just wondering how well they do...

thanks

 

Please don't test the theory!

Get Dan Carney's book for more info.

Alternatively, do a search on accidents. I believe the real world experiences on this site count for far more than scientific tests. That may read perverse, but crash tests have to be fairly basic so they can assimilate comparative data.

 

I heard they never actually choose to crash test the car. Manufacturers disgression I think. I think crash testing is for the insurance companies mostly.

 

This car WAS crash tested...extensively by Honda, even given tests IIHS (the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety) does not give. Front, Rear, and Front Offset crash tests were given a "good" rating, which is the highest rating they give. In other words, the car is 5 star all around. They even rolled the car (slowly), but I have no results from that...would like to know what they were though, since the Mugen guys seemed to think the stock roll bars behind the seats were useless. Who knows?

Andrew

 

I think the chance of any of us rolling our car is slim to none. We have to be far better than most of the convertibles in the price range we are in.

Lance

 

A long time ago A guy who posted alot on http://www.iclub.com , Adam something, rolled his White S2K while trying to avoid two idiotic pedestrians that were meandering down the road in the middle of a curve. He swirved to miss them and ended up hitting some embankment or something and then the car rolled. The good news is he came out of it with only a few scratches and bruises.

 

I agree that the S is very hard to roll, esp. on flat good-quality road. However, go sideways over something that grabs (like a ditch or sidewalk rise or something), something that the wheels simply can't slide over, and you can flip the car. Simple matter of physics, if the car has enough inertia and the wheels on one side get caught in something, one of two things will happen: The wheels will rip free (allowing the car to continue to slide), or the car will flip over.

This will happen in *any* car, given the right conditions. We're just fortunate enough to have a car that is very difficult to flip on normal roads

Saw a pickup on stilts over the weekend. I chuckled knowing that even a 4-wheel slide would probably flip him Still to this day I don't know why people do that to their cars. Tall trucks make very poor ATV vehicles, because of their narrow tilt limitations (anyone notice how low the CG of a Hummer is?)

 

Here's the URL for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website, which includes crash test information:

http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/testing/ncap/

If you follow the link to the crash test info, you'll find the US government hasn't tested the S2000 yet, and currently does not have any plans to.

But there's information here for lots of other cars.

 

I recall several posts from people who rolled. This was spread over quite some time and on both the H-A and S2000online sites. However, from reported accidents, the car appears to do remarkably well.

The car also does remarkably well at accident avoidance as I recently learned.

 

And that's the thing they never test!

I'm fully convinced that small, agile cars (in the hands of capable drivers who are paying full attention) are safer than lumbering macho SUVs for this reason, even though the monsters fare better when a crash actually happens.

But there are no statistics to prove it.