1987 Toyota Celica Coupe Into Load Cell Barrier Frontal Crash Test (35 Mph | 50% Overlap)

[@sw2092]

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.

[@mikel2887]

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

[@joec1774]

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

[@aloysiusbelisarius9992]

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.

[@ronbrock6153]

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.

[@donw3912]

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.

[@mexicanspec]

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

[@Timico1000]

Offset. Nice!