Crash Test Month: Flipping A Convertible 

I agree. Do you like Fifth Gear? Please watch Euro NCAP.

+Tholaran97 yea. same here.

+Tholaran97 many typical rollovers would likely catapult it into the air. lets assume you drive 220 km/h and then hit some grass on the side of the highway. I remember a case where a car was trown 200m trough the air due to the high speed! but they landed luckily and survived..

+Till Schwenke Well... atleast the suspension was there to save a life

+Till Schwenke 200m? As in over two football fields? Hard to believe.

+Salim Love 200 meters not 200 yards.... Still way to much, I think he meant 20 meters

Haha.. i like

+Tyrone Ross It's sad but i laughed my ass off at the video when i saw that... specially at 0:13 and 0:19! XD

+Tyrone Ross +10000 Likes :D made me laughing so much

I thought Crash Test Dummies goes "hmmmm....mmmm...mmmmm..mmmmmm", Please someone understand that reference

I laughed too especially with the mini

Well, what's the difference? I mean, catapulted onto the roof and rolling. Same thing

@@big_-guy102 LOL, it is not the same. Rollover has much less energy than a catapult...

@@DashCamSerbia not if I cause the rollover

@@big_-guy102 It will just roll multiple times, with much less energy going into the A-pillars compared to the single hit after a catapult.

@@DashCamSerbia Suvs just roll for no reason at 10 km/hr, you'll probably also jump if you manage to flip your sports car from hitting an obstacle on the highway, not just peacefully roll to the side.

Glitchy Extra Ggvb

Wobbly car SUV's have made The Middle East trillions - per year.

@@ronaldckrausejr7762 What are you talking about?

After 2 years you're getting a reply lmao, thank you

Thank you

I think people who doesn't really understand how a car rolls over happen should actually watch the first bit

Thankyou

was gonna say my dad crashed in an old escort and the roll bar did save him and I am looking at an old rover 214 (same design as the 216) it has that large beam level with the wind shield that is behind the driver seats and in front of the rear seats. Life saver. As for the front impact i'd be scared of the a frame and bulk head giving out and a metro like situation with the rover and the escort too tbh though. Those older cars had a strong bonnet but week cab and the driver could be crushed inside its frightening.

I owned one lol.

@@cutterbacon I had it for 8 years lol

@@Adikova97 Mine had 2 roofs lol.

Its because a lot of customers complain about the "ugly" look of theses cages, and wanted "streamline roadster" again... so Peugeot and some others cars manufacturers listen theses customers, and reforced the windshield pilar, but its wasn't enough, so few years laters thoses anti-roll devices cameback. I've got a 2004 Ford StreetKA, and i'm glad to have a anti-roll device behind my head, just in case !

I'm currently own my first convertible (a 2004 Ford StreetKA) and i'm agree, everyone should enjoy at least once in a live... if you choose a protected convertible (with a anti-roll device) of course !

Haha i didnt notice xD

I had an Impala convertible and uh the video is the reason why I hesitate driving that

What u rolled over

Peugeots of that era with torsion beam suspension did like a bit of lift off oversteer which could slam you sideways into the kerb and roll over as a result

@@energymc22 - The 306 ( like it's Citroen ZX cousin ) had passive rear wheel steering built in to the rear torsion beam - it was a much safer handling car then previous Peugeot's that did suffer from lift of oversteer when the driver ran out of talent mid corner. The ZX & 306 where also the 2 cars the Top Gear magazine road testers couldn't get to spin out when they did the big hot hatch group test back in the 90s.

maybe they just forgot reverse was a thing, good point tho

there are 5 speeds where reverse is on the same spot as first ;)

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Um, count again....there are 5 gears. 1-4 and reverse is the fifth. Just because it propels the car in the opposite direction as the others doesn't mean it's not a gear

Thomas McCarter there are 5 gears but you don't include reverse when you say what speed the gearbox is. If you are in 5th gear you would have 6 different gears, one being reverse. A 5-speed transmission has, again, 6 gears.

Man, that's cold. Considering how she died. You one ice cold socialist.

I'd feel bad about her if she wasn't riding in the back of a limo racing underground with no seatbelt. The only person in that car wearing a seatbelt lived.

+aluisious Edgiest man in the world!

Joe Mancuso Next time you want to call someone out, don't be too timid to spell the word correctly.

Good job!

Maybe, maybe not. But this can be remedied on a truck with a rollbar which is even more in place style wise on the truck than the convertible.

First comment

The windscreen was meant to be able to support 5 cars. Obviously a little lie.

Lol

And neither would going without one. All in all, it's a lose-lose scenario

+Matt Smith You're still required to wear seat belts by law.

MrSupercar55 Where in my comment am I talking about what the law requires you to do? I'm talking about what will get you killed, and that's both.

MrSupercar55 What are you rambling about? I'm not the one driving the convertible.

+MrSupercar55 I'll remember that when someone else hits me at 75 mph "oh yea man just cause I'm not driving dumb I'll be fine!!" fuck you kapeesh????

Lol

No, Bugatti grand sport would be better

What about KTM X-Bow

Now it is those Europeans that love driving those SUVs and Crossdressers.

rip

HikikomoriDev 2 years late to answer but yes those are real sounds. i flipped my car 8 times on march 16th 2020 about 3 weeks ago. survived with minimal whiplash and post concussive syndrome. the sounds and memory are more scary to me so i’ll always remember them

Did you watched the Video?

Yes, but it seems possible to survive being thrown out if the speed was not high and live. Because the people strapped in got crushed by the car. I'm no saying it's a good idea to not wear the seat belt, but just in that scenario it seems like you could survive.

In the type of crash created in this test, I would say you could survive if you had been thrown clear of the car. The problem though, is that a lot of roll overs don't happen like that, where the car is launched into the the air, rotates slowly and lands on its roof after half a revolution. As he explained with the toy car, it normally involves sliding sideways and tripping over something like a kerb or digging into something soft like grass. The clip at the beginning of the video is much more realistic, and I wouldn't fancy my chances in that type of roll.

thanks! that is a good answer.

Yeah, but other accidents are more survivable with your seatbelt on.