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Originally posted by DANNOV
I'm surprised at how well the passenger compartment holds up in a head-on crash on the new C5 Corvettes. I wonder if all that fiberglass absorbs a lot of the impact and breaks up, thus dissipating the energy of the crash. From these photos it seems like the new Vette is a safe car. Of course, some of the really bad wrecks are hard to identify. and this is really a small sample.
In the past Corevettes had the highest fatality/accident rate of any American car, but no one was really sure if it was because the Corvette body was made of fiberglass or because their owners were driving faster than they normally would in their Cadilacs.
The new Corvette is much safer mainly due to the hyrdoformed steel frame rails which make up the major portion of the unit body. Fiberglass is poor at absorbing energy, making our cars much safer overall.
Old 02-01-2002, 04:55 AM
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