pioneering time is over

Considering the other contemporary cars... there was not one to lift the other. But it's really around 1972/73 that it got really bad, for everyone, we're talking about recycled scrap metal of marine origin.

No lies (except for the accelerated images of the dynamic tests^^). As far as crash tests are concerned, we can obviously only compare tests that are identically organized. A SM has no reason to do worse than a car that is contemporary to it, and that's all we ask. The impressive deformations are what they are... an absorption of energy, the only thing is to master these deformations as well as possible, that's the (almost perpetual) goal of this kind of research, and it's much more desirable than older vehicles that are clearly too rigid and that keep a look confirming their prejudged robustness... and which in fact kill all their occupants of internal lesions because of the too brutal deceleration at the time of a shock... assuming that the passengers have their seatbelt, which is very rare if not never the case, after all in these not so distant times one dies also much ejected from the car or of a simple fatal cranial shock in the car... and not needing a big shock nor of high speed

these cars were completely in tune with their time. The 2cv has a lot more engineering than its apparent rusticity suggests. The platform is not just made any old way. Of course, there is no question of comparing these cars with what will be done later, especially from the 80s on. Concerning the 2cv, a test from the 70's which I don't remember the origin, had made equivalent crash tests between a 2cv, a vw and a Fiat... 126 I think... the 2cv has nothing ridiculous then. That the owners maintain their vehicles badly or that the repairers are incompetent is another problem... concerning the DS, if it was impossible to dose the braking very finely it is thus that there was a real problem, most certainly of bleeding of the brake circuits. The rest is caricature, if not preconceived ideas... or comments from people who are not used to this control with just a force to apply.