Check out this Chinese made (so I'm told) crash test.

Holly F, wouldn't want to be in one of these in a frontal crash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPpU5azjCB8

Kev

I would rather be in a vanagon than a splitty

Seriously - I dont know what that T3 was but a T3 has a very good crumple zone that takes a bit of the load.
They are not like a kombi where the front skin is all that is between you and the accident

have a look at the damage to mine and that was a Tiguan driving straight into it at I reckon 80kms with no brakes

That test was high speed and fully loaded. Any vehicle and your history

Hi

I reckon that they had a large payload in the back for the T3 to compact like that, the back wheels seem to stay on the ground during impact.

I've seen other T3 crash videos and fair pretty well in these type of crashes.

Steve

The site where I saw this, stated it was a Chinese built T3 and not a German built one.

Looks like there was no chassis at all the way it crumbled. I wasn't meaning that anyone here should be concerned, just put it up for a talk piece.

Also saw a video of a German built one at 50kmph into a wall and lucky if it pushed in 5-6" a very big difference.

Kev

Have a look here. It shows a bit moreabout that test.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uykStESm3vw 

I don't believe the myth that it's a fake T3. Based on what I've read and seen, I think it was a real T3 travelling at somewhere over 60mph and had about a tonne and a half of concrete in the back. Either way, you clearly don't want to crash any forward-control van at high speed, regardless of how well they're built. Even if the structure is stiff enough to resist deformation, there is no room for a crumple zone to decelerate you slowly, so you will experience huge deceleration. The best you can hope for with a stiff car or truck is to hit a nice squishy modern car and use their crumple zone!

stop waving at me

that 2nd video was a better advert for the morris 1100 :-)

Quote:

Originally posted by h stop waving at me

The ideal thing if you plan on crashing, is hitting a truck full of pilllows or hay

...A Chris Leete tip of the day

Or a Chery J1

I have a friend that works at the crash lab at Eastern Creek and years ago now she was telling me that the T3 was loaded with steel plate bolted to the rear and from memory was around four tonne and then was used to test the new test lab wall that had just been constructed, the car would never had folded like that without the load behind continuing to push it, cheers Greg

Your friend is full of shit!

That wasn't done in Australia.

I never new T3 were made in china.

That was a typo Ben. It was the wall that was made in China.

if its on the internet it must be true
if its on this site it must be true

great vid though!

if its on the internet it must be true
if its on this site it must be true

great vid though!

hard to say who was doing the test. if you put a few angle grinder slits in the right places any car could fail with shocking results.