I was recently just in an accident with my 2017 XC90 R-Design. I was rear ended by a distracted teen while I was waiting at a red light and they hit me so hard it launched me into the intersection (a very busy one) where I was t-boned and when that car hit me i started rolling over. I rolled a total of 5 times. I walked away with a broken ankle, broken humerus, sprained wrist, concussion and a piece of glass in my cheek. If I weren’t in my Volvo I wouldn’t be here typing this. I wouldn’t be here with my family. It saved my life. That’s why I think a lot of people should get a Volvo. I would highly recommend. I just bought a 2020 XC90 Inscription T6.
Hmm yes but the average person can't afford such spanking cars, they'd have to go for the smaller models which may be safe but not as safer... Basically Volvo is becoming more of a luxury brand than the affordable safer type.
Dally Singhson I mean if you can’t afford a new one the used deals are pretty cheap. CARFAX: Volvo XC90 (2017-2020) www.carfax.com/Used-Volvo-XC90_w663 Here’s one on CARFAX that looks like my old XC90 www.carfax.com/vehicle/YV4A22PMXK1456925 CarGurus: Volvo XC90 (2017-2020) www.cargurus.com/Cars/inventorylisting/viewDetailsFilterViewInventoryListing.action?zip=13760&showNegotiable=true&sortDir=ASC&sourceContext=carGurusHomePage_false_0&distance=50000&sortType=DEAL_SCORE&endYear=2020&entitySelectingHelper.selectedEntity=d523&startYear=2017
I’m a Volvo loyalist on my 3rd car. 1) 1998 S80 (gifted) - was rear ended and totaled (I was safe) 2) 2005 XC90 (gifted) - front crash, someone cut me off on the highway when they had no room to merge (I was safe) 3) 2016 XC90 (purchased) - still going strong and I love her and all the updates safety features from my 05. Love, love, love my Volvo SUV!
8:25 It’s impressive how the little explosive goes off after the wall hits the safety cage instead of it hitting the bumper. Mad respect for Volvo safety.
I drive a XC90 VOLVO....its like driving a tank on the highway...best ,safest family car i have ever driven....saved me and my family twice from accidents that could have been very serious had we been in a different car......its very high tech,therefore software needs to be updated often...very expensive to maintain .....and I don't know why they have not installed a wearing down break pad indicator...!!???I have to listen for screeching when I brake as an indication to change my brake pads......driven XC60 ,XC40..felt just as safe...Well Volvo
Most of my family drives Volvos :) at home we have a 940, V70, 2 amazon 121 (one owned by my cousin), Volvo BM 2250 (tractor) and a 240 (also owned by my cousin)
Impressive how many ideas went into the design. Sadly, all this safety comes at a price. Here in germay the no-frills base model of the XC90 model costs twice the amount (60.000 EUR) of the average new car a family can afford. So safety is only available for wealthier people.
@@_essential The joke is yes: I am the only one in the row who actually owned this car. I was happy to switch back to the E-Class. Sure - different car types and concepts - but I really didn't enjoy the XC90. It just drives like a small bus.
Volvos have similar safety levels when it comes to an actual crash. The they defer when it comes to crash-avoidance technologies (adaptive cruise control, lane assist, etc). but most expensive volvos have the same features, with the diference bing the "luxury" features between them.
In the iihs crash test they removed the head restraints and that makes the whips worse so if the Volvo gets a bad score in the whiplash protection it’s iihs fault
I'm having a hard time believing that Volvo can manage to avoid even serious injury if one experiences a side impact. Death yes, but seing the results from the side impact tests; I would think the driver would have serious injuries in shoulder and ribs, with internal bleeding and a real possibility of the ribs penetrating vital internal organs. I've seen crash tests of MB, and their cars look to limit side-impact penetration into the "cage" substantially more. Though it looks better, I'm not sure that makes MB any safer though.
Your analysis skills are clearly not sufficient. NCAP tests which include a variety of crashes, show that volvos have some of the best safety available. Volvos are the safest cars on the road
Volvo has safety in mind from the very beginning. The others just followed through because the government mandated it. Guess what the government chose for benchmark? The Volvo 240. Thank you.
1994 had my dad a very clean volvo 244 1982. A brand new Honda Accord heavily rear-ended our car on a redlight and noone of us was hurt. Shocked of course, but not injured. We drove off when the insurance stuff was done and the Honda was wrecked and towed to scrapyard 🙂
There are mandatory standards (safety belts for example) but competition between manufacturers and agencies like EuroNCAP etc forces them to make their cars much safer. There isn't just a specific rule set that a car either pass or not (if it doesn't it cannot be sold), there are various safety scores (ex EuroNCAP stars) so relative differences can be presented and create the competition that eventually forces the cars to become safer. The result is very close competition where all major manufacturers get similar (but not identical) results. It's nowadays very rare for a new car from a major manufacturer not to have top -or close to the top- rating. Hope that helped :)
Sadly not! There are examples of new cars that are very poorly enginered, take the Ford Mustang as an example. It lives up to the requirements, but not much more. Some cars have been found to be constructed to pass the tests, rather than be safe. Like not having equal strengths on both sides of the front, so that a car failed the small overlap crash when it was mirrored, but passed when it crashed on the normally tested driver side. So there are definitely differences in different manufacturers standards.
Huge fan of Volvo but the safety features are getting increasingly pervasive in terms of privacy. Limiting speed on a 60k car? Installing cameras to track our eye movement to see if were falling asleep on the wheel? Auto steer and 20+ other features that I most likely cannot turn off? I just want to know I won't die when I get in a bad accident.
почему не испытывают на средней скорости 75- 90 км/ч . Живу в Норвегии, за скоростным лимитом следят тут хорошо, но за городом все превышают и во всех странах . Толку от таких испытаний на скорости 35 или 64 км/ч 🤔 Разгоните и переверните эту вольву на скорости 150-170км/ч или боком в столб на 80км/ч , а то испытывают на столб со скоростью 30км/ч😂
That rollover test barely hit the roof or sides, it touched the ground on the first roll and then hit the corners/fenders. Show a rollover where the full weight of the car diagonally impacts the roof.
Search yourself fool. They have rolled more than one xc90. While you’re at it, show me one other car manufacturer that even rolls a car, because not even Tesla does. They find the max speed required before it rolls!
All I have to say is it can be safer. I found a 2017 xc90 that had been in a severe rear end small overlap on the left side. It had intruded all the way to moving the seat behind the driver forward. Does Volvo even test for Small Overlap Rear Collisions??? Highway speeds.
Safety functionality is standard on our most expensive cars because.....well, we care more about rich people, who may go on to purchase another expensive model. Thanks Volvo.
Wrong and get the chip off your shoulder!....it’s standard on all their cars! Don’t be jealous and hate because you don’t have the money. Second hand is always a option!
of course by making volvo's safe with hardened steel, that means it is more offensive against other cars. more safety for volvo drivers, less safety for other drivers of other cars. it's an arms race of sorts. is that stuf really increasing the overall safety of the streets. maybe or maybe not. it surely increases the saftey of volvo drivers. it's like driving an 18 wheeler; sure they are safe. and it also means average cars are less safe.
From the very beginning of the Volvo SUV's construction was soft in the lower front part of the car in order to absorb the collision-energy from smaller and lower cars. But weight and height are naturally a theme here. There ought to be law-inforced crash-compatibility in my opinion.
In the US half of all car sales are trucks with a front end that looks like a wall and an engine behind it that is very powerful. Part of the reason they are so popular is that one of the few ways to protect yourself from them is to drive one. The manufacturers know this and actively promote this. So if you dont want a truck you can either be squashed like a bug or fight back with a stronger car...
Am still very frustrated that in an accident between a 2017 xc90 and a ram 1500, ram driver suffered only minor injuries but the xc90 lady suffered critical injuries and was left disabled. From pictures of the crash, it seems the safety cage of Xc90 is not as strong as they claim. The upper wing of the front crumble zone does not use high strength steel. Safety cage should have more boron steel to protect occupants. I guess a tesla x or Mercedes gls would do a better job protecting
Also the roof cross member should have a red steel-ultra high strength boron. the older generation has boron across the roof but this newer gen does not
Fake News! Both vehicles were their 2016 variants and it happened in MA. The child was rather unscathed and the lady was flown in with non-life threatening injuries. The drunk driver of the RAM’s conditions were unknown but he was arrested. The Volvo was traveling 38 kph while the Ram was going 102 kph.
