Audi crash... Wow!

[onewhippedpuppy]

Dibs on the driver's side Recaro seat!

[Z-man]

Originally Posted by Christien

I'm sure Audi would rather not have these pictures displayed in advertising, but IMO this is some of the best advertising you could ever get for a car - look at how intact the driver's area is - no crumpling anywhere. That's amazing, and shows what good engineering can do.

I don't think it is the best advertising from a safety point of view. Why? What caused the accident? (Sudden acceleration, perhaps? - I joke, I joke...) .... it couldn't be the driver, since, of course, all drivers are expert drivers (in their opinion...) so it must be the car maker's fault the car was torn in half.

Seriously - especially in the US, you don't see too many ads featuring crashed cars and the survival story. Folks would rather be told that the car they are going to buy will NOT CRASH at all, even if there's an idiot behind the wheel. Yes, it is an unrealistic view, but that's what people want to believe, in my opinion.

-Z-man.

[Heel n Toe]

That's my uncle Frans. He is quite the aggressive driver and loves to blast around those country roads near his farm in the mornings.

I kept telling him he should keep the traction control on, but noooooOOOOOOoooooo... he always has to be flamboyant and edgy.

[livi]

Escaping such a crash virtually unharmed must be quite the revelation. Even I might have turned religious and I donīt say that lightly. He should go for the lottery next! Canīt lose with that luck.

[billwagnon]

First person to say "that'll buff out" is a registered idiot.

are you crazy? that will not buff out.

However, my old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.

[KevinP73]

I'd be willing to bet a bratwurst and a beer that some a**wipe will eventually buy the remains from an insurance salvage and take to some bodyshop asking if they can fix it for cheap if he supplies all the parts. (or does that just happen to me?)

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by 911pcars

At the velocity it was going at the moment of impact, I think it has more to do with luck than engineering. I doubt the Audi engineers made just the passenger side a sacrificial part of the chassis. The tree just happened to intrude at a most convenient location in the vehicle.

The passenger side air bag wouldn't have deployed unless the system had detected someone in the seat.

The driver is a lucky man. Can't say that about his passenger.

Sherwood

If there were a passenger, where are the pieces of them? They would bleed at least a little.

Audi is pretty famous for electrical glitches, that seems a more plausible explanation

[911pcars]

Yeah. Let's hope there wasn't a passenger. The wreckage goes to show SRS (supplementary restraint systems) can only provide so much collision protection.

Sherwood

[aigel]

This is why I always hold back when driving on tree lined roads. Hitting a tree, even at relatively low speed on the order of 50 mph, is often deadly. That accident may not have been at extreme speeds at all. 60 mph will cut that car up like a can of sardines if it comes flying the right way ...

George

[Tobra]

When I was in HS I remember a guy who killed himself in a 930 right over by Cal Expo hitting a tree