I was surprised by these results. But this is why we test! Thank you to the IIHS staff for doing this work, and for continuing to push the boundary on safety standards.
small overlap truck crash test 2016 F150 😀 I'm alive Tundra 🙂 I'll be ok I guess Silverado 🤕 ow I'm hurt Ram 1500 ☠ ahhhhhh its hurts I'll probably die :(
Ram 1500 is more like "Ahh lord help me my legs have been turned into powder, I've been punched by the steering wheel coming straight into my chest, I can't breathe because of the airbag dust and being hit in the chest, and the car is on fire!
I remember how poor the 2001 Ford F-150 did in the offset test, and then how good the 2004 Ford F-150 did in the offset test. On February 6, 2023 around 10:15pm I was driving on a (straight) road when I slid on a patch of black ice. The back end of my 2004 Ford F-150 started to fishtail to the right and I tried to counter steer but over corrected and the back end then swung to the left and turned more the 90° to the ditch. Once the back drivers side wheel went off the road it clipped the snow and the truck started to roll about 3 or 4 times down the ditch before it struck a tree and came to a rest on its wheels. It knocked the wind out of me and I couldn’t breathe for about a minute. The passenger window shattered out and at some point my phone flew out of the truck. Because I couldn’t find my phone all I could do was keep the horn honking. I was also out in the middle of nowhere even though I was just 2 miles away from my house. The drivers side door was smashed in and jammed shut so once I was able to regain my strength to move I then had to crawl to the passenger side to get out. I eventually found my phone about 6 feet away in the snow. My glasses also flew off as soon as the truck started rolling and I still haven’t found them. Originally I thought I just went straight down the hill. I then realized how aggressive the truck was being jolted when I was trying to find my phone and saw everything put away under the seats were laying everywhere in the back seat. It wasn’t until I looked around and saw everything that was in the pick up bed scattered everywhere in the snow when I realized I actually rolled several times. You also can’t see yourself rolling. Basically all I could see through my windshield even with my glasses off was the whiteness of snow and a bunch of snow flying around as if you’re in a snow storm with no visibility. The only thing you can feel is yourself being jolted around and being pulled from your seat every time it rolled on the roof. I was going about 50 to 55 mph but the there was no snow at all on the road. The only snow visible was on the grass and on the trees. It was even 35°F outside which is a heatwave for Minnesota especially for February. What I eventually learned was that it was raining all day while I was asleep. So the road was originally wet but as soon as the sun went down certain spots iced up. I obviously learned this the hard way, also the entire road in the 2 miles I drove were dry, however where I slid is a spot that’s shaded with a bunch of trees. The truck was totaled unfortunately. I dealt with rib pain and chest pain as well as right wrist pain. I also experienced whiplash in my neck. A few days later I started to have pain on my head which probably was my water bottle hitting my head as that also flew out of the truck. Thankfully I was able to walk away from the wreck though. I didn’t even get any major cuts. The only part of my body that was bleeding was my finger because I broke my fingernail. None of my airbags deployed either since nothing hit the front end directly as well as the 2004 Ford F-150 didn’t come with side airbags yet.
You think thats bad? Ford really really REALLY fucked up with the F150 in the early 2000s.. even the F150 in the video.. the alumnium bodied one.. suffered "catastropic" lets say.. failures of the cabin structure.. but the good part is.. Ford learned from their mistake..
No amount of safety features will protect a car or truck T-boned by a Semi truck at highway speeds. A guy (and son in law)in my small town was killed on his first day of retirement heading to the gulf course, when apparently he jumped over the highway in front of a tanker truck. Yea. No amount of safety features was gonna stop the semi from crushing the occupants.😓😣 Saw a picture of the truck….may both RIP. He had told me he was retiring 3 days prior, and he bought something from my store that morning….and a customer told me died a few hours later. Folks, don’t mess with semi trucks! Give them SPACE. They can’t stop on dimes……
The irony is the Ford has an aluminum body and people complained like it was a tin can. Meanwhile the truck actually holds up better and has a very strong structural cage. The cage is steel but nevertheless people thought having aluminum body parts would be a demerit.
