Crash Test Results!!!

Vanmanerik · Post by **Vanmanerik** » Wed May 09, 2007 11:36 pm

Found this site, quite interesting and reassuring in a way, although the test is for a tin top not an AFT.

http://www.nasva.go.jp/mamoru/english/2000/e00f065.html

brorabongo · Post by **brorabongo** » Thu May 10, 2007 12:17 am

Thanks for that Vanmanerik. It is reassuring to know my Tin-top is not too tinny

and relatively safe for transporting my family. Nice one

jimsmimm · Post by **jimsmimm** » Thu May 10, 2007 12:39 pm

now where's that halfwit who was running all the scare stories earlier on in the year on the site....

neil/di · Post by **neil/di** » Thu May 10, 2007 2:10 pm

He was a plank wasnt he

mikeonb4c · Post by **mikeonb4c** » Thu May 10, 2007 2:47 pm

One thing about the test report. It seemed very brief (or did I miss something). I'd have liked more detail. Also, I didnt check but what is the 'pedrigree' of this test house?

francophile1947 · Post by **francophile1947** » Thu May 10, 2007 3:18 pm

How can you all say such nasty things about our beloved javednazeer? It is well known that the village idiot is always popular

crazy uncle gray g · Post by **crazy uncle gray g** » Thu May 10, 2007 3:26 pm

I hate to be pedantic & perhaps it`s just me,

but why is it the only one in its class not to show a side impact collision

pippin · Post by **pippin** » Thu May 10, 2007 3:34 pm

I found the crash test report site three and a half years ago and indeed there was at that time some discussion on the forum.

Basically the test centre is the Japanese equivalent of the EU/UK testing ones.

I remember there was a link to pages of further information, but my Japanese was (and still is) not quite up to understanding it.

mikeonb4c · Post by **mikeonb4c** » Thu May 10, 2007 4:06 pm

Ah so. Shame there isnt more - would be interesting reading

David Edwards · Post by **David Edwards** » Thu May 10, 2007 11:09 pm

It was nice to read this report, I found one about three and a half years ago, when I bought my bongo which gave it a poor rating, almost on a par with the old Austin J4 vans, that was a foreign site too, it is brill to know that all the family are safe in a whump, Bongo reigns supreme. Very happy motoring now.

nfn · Post by **nfn** » Fri May 11, 2007 7:53 am

I wonder if the test including the old Austin vans was testing the original Bongo van from the early 1970s, or one of the 1980s models? The original Bongo was rear engined -- which generally isn't too good in a frontal crash. There is some Bongo history information on Wikipedia.