You need to see these videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju6t-yyoU8s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz-s1sIoLhU&feature=related
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You need to see these videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju6t-yyoU8s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz-s1sIoLhU&feature=related
I can't see the videos on my phone.... but I sure hope one of them is the independent test done where they put a smart car against a normal sized family sedan (to compare it against the most common type of vehicle on the road that you're most likely to be in an accident with) in a 50mph head on collision and the smart car looked like a ping pong ball bouncing down the test track....
current test ratings/standards are skewed by these new light weight tiny vehicles. there has been some jive recently about adding test criteria to make the ratings more "realistic".
I'll admit it does better in the crash tests then I would have thought. However, even the guy in the video said that just because a small car gets good safety ratings it still isn't going to protect as well as a larger vehicle. "You wouldn't put a feather weight in the ring with a heavy-weight" as he put it. And there are alot of heavy weights rolling around here.
Also those test were showing the smart crashing into a fixed object (less the 30mph side impact.) An accident involving two very dissproprtionately sized vehicles would be entirely different. Let's say a Yukon and a smart both going 50. When you facter in the laws of motion based on weight and size I think you'd agree. I know I'd rather be in the Yukon.
I think the real question when it comes to safety is would you put your 16 yo daughter in the car and let her go out on the interstate. If the highways by you are filled with motorcycles and Ford Pintos then the Smart would be just fine. But I know around here I would never trust a small vehicle like that.
I think it's a great car for Europe where vehicles are alot smaller. Personally I think the huge SUVs I see everywhere are a complete waste. I miss the days when the only trucks you saw on the road were work trucks. As opposed to business men driving pickups and soccor moms cruising in Suburbans while talking on the phone and drinking Starbucks. But that's the reality of roads in the US these days, and as such, I wouldn't want my kid on the road in one of those hampster cages.
Oh, no doubt. But the trauma to the occupants would certainly be less in the Commander since it has a much bigger crumple zone and would therefore absorb way more of the impact. It wouldn't bounce off the wall quite so violently.
But more to the point is what the outcome would be if the Commander and the Smart hit head on. That Smart car isn't going to stop the Commander dead in it's tracks like a concrete wall would, the truck will go through the car or push it aside. Obviously it would be catasrophic for both vehicles but I'm certain the Jeep would continue along it's path. You won't find it at the point of impact, it'll continue a bit beyond that, which means less trauma for the passengers. Remember 5th grade science, "an object in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted upon by an equal or greater force" The object with greater mass wins every time.
Drove my smart to work today:
https://theultimatejeep.com/images/i...IMAG0448-1.jpg
https://theultimatejeep.com/images/i...IMAG0446-1.jpg
You know, as many pictures of your Smart car that I've seen, I have just now read your license plate. "Missed it by that much"
I don't think your suppose to be in there with your car LOL
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Sure he can be in there....Thats Jon's jail. How do you think he gets to spend so much time online, either there or in the courthouse......lol
lol
Threw on a couple more decals:
https://theultimatejeep.com/images/i...2/Decal2-1.jpg
https://theultimatejeep.com/images/i...2/Decal1-1.jpg
I'd like a Steel Armadillo . Com decal - but i'm not sure where I'd put it at this point, lol. My left rear window is full.
No time to play with this but this is one of my newest toys:
https://theultimatejeep.com/images/i...2/VIVID1-1.jpg
https://theultimatejeep.com/images/i...2/VIVID3-1.jpg
https://theultimatejeep.com/images/i...2/VIVID5-1.jpg
I did go out and install it, I need to play with the setting and set it for the larger tires now!
I forgot to load this photo when I installed this last summer...
https://theultimatejeep.com/images/i...efCover1-1.jpg
Installed the full line of ASFIR aluminum skid plates:
https://theultimatejeep.com/images/i...dPlates6-1.jpg
https://theultimatejeep.com/images/i...dPlates1-1.jpg
https://theultimatejeep.com/images/i...Plates45-1.jpg
https://theultimatejeep.com/images/i...Plates38-1.jpg
Need to get it up on the lift to show all three, forgot my camera that day!
Here are a couple photos of the current project under construction:
https://theultimatejeep.com/images/i...erDay121-1.jpg
https://theultimatejeep.com/images/i...perDay12-1.jpg
https://theultimatejeep.com/images/i...perDay17-1.jpg
https://theultimatejeep.com/images/i...erDay111-1.jpg
And a mock-up bumper:
https://theultimatejeep.com/images/i...erDay118-1.jpg
https://theultimatejeep.com/images/i...erDay119-1.jpg
https://theultimatejeep.com/images/i...03/Day36-1.jpg
Interested to see if you feel that it is better that the Flashpaq that a lot of us are using
Prefer the drivers side look on the bumper mock up, IMO I think it fits the XK better.
Looks killer!
Saw this today and thought it was funny enough to share:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkjZtfgqC2w&feature=player_embedded
It would of been funny as heck if he took the elevator in that car LOL
Installed the new front bumper today:
https://theultimatejeep.com/images/i...IMAG0040-1.jpg
Awesome!!!
It needs a stinger!
I agree with sal!
Go big or go home!!
Your thread hasn't been updated in forever! Did you ever get the new wheels and tires you were talking about getting awhile back? What about the stinger for the front bumper?
lol i think Jons' been so busy he forgot he even owns an xk :p