VW BEETLE CRASH SIMULATIONS

[Ace-Garageguy]

DISCLAIMER: NO REAL VW BEETLES WERE HARMED IN THESE SIMS   

 

 

Edited September 18, 2024 by Ace-Garageguy

[ChrisR]

I own a 1300 and 1600 Beetle and you lucky if you get to 70mph ?

[NOBLNG]

Never owned one, but I think the survival estimates are a little suspect.?

[bobss396]

He does a bunch of other simulations from small cars to 18 wheelers and school buses.

[johnyrotten]

Cool video,  I watched one with a passenger bus. It got real interesting. 

[Little Timmy]

At 200 mph and over, I think just keeping it on the road would break both your arms...

[Ace-Garageguy]

11 hours ago, NOBLNG said:

Never owned one, but I think the survival estimates are a little suspect.?

Well, some of your blood cells might survive for a while...  

[Mark]

The Beetle body shell supposedly has great crush resistance.  One VW book had a picture of one underneath a Ford pickup that had landed on top of it after crashing through a bridge guard rail.  The roof sheet metal was messed up, but the structure didn't crush to any great degree...

[milo1303s]

On 9/18/2024 at 4:20 AM, ChrisR said:

I own a 1300 and 1600 Beetle and you lucky if you get to 70mph ?

my 1776 cc begs to differ pegged at left turn signal !!!  lol

[Fat Brian]

I have BeamNG on my computer, you can buy it on Steam. It's fun to just crash stuff, most racing games don't have damage models but that's where Beam excels. You need a pretty stout computer to run it though, all that deformation takes a lot of RAM.

[The Junkman]

Yeeaahh, right.  In my previous life the first fatal I ever went to, didn't have to investigate, was a early-mid '60s VW Bug that center punched a traffic light.  Until then I didn't know that the connection of the steering wheel to the steering gear was a steel rod.  It had nowhere to go except straight back.  And we aren't talking about a 200mph Bug.