Fifth Gear: Volvo 2020 Protective Car Plan

Throwback Thursday clip from series 17, Jonny is taking a look at Volvo’s crash test centre which claims to have a car created that will stop crashes by the year 2020.
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[@Allias1337]

The same S60 which I had, saved my life at 150KPH. I had only a scratch from seat belt. The car has EVERYTHING broken after this accident, there is no one single part which is in good condition, but I am alive. 😊 Thank you Volvo!

[@dildonicbeast3738]

Arc A why did you even go 150kph not being rude

[@laurentmichaelsolderer4931]

TheNotebook Animators he probably lives in germany there you are allowed to deive this fast and there 150kph isn’t fast ;)

[@Allias1337]

That's true, I am living in Germany and there are no speed limits, 150kph is nothing. In Poland you can drive max.140kph but everyone is driving 160-200 😂

[@taunuslunatic404]

AA I don't believe you.

[@davewsh8434]

A A Volvo does really care about their safety.

[@scigh-on1355]

Its 2020 now i wonder how many people have died in a volvo this year. The edit will be the result. I foud the XC90 has no deaths. Well done volvo

[@blu_melon4228]

well, I know what to do tonight.

[@saully.6969]

Wezy MH good research

[@mak2855]

Dying from corona in a volvo doesn't count

[@arewbund2886]

@@blu_melon4228 🤔 and what would that be? 🧐

[@megaspray4606]

Volvo: No one will be hurt in our cars Me: Are you challanging me!!??

[@ThatWasherNerd]

At 3:35 you can see the seatbelt pretensioners swing into action. Very neat.

[@edgarcarvalho2567]

If some years ago I wasn't drive a volvo s40 on that rainny and stormy night when I drove over a tree at 120km h.. I'll never forget the impact and how strong was the hit.. But he car didn't even got out of the street, nothing happened!! Great car.

[@martij30]

Volvo. For life.

[@dumitrascuclaudiu7097]

Just Luke Bosch!)):👍

[@woodstommy]

Grandpa get a Ford

[@luke59227]

@@woodstommy What?

[@Charlienator3000]

@@woodstommy get a dick.

[@shaneirle]

What's up with the sound

[@8bitter696]

Egactly sound man went to top gear😂

[@mrfriz4091]

My first Volvo was a 1963 122S with three point safety belts. I think Volvo started using them in 1957. Got into the habit of using them then and still do now. I often put on the belt when I back the car out the garage to wash it.

[@Biarritz535i]

i trust volvo

[@virsiloskojos]

i too

[@arewbund2886]

Same.

[@t5tuned705]

Volvo = Tank

[@ianclaudio777]

We have to understand that every car have a limitation of security. For this, avoid accidents is always the best thing to do

[@bobjohnson1587]

Yes, stay home! Lol

[@spythers]

Starting with the 3 point seatbelt, we all drive a Volvo every day...

[@98Blacklightning]

That’s deep

[@Helperbot-2000]

Always nice to think about the invention being made open for anyone else to use, Volvo thought about eceryones safety and not just their customers. Thank you Nils Bohlin!

[@bobjohnson1587]

@@Helperbot-2000 Nils probably saved as many lives as any other human in history!

[@robertl2856]

Wonder if they still make this claim ?

[@nermind02]

Robert Lloyd Yes, they do but about a few months ago, a woman (she was drunk) died when Volvo's selfdriving taxi crashed. But I still think they are going to make Volvo as safe as possible.

[@supersonicmixes]

Nermin Djapo That was Uber’s Fault, Not Volvo. It was Uber’s self driving system that stopped working, and the driver wasn’t paying attention.

[@nermind02]

IamTheStig03 Thats true but still; she died and everyone says its Volvo's fault but it isn't. I think the same as you; its Über's fault and not Volvo's.

[@perhougaard3536]

It has recently been revealed that there have been no UK deaths in the XC90 since 2004 ... - So it looks like they actually are about to reach their goal.

[@supersonicmixes]

Per Hougaard That will be a big achievement.

[@alifloydtv]

2020 sounds like it's going to be an amazing year, sign me up!

[@Mauzy0x00]

I still say Volvo is the best car manufacturer to date.

[@aidan1585]

Not best, but one of the safest, if not the safest.

[@north5103]

@@aidan1585 Honestly theres an arguement that it's the best, especially when you look at their history and how many of their innovations are now common place or even legally required.

[@aidan1585]

@@north5103 I know

[@gtr8057]

And I was excited for this technology....

[@MrBlirre]

Just two days ago, 29 august, a swedish newspaper reported af a accident at a roadwork site. A car had crashed at high speed in to a safetytruck, a so called TMA with a crashbarrier. Rescuepersonel cut the roof of the car to get the driver out and take him to the hospital, driver was ok wthi minor injurys. The car was a volvo v90, and what i know, it chould be equipt with autobrake as standard, so why did it crash into a stationary truck? All these safety systems in new cars are a good thing, but they are not idiotproof.

[@Xanthopteryx]

City Safety on V90 can (in dry road conditions) stop the car up to 80 km/h, at a stationary car. But, if you go faster, the car will not be able to stop completely but it will reduce the speed. And, we do not know HOW he crashed - did he swerve late? Was it slippery? Did he drive like an idiot (most probably, because no one driving as you should could ever miss and hit a TMA-truck!). And nothing is fail safe - nothing. Especially not humans. I know one guy - travelling in an urban area and suddenly a kid runs out in the street. He didn't even know what happened and the car stopped, avoiding to hit the child. That Is Awesome!

[@hakankalayli]

ın 2012 S60 İİHS small overlap test the result is perfect

[@F1_Nathan]

It's 2021 watching this mighty Lord.

[@s1lenttoad422]

I think it’s quite hard for anyone to determine what may happen in the future...🤔 2020 is an ambitious target. By the way, go watch Fully Charged!

[@starraidz791]

This comment couldn’t have been more accurate lmao

[@usefulpineapple4538]

2020 sucks

[@tomjoe9997]

I put this to the test. I may be missing half my body parts Now, but I'm not dead. Well done Volvo

[@vikingpotet]

Well, here we are in 2020. And I think that they are gonna nail this

[@aidan8117]

2020 is here...

[@patrickwraith2387]

Go back 2020 is shit

[@alsahili]

المجد لأمان فولفو

[@fields1]

Why does the audio sound so terrible??

[@jugostran]

What if my car sets fire? Do I dismount?

[@username_username_5611]

Nick Stalburg well no the car has a strong roof you just need to get out as fast as you can and if you do not have a strong roof you will get fully crushed

[@g.espichan]

I had a Volvo ad coincidently (or not)

[@s1lenttoad422]

Broberg, great name

[@UnipornFrumm]

1 MORE YEAR

[@TommyCullen-VacuumConnisour]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand NOW!

[@dallysinghson5569]

Ah, one of their new Volvos that so few people can afford to buy that you'll expect fewer crashes!

[@billnye9611]

Lol Top Gear got access to this centre twenty years ago, ten before fifth gear.

[@nikolanikola8543]

Bill Nye *Center

[@blazeclarke]

@@nikolanikola8543 no, it's centre. One is a type of building or establishment, one is the middle of something

[@nikolanikola8543]

@@blazeclarke CENTER

[@blazeclarke]

@@nikolanikola8543 are you American? I'm English. We have different spellings, that might be the reason for the confusion.

[@nikolanikola8543]

@@blazeclarke No, I'm not American, I'm actually Croatian and most of the people here speak English as a second language and I never heard of someone spelling "Center" like "Centre"... Maybe I just wasn't paying attention!

[@filmopfil]

wow

[@LiamW-]

Well, we're here...

[@patrickwraith2387]

Go back 2020 is shit

[@Kevin-ee6pp]

It's 2020 where is the car???

[@zakariaahmed3222]

Volvo for life.. that's why I love Volvo💙...keep going 🤜

[@CaydenLudlow]

DONT GIVE ONE TO HAMMOND

[@existable_yt]

0:12 is that a challenge???

[@mohammedhussnain4322]

He used a top gear thing

[@chaoszombie9995]

Well now it’s not so secret is it...

[@CalvinJacobStevenson]

Wow!

[@riwayatofficial]

VOLVO IS THE BEST FOR 2020 and after

[@darrensugiarto8583]

Idk how they can prove it yet because of COVID.😂

[@mr.invisible-gz3en]

Brah my 2004 lexus sc430 crashed at 220kph and not a single scratch was on me

[@babydriver6473]

r/thathappened

[@UnderTheRadar1976]

I was in a head on crash in 1999 volvo s40 at 60 mph and walked away from it

[@gabesmath105]

Bullshit! The A pillar shifted at 40 mph in IIHS. Unless you had full frontal then maybe.

[@UnderTheRadar1976]

@@gabesmath105 yep I went right through the side of the other car mine was t4 much more solid that the standard s40 and it cost £49,000 new

[@02838647]

Fantastic. What about when an Aistralian road train decides to park on you?

[@Allias1337]

Tom Osborne www.abcnyheter.no/nyheter/norge/2018/06/13/195405883/sjelden-man-far-innblikk-i-en-slik-ulykke-pa-naert-hold

[@02838647]

Arc A Nice. I appreciate the quality of the crash worthiness in this situation. An Aussie road train probably weighs 3 times as much and has a big steel 'bull bar' on the front. Nice result to crash though.

[@Allias1337]

This Volvo XC70 has destroyed this small road train :) Volvo driver had no scratch too.

[@Allias1337]

But with this big australian or canadian road train I think that volvo passengers should be still alive. Hard to say.

[@themaxeffect9175]

Anyone else watching this in 2020

[@shitchef4853]

I can just imagine the meeting when ford bought Volvo... People worried about their jobs etc, and then they get told: Here's a shitload of money, make your car's even safer and have fun while you're doing it. Oh and we will build you a fucking big warehouse as a playground 🤣

[@AlvinShen]

it’s 2020

[@robin4046]

How old is this video????

[@RaspberryCai]

Minanshu M about 75 years old.

[@HurrDurrzz]

It was shot in 2010

[@MetaReplication]

About 100,000,000,000 years old.

[@b.war08]

There are still many crashes on the road

[@roderickmoose7756]

Well, it’s 2020

[@kazemikoyoki8459]

2 years

[@babydriver6473]

2 years passed

[@ilovekfc2]

By 2020? REALLY bold claim but these cars are improving fast I’d say 2030/2035 is when we will se the perfect tech

[@Xanthopteryx]

No one has been killed in an XC90 in the UK. The car was introduced there in 2004. 15 years and NO ONE! I think that is, amazing!

[@akj2387]

@@Xanthopteryx No one has been killed in a Bugatti Chiron in the UK... Now lemme explain, the XC90 costs 52 grand and isn't even in the top 50 most sold cars. If it sold like a Ford Focus, I'm certain that we'd see deaths.

[@Xanthopteryx]

@@akj2387 Well... Over 50.000 XC90 has been sold in the UK. And still, no one died in an XC90. It is not 1. It is 0! And yes, safety development cost money, but this has been a success since a new Volvo is the darn safest production car you can buy. And the new XC40 is even more safe. Just look how they designed the structure of a Volvo. It is amazing! And down to the smallest detail, to make it safer. As an example: Did you know what a car have a pyrotechnic device at the top (..and that is placed at the bottom) of the seat belt? Where the reel is attached, to tension the belt in an accident. A Volvo have TWO pyro devices on the seat belt - one at the top like all other but also one at the bottom (you know, between the door and the seat where it s attached). Why? Because it is safer... It gives a better tension on the belt and that minimises the risk of injury. There are a lot of those small details that make a huge different.

[@gabrielwhite3890]

@@akj2387 it's sold just under a million XC90s and has 0 deaths so it is very impressive

[@dallysinghson5569]

That's not really that amazing because it just goes to show if you're rich you can buy safety- what would be amazing if Volvo could do this on. the cheap thus wiping outnthencomoetition

[@jordanrader9281]

oh you just wait i dare some one to take the hill fall challange at 160mh off the fucking CLiff steep as devils staircase

[@ChefMcToastEM]

in 2020, no one has died in a volvo but a lot were killed in a pandemic.

[@kysersoze3632]

If an XC90 crashes into you, you are dead

[@user-hk1dx3yz9c]

Итак, 2020 год....

[@tomsberzins1307]

Wel its the 25 december idk if in 2020 ther won't be crashes

[@Xanthopteryx]

Crashes yes - but their vision is that no one should be killed or seriously injured in a new Volvo.

[@pong.o]

It's 2020 now!

[@malorkie]

Didn’t Volvo limit their cars top speed at around 120km/h? No wonder that they make this claim

[@bobjohnson205]

Actually it was more like 180 or 190.

[@Lawmbax]

0:22 who’s robot is this bruh?!

[@mistabionerd8813]

Unless their new 2020 models are boosted in safety over the 2015 models, a few people have already died in their flagship XC90s

[@MetaReplication]

See you in 2020, VOLVO bitches.

[@celesterossi733]

I am from 2023 they did not stop crashes

[@oprahwinfrey878]

Yeah I was in a rollover with a Volvo. What nearly killed me also saved my life?

[@chaoszombie9995]

Yes.

[@samjewellery3336]

High Speed driving, drink driving,sleepy driving definitely kill the passengers.car can't help if you are a irresponsible driver.

[@hectorvazquez7929]

I have been driving a Volvo S80 2009 model and I’m still alive. No accidents.

[@sr76pablux]

TESLA is the reference

[@dallysinghson5569]

If Tesla scores better it's because of it's battery rather than anything else...

[@akj2387]

@@dallysinghson5569 Tesla is just more rigid, doesn't mean it's safer. For the side pole test on Teslas, although there was less intrusion, the forces were higher.

[@CasualMicb]

Yeah, Its 2021

[@nintendoatarikiller]

That's why u buy a saab

[@jugostran]

R.I.P Saab

[@bobkin611]

I'm sorry but two cars going 64kph are not gonna impact at the combined speed of 125kph. That's not how that works. Newtons Third Law. This is why Top Gear is better.

[@spycats1374]

Breaking news Tesla cars set on fire

[@cerberus276gaming6]

If they are so persistent with their claims, why don't they sit in the cars during crash testing to prove it?

[@mikkelkirketerp4884]

Because it'll still hurt you. Are you stupid?

[@Larry-Lobster]

You can still suffer broken bones, bruising, etc. The whole point is to still be a alive. How are you this stupid

[@matthewhetes9965]

Yeah I laughed

[@alainhanko3219]

Varan Čo musí urobiť Range Rover Veral ako si si nemohol robiť nemohol si robiť keď si si nemohol ako predstaviť to opíšem mamky potom budem písať mamky To moja mamka mi dala ako telefón ale nový ale nový keď nemôže nemohol ako predstaviť Keď Volvo XC60 mám

[@dragonbutt]

Its almost 2020 and people have already had fatal accidents in these cars

[@CarThings___]

Dragon Butt cite at least 12 academic sources

[@narancs5]

Well, Saab has achieved that nobody dies in their newly sold cars. I doubt Volvo can manage that but still, great target.

[@Vex22778]

😊 because saab has no cars

[@TommyCullen-VacuumConnisour]

n

[@alainhanko3219]

Čo musí robiť Range Rover vera Čo musí robiť No čo ako si si robiť keď nie si nemohol na neho si si mohol ako prísť keď si si nemohol dať potom si si mohol dať aj vo e 160 160 taxi si 160 Volvo E106 je Sliač hovorí 160 160 160

[@paanchotsgt6393]

the 999 like

[@ericzhang3016]

My car Cybertruck smashed a Volvo XC60

[@finnwilliamson6139]

Hallway delicate really excuse indeed relationship sharply shift oppose shall organization another.

[@leweee]

Finn Williamson what?

[@MetaReplication]

Moe Lester IKR!

[@HovanCarlo]

First comment

[@99ron30]

There not real Volvos anymore. Chinese Hybrid weak designs. Bring back square cars with 4 speed Aisin automatic box and strong engines.

[@karperman14]

Noooo no automatics pleaaaaase xD I absolutely HATE automatics..

[@99ron30]

@@karperman14 How can you hate auto's? They make life easier and good auto gearboxes last a long time. No clutch, dual mass fly wheel, synchromesh, clutch bearing etc to go wrong. Ok if you want a fun sporty car then manual is better, but for daily driving auto wins :)

[@fredwiley3731]

99 ron Americans only want automatic transmissions, but they don't like 4 cyl engines in these heavy safe Volvo cars. I am reading about noisy engines in the recent Volvos. Stick with 5 or 6 cylinder but I don't think that will happen, A premium car like Volvo deserves better. quality engine.

[@99ron30]

@@fredwiley3731 Theres nothing wrong with 4 cylinder engines though. Most Saabs were 4 cylinder, Jeep Cherokee, most Honda and Toyotas. Most cars the world over are probably 4 cylinder. I think its just the old American way of thinking, maybe 4 cylinders were weak in the 60's, but now they are eco, reliable, strong powerful engines.

[@Larry-Lobster]

No one wants a square car. Hideous stuff

[@hardcorehardo]

Because nobody will buy their cars lululul

[@mipmipmipmipmip]

I wonder, most volvo drivers I see on the road drive like complete wankers... maybe that’s why they are the perfect use case for autonomous driving?

[@mistabionerd8813]

Why? PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY DIED. Of what value are 12 (and why specifically 12) academic sources when score claim has been shown not true

[@Dunelms-Own]

It's 2020 and Volvo is no longer the safest car manufacturer (It's Tesla)

[@mcglovera]

False