Extreme Crash Test

[simson137]

Wie der BMW den Volvo WEGFETZT!

[FACP07]

I don't think the insurance company will total em, do you?



[Streamliner009]

I want one rc car that big

[IIMicah]

no bettah news for the beemah

[Deltari09]

LMAO!!! "Inertia Wins" at 1:36 ...look at the volvo's headlamp!!!

[sideswipecp88]

when toys collide(not really)

[Artyfil]

was it 60 mph combined or was each car going 60? i know that's a huge difference but I can't really tell lol

[marsvol1231]

@Artyfil both cars travling at 60

[nvboy2000]

O don't forget mitchelle obama in the red car trunk!!!

[GarGPS]

Tiff Needell is a ledgend

[stonee206]

I want one of those remotes! It would be fun =)

[rahulvinal]

put Gorge Bush in the BMW and Osama in the red car..good bye terrorism lol

[xox945]

cool

[alex199987]

remote control car???????????omg

[escalade4]

Such destruction. The only thing I could think of when watching this is...

WHAT THE FU-BOOM!

[hajanka]

i have had a similar accident before :p

LOL

[NobbeJr]

It is a 960, it has chrome trim

[becky334]

its a 940 you see it on the lights and body. the 850 has shorther body than the 940.

[copymaser20]

why the hell would someone wanna go that fast and not see another car going the same speed infrontof you. I mean someone in real life driving a car that fast on the autobond would slam on the brakes or steer away.

[Lordi79]

would be about the same if you lose control on faster street and steer into oncoming traffic

[rahulvinal]

its a crash test you idiot! they want to find out the strength of the cars and how much pressure the bodies and interiors and travelers can take..for that to work in full captivity, its a good idea to have a straight on collision!..to find out whether its safe for morons like you to drive..

[legioner9]

@copymaser20 : This kind of crashes kill in my land over 2000!!!! people every year ( the most of Europe) because on an open road between two towns there is no separation between the traffic and on coming traffic... And chances are ( > 80 %) you wont steer away to avoid in time the crash ...

[AJ8988]

BMW wins

[bushputz]

AJ8988:

"BMW wins"

No, they both lost

[AJ8988]

lol

[rahulvinal]

lol

[NFreund]

Hm...well...they both were at apx. 110 km/h...that means the hit each other with 220 km/h!!!! And modern cars WOULDN'T have a better chance....no car has a chance at 220 Km/h...and everyone would brake or get into a field or something before it gets to this...

[stonehe8d]

wow nice

[Ginko26]

That would have killed the passenger in both cars.

[sixty4bitdiablo]

actually these cars are European, so the drivers would have been toast...

[andolint]

lol.I dont really think american cars are safer.

[VolvoDuett67]

That is a Volvo 960.

[olssonII]

940

[VolvoDuett67]

No. look at the hood, thats not a 940 hood.

[olssonII]

OK, I looked a bit closer at the clip and I think you may be right. My bad.

[TheStig147]

940

[semiliteratedgod]

omg

[1972volkswagen]

i know a way you can prevent accidents. as john muir says in how to keep your volkswagen alive: "If we all constantly drive as if we were strapped to the front of the car like Aztec sacrifices so we'd be the first thing hit, there'd be a helluva lot less accidents"

[Plataea]

Lol!

[bullet50000]

what the hell was with the RR Phantom in the beginning between 00:13 and 00:14

[quickeye78]

I wonder: why am i thinking about a Rolls Royce Phantom?... Oh yeah! I saw that frame between seconds 00:13 and 00:14....

[DaRemy]

No! It"s not the same like hitting a wall at 120 Miles per hour because both cars share the energy. You can prove that if you want on a physics internet site.

[darzrav]

No one would have survived that. If you were not crushed you would have died cause of the roll if not you would have died of shock...

[skurfja36]

that's hitting a brick wall at 120 miles and hour.. damn

[patkoelling]

no, its like hitting a deformable barrier at 120 mph

[skurfja36]

your right, i'm wrong. congrats

[jeid3]

volvos suck and as they say vovlo drivers suck and its so tru

[markim2321]

Its the 940...

[orsonbeckham]

Volvo the best!

[bordin4life]

DAMN those rc cars are expensive!

[erik1980]

Volvo maintained most of the compartment cage, whereas he said the BMW had crumpled all the way through. People probably would have lived in the Volvo, but certainly not the driver.

[8MunchenBayern8]

uhhh no.

[tomcatfranks]

Yea!! Top Gear!!!

[adoukalver242]

i want to be a car tester when i get a degree in college....

[xundaman]

this is fifth gear, not top gear

[melmel2228]

looks sort of like the grey car went through the red one... from one veiw at least. Thats scary that the type of car you buy might eventually end or save your life! even though ur driving it...

[Petaflom]

Is this from Top Gear? I love that show, and that looks like one of the guys on it. I need to find the video where the other guy tries to destroy a Porsche 911.

[mAJORDEE]

It's the same as hitting a stationary CAR (unrestrained of course) at 120mph. Not a theoretically solid, unmoveable wall.

[kiloton5352]

the Beamer looked better off then the Volvo

[viddicake]

its fake, you can see the remote controls

[bazaron]

I am not sure if you were paying attention when they said at hte begining of the documentarty that hte cars are remote controled...

[themember]

lol, idiot...

[Ichirakuu]

rofl, idiot...

of course there are remote controls, you think they are going to put people in that shit to purposely kill eachother just to do a crash test?

[pedersonaa]

freakin sweet i live for videos like these

wow those cars were completly demolished

[cyclepsychodad]

I agree with the idea that the crash is similar to one car hitting a solid wall as long as both vehicles where similar in weight.  If you had one vehicle that was one half the mass of the 940, like a ford punto or a rover mini, the results would have been drastically different. The smaller vehicle would still have to absorb half the energy of the entire collision, as if the smaller car was going 90 into a brick wall and the 940 going 30 into a brick wall.

[DestinysJester]

Sigh. Two at 60 is the same as one at 60 into a wall. That stationary wall will push the car back with the same force it hit it at, the same as getting hit by a similar vehicle at the same speed.

[Xerzio]

why the sky is blue¡¡¡¡¡???????????

[Doggchop]

The refraction of light through the earth's atmosphere

[GBilbo07]

The bema plowwed through the volvo lol

[miredian]

Is this a drivers ed film? Where are the watermelons that represents the drivers head? Prolly on ebay "great fixer upper!"

[compu85]

I believe that was the point.

[Intersonus903]

Another thing to consider.

If both cars were traveling at 60 MPH when they both collided with each other, then that would be equivalent to one car crashing into a stationary object at 120 MPH. I do not believe there is any car capable of allowing the passengers to survive in that kind of collision.

[Jubbbbb]

You are wrong! A head on collision does not mean the impact is as strong as the combined speed. In a head on crash the forces and the damage to the vehicles is actually the same as if each vehicle were to hit a solid concrete wall. Anyone who doubts this logic need only imagine a collision between two identical vehicles, where a very large sheet of tissue paper across the road barely moves as the vehicles collide precisely at that point. How can that sheet of tissue cause twice the damage?

[Intersonus903]

1. You've essentially said the same thing I've said.

2. Two vehicles colliding head on, both travelling at 60 MPH, does approximate a single car collision into a solid object at 120 MPH. The higher the speed, actual or combined, the greater the inertial energy that must be displaced through a collision.

[AenillCPaj]

The reason the tissue paper survives is that the vehicles impart each other's energy through it and into the other vehicle. Each vehicle imparts it's energy into the other vehicle at the same time. You are pretty much fucked in a 60MPH headon into a stationary object anyways, especially in vehicles that old, so another car at 60MPH replacing that stationary object only doubles thine problems.

[zadeh79]

This isn't true hitting a solid stationary object at 60 mph is the same as hitting a similarly sized vehicle, with similar speed, head on. It has to do with the conservation of momentum.

[Intersonus903]

The kind of collision we saw is what would be described as a frontal offset. This kind of collision is actually much worse than a full frontal collision. This is because the impact energies are being acted upon on only about half of the vehicle's structure instead of the full structure bearing the brunt.

[silvertejpsmaffian]

It's a 960 (91-95)

[felsner1]

Correct.

[okieman1200]

That is not a Volvo 850. That is a Volvo 900 series, probably a 940.