozorom to twarda sztuka jak na takiego staruszka.

  • 25km/h

  • nope it's 30 mph i guess 56km/h

  • fuck this vw 2 unsafe car 100%......death in the moment

  • with what speed it crashes?

  • 64 km/h

  • no 56 km/h 30 mph

  • 30 mph = 48 km/h

    this crash test = 56 KM/H

  • ah yeh sorryyy :S it's 30 mph/48km/h i have some problems sometimes converting so yeah it's

    30 mph or 48 km/h

  • kurcze ja mam mk2..... teraz wiem ze lepiej jechac wiecej niz 64km/h na jedno wyjdzie:):):)

  • to m usiala byc wieksza predkosc niz 80.... nie wierze ze golf tak by sie zlozyl przy tak niskiej predkosci...

  • dobra, może niech ktoś napisze przy jakieś to prędkości było a nie tak od razu mówić że gówno ;/

  • 80 km/h to z tego co pamiętam standardowa prędkość najgorsze to to że jam golfa 2 musze zwolnić

  • z tego co wiem w euroncap dla zderzerzenie przodem jest 64km/h (standard dla wszystkich aut), ale tutaj jest adac, adac tez bada auta pod wzgledem wypadkow i chyba tutaj tez jest 64 kilosy

  • fuck it. ill die with my mk2...

  • word.

  • lol kinda sucks to be inside that car XD long live MK2

  • szmelcwagen

  • ...and getting hit by a truck instead.

  • lepiej wyskoczyć przez okno! :))

  • shit man, i own 1 of those

  • hell fuck

  • Polish fso Polonez is safe.

  • looks safe, good car

    ;-)

  • the only american safety standart is size.

    big car = big crumple zone

  • капец

  • @kostnix

    Yeah, that's why you're going to get serious injuries driving a 1950's huge Cadillic (impaled on the steering wheel or head split open by the sharp edges in the interior), whereas a top modern small car engineered for safety and ever tougher demands by the market will emerge the winner

    Also, it has been proven in the reports of insurance companies that people driving huge ass SUV's are the most likely ones to be in accident. Their false sense of "security" makes them drive recklessly

  • @kostnix better is the bigger

    nemate  vi sta je auto samo znate za golfice

  • Something really funny you can watch at HDQrPnAhSmI - pure modern american safety haha - no wonder nobody is buying US crap cars!

  • What a load of BS...

    Crap and nonsense.

    US cars will never be as good as European cars. Only European brands are making safe cars. Americans just copy them. Even US sportscars are tested in Germany, before they did so, you couldnt even take a fast corner with a Viper or a Corvette (the closest to a sportscar from the US) Don't talk BullS*it ok?

  • You think I'm BSing? DID YOU EVEN WATCH THIS CRASH TEST VIDEO? Are you blind? As far as safety goes, the Europeans have only just caught up to our safety standards. And so what if we test our sports cars on the Nurburg ring now? Isn't that what you want? For American cars to be more European?

  • As you can see the car's front absorbs all the force it can before the cabin get's damaged at all, so it can be considered safe. This car was build from 1983 on, you couldn't build it more safe without adding a ton of weight thus ruining fuel efficiency.

  • There was major intrusion into the cabin! The driver would probably have broken legs and seems to have smashed his chest and head on the steering wheel. Serious back injury + broken legs = NOT SAFE. Kostnix, yes that's true: big car = big crumple zone = safer. However, look up crash tests for the chevy caprice and the dodge aries. You'll see they have almost the same crumple, despite their different sizes. So Americans know how to make safe small cars too, and have for decades, unlike Europeans.

  • agrreed,they are still trying to figure out to this day how porsche put out 330HP on a 6 cylinder with no turbo.

  • Tenth generation (19972004)

    Ceash test watch?v=lB0araA0T_k

    Made all up to 2004 and still a total failure,failing even harder than 1983 MK2 Golf.... Dont be so ignorant and patriotic about you cars..And besides as Serrie1876 said only attempt that got a bit close to a sports car is a viper or a vette, with are both made out of cheap plastic bodywork and cat corner for shit even with gigantic tires..Besides, A Vette still uses leaf ex car leaf suspension..

  • lol, you are being ignorant and patriotic about YOUR cars as well and me. So not every car we make is safe. Show me a good crash test for any european car made before 1990, I dare you. And stop picking on the Vette and Viper, they're not even involved in this debate! And the Vette is made of plastic (LIKE EVERY OTHER CAR TODAY, European AND American) to be extremely light. Have you ever driven a Corvette? And what's wrong with leaf suspension? Solid axles are awesome.

  • CHRIST! Who the f*ck cares about the safety of the cars made before 1990 now? THIS IS 2009! Look at the standards in the Euro Ncap, they are extremely high, and btw, Volvo invented the 3 point seatbelt. And who made copies of them? EVERYONE! Quote: "Volvo became the first manufacturer to fit three-point front seatbelts as standard in all of its cars as early as 1959. And it was the first car company to fit rear seatbelts as standard in 1967, some 22 years before wearing them became compulsory. "

  • Well if you don't care about old car safety... why did you post here, on this old car crash test? Oh and 1990 is roughly the cut off date for when european and japanese cars started catching up to american car crash test standards...

  • US cars sucks.

  • the dolls are fucked

  • lol wouldn't like to crash in a VW Golf II :s

    Renault rockz!!

  • how safe was an 80s renault r4?

  • hmm you got a point.. but i ment Renault is NOW is very good for the moment.. ;)

    all 5 stars on N-cap

  • yes, of course, the new renaults are very safe

    but i think the golf was relative good for its age

  • You don't know whats backseat sex is, if you haven't tried it in golf 2 (19e) :)

  • Jaka była speed? Juz wam Mowie:46km/h:)))

  • o kurwa

  • wow say goodbye to ure legs and face after that crash...

  • in 1987 the mk2 security was redesigned and it scored much better.. in level with the time Renault 25.. it was aparently an huge improvement of security..

    You can diference the pre-redesign and post-design mk2 easily by the "2-piece" front door window. One 2-part window = this . one piece window = more recure.

    Of course even with the security upgrade its still not much up to today standars by far

    I have seen a photo of the post-upgrade mk2 crash test 35mph and it looks hell lot better

  • haha Stupid Fucker . Crashtest whiout a engine?

    of cours not

  • Speed???

  • Golf 2 1.6d-best car ever

  • Golf 2 1.8 G60 best car ever =)

  • wow:O:O crazy

  • This is why I won't get a Golf as a first car.

  • Thats a crashtest without an engine.

  • Ich fahr auch so eine Kiste! Ich find das Ergebnis für ein 18-25Jahre altes Auto relativ gut. Guckt euch manche Autos aus China an, die heutzutage verscheuert werden.

    Wie schon gesagt das Auto ist einfach sehr günstig in der Unterhaltung! Wovon man sich nach nem Crash allerdings auch nichts mehr kaufen kann. Also vorsichtig fahren, wenn ihr auch einen habt! Und ich bitte alle mit sichereren Autos auch vorsichtig zu fahren und mich nicht zucrashen!

  • Das stimmt. Aber wenn du jemanden crashst dann wird dein unfallgegner wirklich sauer sein weil die knautschzone von golf 2 ziemlich schlecht nachgibt! :) Bin einmal in ein Renault Megane (bj.2002) aufgefahren der kerl hatte totalschaden, ich musste dagegen nur die frontstoßstange austauschen. :) Perfekte anfängerauto!

  • Ach, wie geil, ich bin auch jemanden aufgefahren (Ford Focus)! 1500€ Schaden verursacht, bei mir ist nur das Logo aus dem Kühlergrill gesprungen, hab mir für 7 € nen neuen geholt ;)

    Deswegen find ich meinen Golf aus so toll!

  • Ja der Golf 2 ist wie ein Panzer! :) Geht nie kaputt und alle neuere Modellen fürchten dem! :) Und ich schweige schon von einparksschäden! Was ich mit dem schon raus- bzw abgerissen habe ist natürlich erstaunlich! :) Von Seitenbeplankungen bis zum Türen, Stoßstangen und Straßenlaternen! :)

  • ama, kažem da ne dao Bog da se tako desi. Tu nema baš pomoći, bio to golf ili volvo ili bilo šta. Osim jugića!

  • Pa, ne može da se kaže da je naročita sigurnost. Doduše, najbolje bi bilo da se takvo šta ni ne desi.

  • oh fuck

  • I drive Mk2 ,never scratched anyone,the car is a god damn tank,i drove it everywhere ,never let me down,never had repair that cost over 50 euros ,never had any trouble with anything!

    And if it sux in crash test,who cares i still love mine !!!You can't get everything now can you ? :O

  • Honda funs should listen to this because they keep saying and saying for their engines and believe that VWs and all german cars have untrustworthy engines... i also had a vw vento 1.4 with 290000 km, never had any damage, no trouble. always turn the key and go! if i had to travel the world with a car, a VW would be my first choose!

  • Hello friend..

    During war in my country ,only Golf mk2 ,diesel version could be seen driving on streets..

    There was no Diesel ,but that engine could go just fine on oil that was used in power outpost ,people mixed that oil with believe it or not used kitchen oil and car was running great !!!

    Well there was one drawback ,that was smoke out of muffler but that car saved lot of lives during war, this car in my country has name "The Tank"...

  • hello, what country are you from?

  • Hello dynamike555 ,i am from Bosnia and Herzegovina ,and in my post i was referring to war from 1992-1995 year !

    Cheers !

  • and it doesn't have that name for nothing !!

    It was so tough,and even today ,in my country about 45% of cars on road are actually Golf 2 versions, their engine can't be teared apart ,it is just so robust ,mine engine has passed over 700 000 km ,i am planning to get as far as it is going , with all due respect to Japan's car makers ,but when it comes to Golf 2 ,they never could build or made anything like it !!

  • Dieser Crashtest wurde aber mit über 60kmh gemacht... nicht die üblichen 35kmh oder sowas ...

  • sieht doch noch gut aus

  • Bisschen Spachtelmasse und denn geht das wieder!

  • me too i have a Golf 2 it's bad this testcrash

  • fuck and i have that model :S

  • yeah me too :|

  • hmmm i am glad the mk4 are safer damn thats the price you pay for lightweight, most of the time.

  • Toll die Kommentare der ganzen "Techniker" hier ... -.-

  • 100% dead :(

  • Auts!

  • Da is mein Käfer besser!

  • omg gotta stop ghost ridin lol

  • Speed: 64 kmh in Euro NCAP srash test

  • dammit makes me think twice of driving fast and we that have mk2's know we dont have air bags =[

  • TOT

  • thats on a brand new car with out any rust, most of the mk2 these days would be much worse. :( lets hope i dont crash my mk2vr6

    take it easy fellas

  • I will with my low mkII 1.6d ;)

  • I have got a '92 Golf II. I dont like this video :-)

    I think the g2 is a stronger car than we look on the video.This cars are built by strong steel's not by paper like Suzuki Swift :D

  • i totally agree with you :)

  • oh mein gott

    null überlebenschance

  • Dann hoff ich doch mal schwer keinen unfall zu haben mit meinem Wolf

  • this vid sucks! I have mk2, and had a direct crash with another car from opossite direction and was only hurt, nothing broken and my engine still worked!! This was on the open road and I was doing around 50 mph when started braking

  • Theres a difference from hitting another car and hitting a stationary hard object.

    Your car and the other car observed the energy and your crash wass less liethal. Though if you crashed in a building or something like on the vid... You`d die!

  • if you are going 50 mph and hit something else going 50mph, thats the same as you hitting something stationary at 100mph. you know nothing about physics, and chakja your story is bullshit.

  • there is a difference fool! a car is less dense than a abject such as a concrete block!! the speed doesnt matther!!a car can still observe the cinetic energy... plus two sane drivers will break before craching. We can never know the speed before hitting cuz youre supprised with a large dose of addrenalin and you cant really remember details!

  • Dont rush...

    DRIVE NICEE!!!

    :D MKII 4LIFE!

  • squashes like a cardboard box! best be safe in my mk2!

  • JESUS!!

  • I just bought my first car today. a VW Golf 2 :P Im gonna die :P

  • jetzt weis ich warum ich mir nen Komplettkäfig eingebaut hab in mein 2er...

  • Hahah thats crazy, I wrote off 2 mk 2 gti's and walked away from both without a scratch and they were both at speed!

    Maybe the post 88 models were a little tougher!

  • VW Golf II <1987r - * ADAC (this video)

    VW Golf II >1987r - *** ADAC

  • so if I have year of production 1987 what category does mine fall into? one star or three star?

  • ohh shit i had a g60 with top of 255 i wonder what happenend with that speed

  • why there is nowhere a video with the golf 3 crash test ?? :-o

  • thats bad

  • I've got one of those... Maybe it's time to get rid of it before it folds up like a soda pop can with me in it. I wonder what speed the test car is going in this crash?