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      04-15-2022, 09:54 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by KoenG View Post
I wouldn't brag too much with the honest intentions of BMW or which ever make. Only MB and Volvo or Saab maybe, but they just wanted to better the very poor competition to use it as a USP. They never needed to excel, just put a seat belt as standard equipment or have 'weak' deformation zones at front and in the back was sufficient.

Cars only became really better because there are institutions like EuroNcap or IIHS. During the 80-90's, consumers didn't ask for a save car, all was reflected to the "save driver". The safest car, was the one with the safest driver back then! Even car magazines here in Belgium wrote this kind of none sense! Manufacturers were united in discrediting these tests as being pointless and irrelevant in the late 90's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gph2nqDWk7A


These days, and even without IIHS and others, cars would probably have become a bit better anyway because the market asked for "stiffer" cars. This eliminates the flex out of the chassis and avoids that the car starts creaking and squeaking after a few months/years. Also high power versions like the F90 require very stiff chassis for better control.
Eh, I still go with the safest car is the one that the driver doesn't crash. Everything else is auxiliary safety equipment.
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