Fifth Gear Crash-test Volvo 940 estate vs Renault Modus

Hehehe a 3 years old Volvo would beat the shit out of that Renault

I have been thinking a bit about this video.
I got the point that 5th gear want to show the difference between the old school and the new school of safety.

But would not it be fair to make the test with a C30 vs a 940 or viceversa an R19 vs Modus?
That would show the difference.

But showing Modus to be safer than a Volvo (whatever old it is) is a bit off. The funny thing is that 99% of the safety design in that crappy French shit was developed by Volvo or SAAB. :-)

Newton would be shocked if he saw this

Rubberaura, you seem to have come to the same conclusion that I did. In addition to the energy being channeled around the sides and subframe as the narrater claims, the passengers internal organs would have absorbed quite a bit of the energy during the rapid deceleration. Crumple zones dissipate energy without as much rapid deceleration.

Talk about apples vs. oranges.

Totally agree...

I mean, comparing that new Ranault to the very old Volvo is very unfair. That 940 was one of the safest cars of it's time.

Make a test between the new Volvo V70 and the same Renault and the Renault is... whatever...

STILL thoug! notice how that OLD Volvo is still quite safe against the safest car in europe of 2004!

Well done Modus!! :)

Except that this video proves you wrong on all counts. The Modus blatantly wins over a 1992 Volvo, so you are outright lying. A modern Volvo probably would beat the Modus, you'd certainly hope so given how much more expensive a Volvo would be. The point of the video is that age is more important than size or price - the tools just didn't exist to understand collisions properly in the 1980s.

This program is made by a private company, not the government. What possible motive would there be to bias it? Also, large cars do not take significantly more road space, because the gap between cars is much larger than the cars themselves, and that is dependent on speed only. Finally this does not claim that a new small car is safer than a new large car - generally they are not - only that 12 years of safety engineering progress is much more useful than being a bit bigger and heavier.