Nice post , I have never seen that before.

 

Cool video, thanks for the post.

 

the crush points work well to absorb the impact. nice find

 

Has anyone mentioned yet that any damage should buff out with no trouble, just a little Simonize and elbow grease.

Nice video. I like the "smoke" from the airbags coming out of the right window.

 

Cool, I just upload this video to google just a couple of days ago and what a surprise to see it here now !

If you press 'More from his user!' buttom you will see more S2000 related videos.

There are more videos in youtube.com if seraching by my nick.

 

You wouldn't like it if you were sitting in the car! It's a combination of something like talcum powder (used to lubricate the air bag fabric on deployment) and the combustion by-products of the charge that expands the air bag.

It is a very irritating smell, kind of like smelling salts if you've ever experienced that. "Not" fun.

FWIW.

Drive Safe,
Steve R.

 

If both cars were the same weight/size it would be roughly the same as one car colliding with a stationary object(ie cement wall, tree, etc). If you run an S at 40mph into say, an Excursion going 40mph....thats where things get ugly.

Craig

PS-...and Barry in Wyoming has it right..."That'll Buff right out"

 

A head on collision uses different elements of physics than that of crashing into a stationary object, regardless of its structureal integrity. A 40mph head on crash is closer to hitting a wall at 100mph, give or take 10 mph. Very, very few people survive head on crashes because the forces impact at an exponential rate vs linear rate of crashing into a stationary object.

That being said, stay on the right side of the road and the S is pretty tough for a small open chassic car.

 

Damn thing holds up well

 

It's clearly a frontal offset crash test and I think only IIHS does frontal Offset Collision Tests. And those are conducted @ 40mph.