It also transfers all the way back through the left side C-pillar.

The Renault is a decent looking car. Too bad it's made of papier-mâché.

What I found most disturbing, is how much elastic deformation was visible on the a-pillar of the Kwid. It folds all the way to a 45 degree-angle and then most of the way back to its normal shape. It seems as the Kwid is as structurally stable as squid.

Goes to show you that some companies will do the least amount of work they can legally get away with.

In a static collision with just 1 crashing car, sure... Introduce a second car, likely in an oncoming scenario, and a 64km/h closing speed can easily be achieved.

That’s with a stationary object though. A head on would probably bring a lot more energy.

The worst one is the first one. But the bottom 3 seem to be better and perform like a typical small car from the early 1990s. Personally I think the bottom 3 deserve at least a half a star.

Yeah, but there comes a point where you’ve spent more money down-engineering a basic design, downgrading tooling to be able to make such a bad design and sourcing shit materials than you are going to be saving in from doing all that. I feel that in order to achieve such horrendous results, Renault especially, has now…

It looks like a lot of it is the lack of airbags, but then lightweighting/cheapening the steel probably comes into play, too, for how far they crumple. (And, that Eeco is basically a decontented/cheapened version of an Indianized version of a kei van from 1999, which I believe is before Japan required kei cars to be…

I should have edited my post. I saw the speed in the second video. Thanks again.

Quick summary for the impatient:

Probably using the lightest, cheapest, lowest quality steels available, the used those as sparingly as possible in the vehicles construction.

This is exactly what u was wondering and the only conclusion seems to be that, yes, they went out of the way to engineer-down a basic safely design in order to save money.

64km/h

says in the video - 64 km/h

What is the vehicle’s speed on impact?

Now you can see why crash test dummies don’t want to go to India.

I didn’t think it was even possible to build cars that badly anymore. The basic design set ups usually have safety levels built in right from the start, did they design a basic car and then actively go back and take all the safety features out? I mean deliberately weakened the design through an active process? That is…

Or you can put a console there anyway, but have like...30 goddamn cup holders or a beer cooler or something.

That’s because it’s stupid! Column shifters for life!