5 Series (F10/F11/F07/F18) [Official] BMW F10 5 Series

[K-A]

HOLY SHIT. That car is mangled beyond belief. I can't even imagine how somebody could survive that, but very very fortunately the driver did. That safety cell looks like a mangled mess to me, enough so that it seems he's extremely fortunate at the angle of impact, thus how the car crushed being that the passenger side got the brunt of the impact, fully crumbling, while the driver side kept moderate room.

 

[Zafiro]

Glad its not a small car like VW Golf or he would be dead.

 

[JLBM]

HOLY SHIT. That car is mangled beyond belief. I can't even imagine how somebody could survive that, but very very fortunately the driver did. That safety cell looks like a mangled mess to me, enough so that it seems he's extremely fortunate at the angle of impact, thus how the car crushed being that the passenger side got the brunt of the impact, fully crumbling, while the driver side kept moderate room.

Nope - the drivers side got the brunt of the impact, amazing he survived. New Zealand has right hand drive cars, road travel is to the left.

 

[mini_cooper4]

Makes me feel safe as I'm driving the same car
Good job BMW but of course he is a lucky guy!

 

[JLBM]

Makes me feel safe as I'm driving the same car
Good job BMW but of course he is a lucky guy!

Me too, also have an F10 535i in white. But it's no guarantee you'll survive all crash scenarios, of course..

 

[klier]

HOLY SHIT. That car is mangled beyond belief. I can't even imagine how somebody could survive that, but very very fortunately the driver did. That safety cell looks like a mangled mess to me, enough so that it seems he's extremely fortunate at the angle of impact, thus how the car crushed being that the passenger side got the brunt of the impact, fully crumbling, while the driver side kept moderate room.

Looks like you never learn. You can't see those things with the naked eye. People have been saying this many times, but you simply refuse to listen.
And besides, like said before, it's a moot point, because they drive with the steering wheel on the other side over there. So it only proves your total ignorance about the subject once more

 

[Wolfgang]

Believe the speed limit is 100 km/h on Highway 3. The Euroncap site has this to say about speeds.


"Should this not be higher given driving speed limits are higher?"

"Accident research shows that carrying out frontal impacts at 64 km/h speed covers a large proportion of the serious and fatal accidents which occur. Even if the maximum speed limit is 120 km/h, few accidents occur at such speeds and where they do, it is beyond current capabilities to provide protection for the car's occupants." http://www.euroncap.com


Careful out there!

 

[K-A]

Looks like you never learn. You can't see those things with the naked eye. People have been saying this many times, but you simply refuse to listen.
And besides, like said before, it's a moot point, because they drive with the steering wheel on the other side over there. So it only proves your total ignorance about the subject once more

Oh god, Klier. There isn't much I need to learn here. You must have bad eyes because that safety cell looks like a crumbled or heavily bent soda can. Somehow, someway it managed to protect the guy from a fatality, which is all that matters, but to say that it's been completely compromised would be the understatement of this short-so-far year.

 

[Kowalski]

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[Deckhook]

Regardless of what you think here Klier but K-A is right the safety cell is a mess, though I doubt any other car would have fared much better. One very lucky guy....... someone was smiling down from above when that happened.

 

[speed_kills]

BMW should add mechanical LSD to their M Perfomance acessories.
About the crash, BMW have a disadvantage with a straight six at the front, is like a battering ram when crashing. One of the reasons almost all of brands use a V6 in the 6 cylinder models.

 

[Human]

BMW should add mechanical LSD to their M Perfomance acessories.
About the crash, BMW have a disadvantage with a straight six at the front, is like a battering ram when crashing. One of the reasons almost all of brands use a V6 in the 6 cylinder models.

That's BS, extreme and utter BS. AND any person with a vague knowledge of the basic laws of physics will no your statement is utter nonsense!

Euro NCAP crashtest of BMW 530d 5-series F10: 5/5


All respect to the engineers to all car brands and in particular the German and Swedish brands (BMW, Mercedes-Bens, VAG, Volvo) unfortunately we see too many of the horrific crashes in South-Africa hence the fact that we do not have a functioning intercontinental railroad network (we had one in the Apartheid era, biggest employer then) but we have roughly 3500 big Transport / Logistic companies each operating between 200-400 heavy haulers @ 22 meters long and in South Africa, the permitted maximum is 56 tons of cargo.
CONCLUSION: No car on earth can or will look 'better' after a collision with a truck. The truck like the tree always wins.

Sad, daily sight on our roads & highways

PS: The Golf GTI in the background is a private company called NETCARE911.

 

[Kowalski]

The remains of (what used to be) an Audi 100?

 

[Human]

^

No, Audi 500SEL

 

[Kowalski]

^

No, Audi 500SEL

Same car, different names.

 

[Deckhook]

No matter the car if it suffers an extreme accident like any of these examples then the outcome will be the same.

 

[speed_kills]

That's BS, extreme and utter BS. AND any person with a vague knowledge of the basic laws of physics will no your statement is utter nonsense!

So you mean in a front crash, a straigh six behaves live a V6? Basicaly in one you have a longer, narrow engine and and the other you have a very wide engine but short in lengh and they absorve the impacts the same? The SS makes BMW work harder to make the cage safe, it's basic laws of physics. Long and narrow vs short and wide. Of course the BMW is safe now, they perfected this defect.

 

[hoffmeister_fan]

A station wagon drifting....love it.

 

[Cashmere]

Vilner Edition

 

[braaf]

So you mean in a front crash, a straigh six behaves live a V6? Basicaly in one you have a longer, narrow engine and and the other you have a very wide engine but short in lengh and they absorve the impacts the same? The SS makes BMW work harder to make the cage safe, it's basic laws of physics. Long and narrow vs short and wide. Of course the BMW is safe now, they perfected this defect.

I think what Human is trying to say is it doesn't matter what car or engine you have, when in a situation like that you better hope you make it out alive.