Crash Test Rating

brendar · #1 01-18-2007, 08:09 AM

Does anyone have the front and side crash test rating information for a 92 SVX?

AlcyoneDaze · #2 01-18-2007, 08:18 AM

I'm googling it and looking at the NHTSA and getting zilch. They're very safe cars though for their era. Heavy car, durable construction,

Definitly went through crash testing, its strange I cant find anything about it...

Also, read here:
http://www.svx-iw.com/svxiw/road_track/pages/70.html
http://www.svx-iw.com/svxiw/road_track/pages/71.html

brendar · #3 01-18-2007, 08:55 AM

Thank You for responding!!!

TomsSVX · #4 01-18-2007, 12:13 PM

that car couldn't stop because the wheels were on backwards

Tom

dcarrb · #5 01-18-2007, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by TomsSVX

that car couldn't stop because the wheels were on backwards

Tom

They sure are.

Not that I'm any expert, but you can see in that photo (35 MPH crash?) that the cabin structure doesn't appear compromised, the roof and door haven't buckled, and the door glass is intact. Good signs, I'd guess.

dcb

AlcyoneDaze · #6 01-18-2007, 12:43 PM

you're all wrong - that is a picture of an SVX attempting to simultaneously break both the sound and cement barrier.

craftylandshark · #7 01-18-2007, 12:58 PM

I'm sure a lot of us could give personal testimony too lol... not as empirical as what you're looking for but still. My first SVX was a Silver 92, and one night around christmas, coming home from work, I got clocked a good one about 3/4 of the way through an intersection by a drunk driver who didn't even slow down. The hit was on the passenger side near the front end, but it pushed me straight into a telephone pole on the drivers' side. The hit literally cracked the pole in two, flipped it OVER my car such that it landed on and crushed the entire back end of his truck. I came out without a scratch aside from burning eyes for a day or so from the airbag, and my passenger had just a sprained wrist (she grabbed the oh-s*** bar when she saw the car coming at us and got a good jolt when she didn't let go of it). Obviously there was a bit of compression of the cabin, but not nearly so much as you might expect. My main concern in such a wreck - the cutout window bars impaling me - turned out fine. They broke and bent outwards, which seems probably to be by design. I wish I had pictures, but I was too steaming mad at that point to think about that.

In the year on so I've been on the board, I've read about several SVX accidents but I don't think I remember anyone with any serious injuries. After all, the concept it was based on WAS called the "Active Safety Concept"

DreamingOfSpeed · #8 01-19-2007, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by brendar

Does anyone have the front and side crash test rating information for a 92 SVX?

Side impact testing is a very new thing. The testing results given on the SVX dont even correlate to the scale you are used to seeing on current vehicles b/c crash testing was considered private and not something consumers needed to know at the time.