exploding ford crown victoria

[jason123456789210]

Came from Pinto factory, and techincally is a pinto.

[TheSleepermgm]

ismy 2000 grand marquis known to do this ?? the 98-00 is th same car,,,,,

[coolakiIlen007]

my Mercedes w123 240D -83 has the tank above the rear axle (model 1975-86) best car ever made, goes forever!

[TommyChevyBugle]

heres a place that sells real crown victoria police interceptors..

youtube.com/watch?v=rZFCmZJni1­4

[blakegriplingph]

Niko Bellic was behind the wheel.

[superstormj]

LMAO, you can hear the fuel pump! It's a Ford thing, you wouldn't understand! :P

[sidvid83]

I'm pretty sure almost any vehicle with a fuel tank mounted towards the rear will do that.

[wheelman1991]

Calling complete and total bullshit, unless the motor in the car that caused the crash was already smoldering, that shit isnt happening.

[Thilindel]

@wheelman1991 Tell that to the cops' families who have had to face the consequences of this design. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to search Ford being sued by various police agencies...I can tell you from EMS experience, there have been two separate county cars having been rear ended and resulting in fire. One of the two was 25 mph rear-ended..ended the deputy's career from severity of the burns received. I'm not biased. I became aware as a result of being in the loop.

[Thilindel]

@wheelman1991 Trivial effort has rendered an extensive list. This list is mirrored on IIHS links:

crownvictoriasafetyalert com / timeline html (Of course adding the dots and removing the spaces...

[Bulldogkang]

WTF why didn't no one ever think of this for hot pursuits.

[josephtan1818]

@jason123456789210 I think ur referring a Ford Mondeo or somethings which has nothings to do with this car, the crown victoria lineup was no longer in production and was replaced by ford taurus. in europe the largest sedan from ford was mondeo

[jason123456789210]

@josephtan1818 i have the vid of it

[josephtan1818]

@jason123456789210 ur video claim that it rebage as ford crown victoria but mondeo come w/ sedan, hatch back and station wagon while crown victoria, non of these body style is offered. don't forget that mondeo is front wheel drive but crown vic is rear wheel drive and the platform of these car are complete different

[boofdfast]

@jason123456789210 Made in Belgium?? WTF... does Belgium even make cars? What a horrible piece of SHIT that will be. Ford SUCKS anyways... they say "Buy American". Yet the Mustang is built in Mexico, the Crown Vic in Canada... and now, Belgium? I'd rather buy an Eclipse(Normal, Illinois), Accord(Marysville, Ohio), Sentra(Smyrna, Tennessee) or Camry(Kentucky).......... at least THEY are employing American workers AND are American made.

[jeepers2655]

put fuel cells in cars........problem solved!

[jason123456789210]

gay

[crlaw75]

Looks like a former police car.

[luigie1912]

the car starting breathing out fire when it crash

[ConejoZing]

This car went over like a Led Zeppelin. Kind of like the Pinto!

[gielfransen]

Now we know the police's weak spot.

[beammark]

wow ur retarded ... that car is going like 60 ... how often would you get rearended from a dead stop and the other person is going 60

[RecklessDesigns]

The problem is very real, but this video appears fake. Unless the gas tank was ruptured and cleanly spread gas along the runway, the line of fire that appears behind the car would be fake and caused by some substance placed there beforehand. At the speeds that the CVPI was hit at, the gasoline from the ruptured tank would have been spread out and would have gotten everywhere, including on the Taurus, causing the Taurus to explode as well.

[raulsaav]

In a crash at 80+ mph, the entire vehicle would be the crush zone, no matter where the gas tank is located, but in minor to moderate collisions, the location of the fuel tank does make a difference.

[pigfish99]

talk about a backfiring strategy for a car.

[Sal30]

Even a Smart Car would be a safer car to be in than at Town Car, Crown Victoria, or Grand Marquis after being rear ended like that. For is CRAZY to put the gas tanks in the rear crumple zone behind the rear axle. I guess they never learned from the Pintos.

[idc1233333]

TAURUS > crown vic

[SecularTechnology]

Taurus WIN

[Membrane556]

I think most cars may be at risk of exploding at those speeds.

I'd like to see how well a Honda Civic or even a Lexus RX300 would hold to having a Taurus rear end it at 80mph.

I have a feeling the results would not be any better.

[starrsm]

I've seen the entire video, which is a promo for a company that makes a product to protect against this. The focus seems to be on police cars and the fact they're hit morethan you or me. While they didn't say much about non crowns, they seemed to make the point that the location of the tank is one of the reasons that so many officers have been killed. I think they said 18, but I thought I saw somewhere else that it was more like 25. It might be an old video.

[josephtan1818]

in 1974, volvo is the 1st car to have a fuel tank located ahead of the rear axle to enhance safety

[tiggetigge]

@josephtan1818 Finally a sweede!!

[Sharkey9883]

The Ford Crown Victoria is a very old design, with the fuel tank mounted behind the rear axle, inside the crush zones. Ironically, law enforcement, with their high risk of rear end collisions, chose the most vulnerable car. Beyond the fire risk, the Crown Vic doesn't do that well in other iihs tests. It's junk.

[theradricdavis]

wat a fuckin waste of a crown vic

[lotus240s]

idk... but that tarus was going really fast... it was on a track... it sounded like a jet... i think at that speed most cars rear ended will catch on fire

[z24djp]

the new fire supression system in the 2005 models+up saves alot of lives. it realy works to. did for me a few months ago! rear end colision into me, i saw fire in mirror, i hit button mounted on roof infront of mirror, put fire out! its amazin!

[ducatinova]

lol safer than a smart car? Are people really that ignorant? Mohammad Said Sahhaf mind set

[muzacmitchell]

exactly im guessing most people havent seen the smart car take a head on collision test at 75 mph... the little egg looked like all u needed was a new front end and it would be on the road again... that car is on the road for a reason and its not because its not safe

[rhauf1]

Better chance of survival taking that impact in that crown vic than you'd have in say, a "smart"...... crown vic is probably one of the safest cars on the road.

[mdtheo]

that was a pretty hard hit tho

[bracdc]

How many people have been killed as a result of this fuel tank design?

* This questions has been answered in many different ways. To date, over 1600 people have been killed in C/K truck accidents involving fires. To determine the cause of death, each accident must be carefully analyzed by experts.

[djo9c1]

Pretty sure the Panther design (Crown Vic, Grand Marquis, Town Car) has only killed like 12 or so in post rear crash fires like this one. No design is going to be 100% safe, especially when you deal with such high speeds as many of these vehicles are exposed to when out on interstate traffic stops and you have traffic, including heavy-duty trucks, driving upwards of 80 mph sometimes.

[muzacmitchell]

i dont think any car can survive a semi hitting it at 80 mph

[Franko94]

@djo9c1 yea yur rite, wat the hell is 12 anyway wen all u have to do is move the tank in front the axle...

[cacaaleau]

get on fire like a ford pinto?

[c3h9e4v7y]

your a  RETARD

[bracdc]

Hey, don't blame me cause your a fan of welfare motors.

[c3h9e4v7y]

your a retard because you watch way too much tv and think that everything explodes when it crashes , cmon man, what are you like 12?

[bracdc]

Look you pompous little 21 year old prick! ANY vehicle that takes an rear end impact at 80 miles an hour or more will rupture a fuel tank. When you have a fuel tank rupture their is always a potential fire hazard, not the EXPLOSION that your to fucking brain dead to comprehend. I used the term loosely thinking intelligent people would read it. Do everyone around you a favor go back to school you drop out bipolar prick!

[zrmotoracer]

I'm gonna have to agree here. There are many vehicles that an impact at this speed will cause a car to possibly catch fire.

I am gonna have to disagree on the Welfare Motors comment, they would have to changed their initials, so wouldn't it just be Government Motors?

[zrmotoracer]

Isn't the crown vic. the only car that they have tested an 80mph rear impact on? To me that means this car can take a beating!

[mustang633NY]

@zrmotoracer Yeah but its 75mph according to FoMoCo fleet web site.

[c3h9e4v7y]

haha your a fucking idiot man, i cant believe yu would call me brain dead after a comment like that, dont try to cover up the fuck up you made, you will only make yourself look like a bigger idiot

[headley62]

Maybe you should go to school. Your vulgar language

is because you lack vocabulary. Therefore, you do not know how to express yourself in a civilized manner

CHEESE DICK!

[taydan04]

hahahahahaa

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[whattheheck1000]

This crash was in the 70's mph.

[flyerholland]

lol every crown vic sized car that would be rear ended with this speed would end up the same.. but they use the crown vic for police the most and they stop on the side of highway alot of times so i think thats why they tested it with a crown vic.

[dodgechryslersucks]

it's still wrong but to be fair these instances occur when the CV's are stopped and rear ended at high speeds, dead on, around 70MPH plus.

A Dodge Intrepid Police Interceptor, got the same test and also burst into flames. This is a problem that affects just about any vehicle. People are angry because they believe Ford should have went above and beyond and maybe they should have.

[pdennis93]

i think sandra bullock said it best in "speed"

"it's like driving a really big pinto"

[Nomasain]

At that speed you're gonna have a bad day, no matter what car.

[josephtan1818]

note that, most of the front wheel drive car use their rear axle to protect their fuel tank in the event of rear ended

[USFCARTWRIGHT]

this is rear wheel drive.

[ITHINKICANFLYNO]

piece of shit!

[mgospeed31]

"Jeeeesus!" That was the first thing I said when I saw that.

[desert122]

I remember seeing a story about a police officer who rear ended by a cab driver who'd had a seizure.The officers face was baked off.He to was in a crown vic.Research the old rescue 911 videos you might be able to find that episode.Now as far as the ford pinto goes I've heard that if you hit one in the back bumper with a sledge hammer it will blow up.Not sure how true it is and don't care either.Don't plan on seeing whether its true or not.

[xinkor]

i think there was a meth lab in the trunk

[sciroccoguy]

I wouldn't consider that an explosion. It is actually quite improbable for a gas tank to explode.

[queensplazasouth]

i've had 2 crown vics and that never happened.

[sevegarza]

If it did happen you wouldn't have two Crown Vics. :)

[JAGXJ401]

omg i lost my grandad because he was rearened pretty hard in his 2004 Towncar wich exploded ford took no actions on this and however did not pay up.

[biz8wca8]

I would rather drive a charger because they look a hell of a lot better than a crown vitoria

[JAGXJ401]

ok and your point is

[crazyhuyman]

Seriously...

[JAGXJ401]

i dont know ifyour using scaracasim or not but yes seriously it did happen.

[kdoggie7579]

Try it on any car hitting it that fast...the gas tank will probably explode. It's a conspiracy against Ford... The Caprice cop cars used up until '96 had a flat mounted gas tank under the trunk, so you mean to tell me, if hit with that much force, they didn't leak? Blah.

The types of accidents that account for these "defects" are of the nature that ANY car would suffer the same fate. Yes, even a Honda. Stop blaming Ford and get on with your life.

[kdoggie7579]

I'd like to add that these accidents are very "circumstantial". How many people, sitting still in a CV, get hit that hard-- besides cops-- at over 70 MPH from behind? Don't blame the car, blame the situation. Don't want to be killed? Don't be a cop. It's part of accepting the job.

[flyerholland]

ford cant do anything about it.. what do u expect.. even if it was a caprice or camaro or charger it would be the same.. .. cars arent build to be hit from the back at 70 mhp its just unreal

[1995bisquick]

I think this is one of the safest cars due to its engineered body on frame, believe me yall if that were a unibody it would look like a crushed beer can

[freeballer81]

Did that have to destroy a Taurus in the process? Carnage.

[odelgado78]

it reminds me of their pinto

[wmichswingers]

they never learn...

[josephtan1818]

fake? I're been heard the news about this problem, dozen of police officer was killed because of this, and the three girls case which was burned to death inside a limo also this problem, the lincoln town car also share the frame as crown victoria, that limo fire which burn 3 girls alive was sued against ford, you should look below ur marauder

[lpjz87]

true , but the ford was not Crown victoria , it was Pinto ( if we're talkin about the same case )

[mustang633NY]

@josephtan1818 and how many DIDNT explod when hit at 60 or 70 mph? just asking

[caffeinefree03]

Its a fake test! They altered it by putting a steel pipe on the frame so it would puncture the gas tank. Ive seen plenty panther cars rear ended beyond belief and not caught fire.

Any car can catch on fire, gasoline IS flammable.

[dieselnutt]

Ford Exploder.

[palebeachbum]

Not good that it exploded, but how fast was that Taurus traveling??? Fast enough that it totally buckled the rear doors of the Crown Vic. Rear passengers, if not front too, probably would have been killed by the impact alone.

[josephtan1818]

you should check the fuel tank location 1st. If you didn't know where is the fuel tank then locate the refuel pipe

[NDW58]

so what about a 1984 crown victoria?

[jtreign9097]

i don't think the the 84 had this problem. the 84 was a tank. same frame as the 89 towncar and it is strong as hell.

[NDW58]

yeah i know . i am restoreing a crown that year and it's a tank but i like it.

[Watcher3223]

They all have the problem, even the 84 Crown Vic and the 89 Town Car.

Town Car, Mark VI, Grand Marquis, and Crown Victoria have been built on the Panther platform (EST'D 1978).

The fuel tank design and placement are largely unchanged with all model years on the Panther.

The design problem is that the fuel tank is located within the crumble zone area just behind the rear axle, rendering it vulnerable to puncture in a rear end collision.

[Watcher3223]

Design changes to mitigate the hazard is the installation of a fuel tank with an internal bladder cell and the installation of a protective shield.

[Watcher3223]

Same problem; the 1984 Crown Victoria is built on the same Panther platform that the current Crown Vics/Grand Marquis are built on.

The design of the fuel tank and its placement are essentially the same.

[MACTORO123]

ITS NOT THE CAR ITS THE SPEED OF IMPACT.

[josephtan1818]

not only just police officer, civil version also affected, if you remember the lincoln town car limo case, 3 girl burned to death inside, driver escape unhurt after that limo rear ended by drunk driver. you should check the below of the car, the fuel tank are vertical mounted. Taurus are not bad to drive, its a ford flagship after crown vic

[crownvicvideos]

Your a fucking idiot. Look at the new impalas, there just as bad. The main cause is from departments drilling equip into the damn tank.

[DASHDOT2]

At least 21 law enforcement officers have burned to death after their Crown Victoria Police Interceptors (patrol cars, or CVPIs) were rear-ended from behind. Hundreds more civilians have died in Ford civilian Crown Victorias, Lincoln Town Cars and Grand Marquis.

[DASHDOT2]

Ford began offering safety shields to Crown Victoria police cars in 2003 after police agencies demanded greater protection following a dozen police deaths. Ford offered this same protection to owners and dealers of Town Car limousines in September 2005, following several the high-profile burning deaths. Ford has not told the general public about the defect,

[DRcaprice]

rofl

[josephtan1818]

now you see, the 1996 taurus is safer or 2003 crown vic?

the 1990-2005 model of crown vic are more likely to burst into flame

[josephtan1818]

oldirontits you better install bladder and/or fire suppression system or you will be barbecued inside when you are being rear ended.

[oldirontits]

i own a crown vic :)

[Fantafare]

Yeah, so do I.

[Bellwestern80]

The Taurus looked repairable, the Crown Vic, not so much.

[josephtan1818]

lol, remember ford pinto? from exploding subcompact car to a exploding police car, these I call it Fire On Rear Denting.

[Fantafare]

remember the corvair, that was a good car too.

[TornadoWarrior1]

wicked

[mrtvman]

cool