С какой скоростью их разгоняли?

Классная машина

what sad is they made these for almost 30 years and then for some dumb reason they quit and went to these turkish pills of junk that dont last 90,000 miles and are more wire than anything else

I drove past the aftermath of a 2000-2006 Tahoe that rear ended a stopped semi at 70+ MPH while in my 2002 Tahoe. The engine was were the center console was supposed to be. No way the driver survived. To be fair, no vehicle can keep a person alive in a 70 MPH rear end collision with a semi.

Why didn't the crash dummy have a seat belt on?

Back in those days "safety" was merely a suggestion, today it's a mandate.

Lol "40mph is a ultra high speed test". What a crock of shit, that's the lower end of the speed limit in any given multi lane city street.

I was suprised to see both quarters bucked behind the door. Drivers side makes sense but the right side tells of a very weak structure.

Good design the engine/trans dropped down away from occupants. Need that considering the engine is almost inside the cab.

Offset. Nice!

An unrestrained person of any weight in that situation will most likely be a fatality. I would love to see this exact test done...but with seat belts properly used. All in all the car itself held up pretty good it appears.

I was involved in a collision with exactly this kind of car...in fact, right about the same time this test was done, give or take a month. That was my fault, for making a left turn too late with too sluggish a car: A '79 Buick Electra with a valve malfunction. The '87 Celica that hit me took out my right-rear corner, the tail light on that side, and caved in the bumper (an actual bumper in that year) in the right corner. The Celica had its right-front fender sheared off. Being that I was still relatively fresh in driving, I was hating on myself for weeks.

Injury recordings on this unrestrained dummy are fatal, but actually still better, remarkably, than many cars of the 80s where the dummy WAS restrained. Wow

Sure, it failed the FMVSS HIC and other tests, but that wasn't necessarily the car's fault - the dummy was unrestrained. It was set up to fail and to test the dummy itself. If I walk into a solid wall at 5mph, it's going to hurt. If I walk into a solid wall at 35mph, which is happening here because with no seatbelt or restraint I'm still traveling at 35mph even as the car stops, it's going to hurt a hell of a lot more. It's simple physics. You will then eat the steering wheel and probably headbutt the windscreen, sending the HIC off the chart. The same as it would in any car without restraints (before airbags). The 1987 Toyota Celica may still be a deathtrap, but this test didn't tell me that. It just reminded me to wear my seatbelt.

I like the cutout of the hood. Nice to see how the engine compartment braces fold up

Seems most commenters are not taking into account that only lap belts are being used and the vehicle is hitting a solid, immovable object, where the transfer of energy is much greater than if it were crashing into a real world object.

Impressive

Wow... How can someone open the doors after that?!😬 The doors are electric, are they not?

I wonder why the side airbags inflated as well?

This car is famous in movies Always crashed

I don't like that the seat back reclined.

Yaaay

No knees and sides airbags?Why

That steering column movement! Yikes!!! I thought by 1985, they weren't supposed to do that!! Then again, this IS a mid seventies platform.

Well, that sure isn’t going to buff out. Just think, we drove those things and felt safe in them.

Fortunately most of these rusted away before they ever had a chance of wrecking.

Only made Dodge Magnum for 2 yrs... 1978 and 1979.

I would love to see this go against a mid size car of the late 80s/early 90s. And up against one of Fords current van offerings...t bone...rear end and 30% offset on each. The first thing i noticed was the trans crossmember on the LH side the bolts sheared it appears. The frame failed at the better points if it had to fail. I would be curious to see how the 85 F series trucks did in these tests given the frames were very similar up front.

Compared to results you will see from current generation Ford Transit vans doing this same test, this is a horrible result. If nothing else, the seat belt restraint system was woefully inadequate. When you examine this from the viewpoint of what was better than an Econoline from say 1973 and 1965, (This is an 1985 model year van.) the passenger safety improvement is quite substantial. You can see the huge benefit made when ford moved the driver and passenger seating position from in front of the engine and front wheels to behind them. Then adding the additional crush space up front from the preceding generation really improved occupant safety. With the current Transit Van, this impact instead of being a serious injury crash event has become just an annoying inconvenience.

I wonder why the seat belts didn't hold the passengers in place.

That face plant into the steering wheel is going to leave a bruise!

Thanks for posting these. I don't understand the data; is this fatal for the driver? I thought it wasn't wearing a seat belt at first.

My wife and I owned and drove a 1978 Econoline 150 Window Van with the 300 cu in 6 cylinder engine and manual 3 speed with overdrive floor mounted shifter for 150,000 miles!! I'd gladly buy a new one today. The trick is not to run into fixed barriers at 35 mph! Small cars of the day would have been no match for this great van in a crash!

I can bet 80% of people in the world think they'd be safer in one of these than a newer one.

Most pre-1995 vehicles without airbags have sub-par crash protection. Volvo, Mercedes and full size American cars were about the safest you could buy at the time.

When you see both of your dream, vehicles get destroyed.

why worse than other tests of the same one?

Ignition source looks to be the the heat from the exhaust manifolds on the Impala. Hard to tell, kinetic force of stressing metal components could light that much petrol off easily as well.

What are you using to upscale these films? It works quite well.

Ford is Junk

Things did not look well for the dummy driver.

Everything worked together to attack the driver. Great.

Who's here in 2024?

Today I saw a newer generation of this van, a dually! but with no trailer hitch! ???

They don't make them like they used to....and thank God for that.

Thing is a lil tank

My father had a "78 Magnum GT with a 400,4 bbl,HD 727......He used it as a winter work car till the unibody rusted away......Then he junked it out...Kept the engine,trans,fender flares and GT specific rims....Still has all the parts to this day....Good vid.

Remember, this test was made at 25mph. Probably the reason of this test was for other purposes different from the one at 40mph.

What happened to the seats? They reclined back completely. Is that normal?

Volvo is one of the few manufacturers to offer seatbelt pretensioners in all of their vehicles sold in the United States. This important safety feature increases seatbelt tension in warranted situations. It keeps the belted person in place. Don't buy a vehicle without checking to see if this feature is offered in ALL seating positions!