Renault 25: 1 - Ford Orion: 0

[Guest Tony Hayers]

Must remember not to get shunted up the back end whilst driving the Orion -

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvXoY3Rbmxw

 

[Station]

Most crashes I've seen have the one behind receiving more damage! Wonder if the Orion is modified at all, that's almost Chinese-like.

[warren t claim]

Poor Malaga!

[autofive]

the orion is scary, but not as scary as the cavalier / volvo battle

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQPca-aTlL0&NR=1

[trigger]

That can't be true!

 

Thank Christ i was driving a Passat last month and not a Orion then, My Passat got off quite lightly after being rear ended at 50 mph whist at stand still then!.

[Lankytim]

IIRC these cars have other cars infront, blocking them in so the impact damage is much more severe. I cant actually view the vids though!

[eddyramrod]

I've told my Orion-crash story on another thread; thankfully there was nothing in front of me! Strangely though, it was a Renault that hit me... (cue Twilight Zone music) but a Clio.

[MrRegieRitmo]

Lobster don't look! Nothing to see here, move on! There's certainly no Seat Malaga getting smashed to smithereens in that clip, must be a MkI Jetta or something....yes that's it - a MkI Jetta, that's all!

[Mr Lobster]

Lobster don't look!

 

Too late, I looked

 

I'm guessing that the R25 and also the Volvo in the other clip were going pretty damn quickly although it doesn't look like it in the clips.

 

Still, ouch.

[Formula Autos]

IIRC these cars have other cars infront, blocking them in so the impact damage is much more severe. I cant actually view the vids though!

Unfortunately, having a car in front replicates what happens when you're at the back of a queue of traffic, which I'm sure we'll notice ourselves doing a lot more after all this.

 

Could the 25 and the Volvo be doing about 70 perhaps? Were these tests possibly replicating motorway crashes?

 

Whatever speed they were doing, I'm shocked at the lack of structural integrity in an Orion. Presumably the Mk3 Escort on which it is based would be even worse, having less of a boot to absorb some of the energy?

 

Note to self - if you ever buy an Escort or Orion, use it for local trips only. No motorways.

[retrogeezer]

Note to self - if you ever buy an Escort or Orion, use it for local trips only. No motorways.

or do what I do in any car - don't sit right up the arse of the car in front in any queue of traffic..

[Father Ted]

Frigging Renners at it again this time mashing up a 940.

[55bloke]

Interesting that the cars are all on UK plates.

[CreepingJesus]

I only hope (altho' I'm damn sure I know otherwise) that people don't rush out an buy a Modus, thinking that its' structural integrity will be that good when it's 17 years old.

Crash safety's never as simple as that, and I hate the blind obediance to the cult of safety, at the expense of keeping yourself safe by your own actions.

[/rant]

[Vin]

According to the DVLA the Renner 25 was taxed until 2002.

 

So I wonder then if maybe the Orion is a 'cut n shut' or something and it is a demonstration of it's structural rigidity?

[Gompo]

There definitely seems to be 'something' amiss, the Onion barely moves forward until the 25 has crushed the entire boot.

[j-j]

Can't beleive the Orion! If you look at the sills they hardly budge - it's all the top that folds.

 

At the opposite end of the scale, look how well the Fiat 500 new style does against a hooooge Audi Q7