Posted on 05/15/2018 10:50:36 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Untold millions of pages and pixels have been spent on debating whether cars were better back in the day, and consensus has been reached in a few key areas. Better looking? No doubt. More emotional, more visceral? And how. But safer? Not a chance—as shown in stark relief by this Toyota dealership's showroom display of a 2018 Camry that got squashed between two semi-trucks on the highway.
A new car showroom is typically filled with flawless examples of a company's latest models, but Toyota of Surprise in Arizona decided to make an exception for the Toyota Camry that saved its driver's life last week. A dealership employee identified as Ramon Suarez was on his way to the airport to pick up a customer when the Camry was rear-ended at speed by a semi-truck. The impact then pushed it forward into the back of another large truck, sandwiching the sedan in a nightmare scenario.
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As a result, Ramon walked away from the crash with hardly a scratch. It's one thing to read about a car's safety rating, or even see the crash tests performed in clinical, unfeeling fashion—but it's quite another to see the real-world results firsthand. It's remarkable how the rear end was basically annihilated. And after retrieving the crumpled Camry from a tow yard in Phoenix and seeing just how perfectly it had performed, the dealership's general manager Lewis Goldstein had something of an epiphany.
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Brilliant marketing.
I didn’t know there was a pickup version of the Camry.
As a general rule, rear end collisions are not fatal in most cases. There is lots of crush room back there. Now if the same vehicle had broadside into the Camry’s driver door, it likely would have been fatal.
The bumper’s still good. Remember back in the 70s when the government required manufacturers to make bumpers so they could withstand a 5 mph crash?
Car bumpers don’t align with truck bumpers.
Where is the other one that was totally destroyed by like 4 semi’s?
One of the amazing interesting things about this is how all the doors still open and close.
I’ve seen a lot less damage resulting in no way out.
The bumper is still, “Good” because most of the force and impact of the truck went up and over it.
I used to work for Toyota before they moved their national headquarters from Torrance, CA, a Los Angeles suburb, to Plano, TX, near Dallas three years ago. Great vehicles and a really good company to work for.
This would have been the result.
Isn’t crash survivability due in large part to government regulations?
Hmmmm. No Teslas...wonder why?
How fast was a semi going??? Probably not too fast.
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You might find this one interesting. A 1959 chevy bel air vs a 2009 chevy malibu. It did not go down the way I expected:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPF4fBGNK0U
I was in a crash in my 1997 Lexus sedan and that car took care of me - the passenger cabin was intact but the rest of the car was totaled. So I bought another Lexus - my favorite car ever.
That will buff out
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