>dodgefags will defend this https://www.youtube.com/watc

I always understood toughest to mean most durable. Good drivetrain, good frame etc.

>>14829920
Trucks suck for safety. Everyone knows this.

"Small Overlap" crash tests are flagrantly a contrivance to push for even more safety regulations and for cars to get even more swollen and expensive.

Safety requirements for trucks and SUVs in the US are laughable. Why else do you think they can make them this cheaply?

>>14832235
Or the use of HSS in front structure?

>>14832244
I say "tomato" you say "durrrrrr"

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>>14832254

>>14832235
small overlap is cancer. it should be fucking banned.

>>14832240
'cheaply'?

these shits cost $40,000

>>14832419
For a barge the size of a small house that can pull a big house. How much fucking cheaper do you even expect it to be?

>>14832235
how often would a crash like this even happen?

>>14832433
I have no horse in this race, but if someone crossed the center line and swiped you "small overlap" style, that could happen. If you fell asleep/crossed the median and hit a center divider, that could happen. I agree, low likelihood. But possible.

>>14832447
i feel like there has to come a point where IIHS and whoever else just lets go of every small possibility of fatal incident

what's next, the "steel i-beam falling off of a flatbed trailer" test?

the vehicle can't be immune to every possible Final Destination plot point. at some point we have to account for the entropy of the universe, the inherent danger of driving a 3500+ lb. hunk of metal at 80 mph, and the competence (or lack thereof) of drivers

>>14832447
I agree with the guardrail edge example and you could even hit the corner of a building in an old school downtown area but your "barely head on" example is both more common and (I believe) not well represented by this test as both cars spin out some momentum from the other (and the truck has a lot more being heavier). The "small overlap" test is into a fixed impact. It's contrived.

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still want a ram runner desu

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Install moose pusher.

Become the overlap test.

>>14832486
The IIHS only tests at 40mph. If they really wanted to reduce fatalities, they would test at 60mph. Instead of nit-picking 40mph tests where almost every crash is survivable, let's bring on 60mph tests!

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>>14832932
>mfw I am become Overlap destroyer of tests

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS7Nw_pV0K0
>wrangler small overlap
kek

>>14832486
RAM owner confirmed. its okay fagpai, release your tension here

>>14829920
>implying small overlap isn't a bullshit test they came up with because pretty much everything was doing great at all other tests and people were starting to ignore safety ratings
It's just a scary new test. Corner-on collisions with immovable objects are exceedingly rare.

I think dodges are crap and even I know that test is BS.

>>14829920
>driving a pick up
http://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/public-safety/2016/04/01/one-dead-after-accident-involving-trooper-route-17/82520202/

>>14833245

t. IIHS

>>14832427
Fuck you, these truck prices are out of god damn control. base model trucks are still at 29,000

I could pull a big house with a 1960's tractor for under 1000$ does that mean its a steal of a deal then?

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>>14833721
>driving into oncoming highway traffic is fine in cars

>t. The Last Of Us

Do Ram owners give a shit about anything aside from having the least "gay" truck?

>>14834357
They've sold millions of the things, it's kind of a stretch to make such a sweeping generalization about the people who buy them.

That said, the only decent product dodge makes is the trucks, they're way better than anything else Chrysler.

>>14829920
that's as fucking bull shit test anyway. small overlap collisions are almost always between two vehicles not a fucking fixed object

>>14834376

Nice try, RAM driver

>>14833026
nah it won't happen. these tests are meant to help improve safety for the majority of the population. the majority are urban faggots that very rarely see higher speed limits so there's no need to test anything above 40mph

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Posted about this when it happened.
tl:dr is that the airbags did not deploy and the seat belts did not lock up

Dodge makes utter shit that will kill you

>>14834376
And they still suck dick compared to Ferd and Chebby

The only Dodge thing worth buying was the Viper

>>14834459
hardly even any damage, that shit will buff right out

>>14834465
Frame twisted, engine pulled off of its mounts, front axle was destroyed.

>>14834463
>Viper
it's a piece of shit, just like your Miata

>>14834459
>air bags did not deploy
Airbags are triggered by a decelerometer that needs some pretty sudden violence to set them off. So if you hit a sheep, leave the road, and hit a tree, they trigger on the second hit and not the first. Plenty of cars have been in rollovers and not triggered front airbags, and that's by design
>seatbelts did not lock up
don't ask me mang, I'm just another dickhead on a forum

>>14834470
wtf did you hit? also the bags didn't deploy because the sensors aren't anywhere near where the impact is. probably wouldn't have helped anyway

>>14834503
Looks to me like he ran that stop sign and got clipped across the very front of his bumper cover which spun him around back behind the stop bar and broke his front passenger suspension since it took a lot of the spinning force in its side.

>>14834503
I was in the passenger seat. The truck plowed through a commercial sign, then stuck a concrete pylon.
A legit prostitute was coked out and pulled directly in front of us and slammed on her brakes. She was trying to find one of her clients in the industrial district we were driving through, wasn't aware of anything around her.
The driver of the truck swerved off the road to avoid hitting her.

The impact with the sign was enough that I ate the dashboard hard enough to get a concussion and lasting nerve pain in my neck.

>>14834474
bad meme

delet

>>14834525
>lasting nerve pain in my neck
or at least that's what you tell the social security office right? wink wink

>>14834525
you sued the whore and your friend right? a little nerve damage and you're set for life, not a bad trade at all

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>"Ford, Built Tough"

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>>14834556
Shit, I wish I could get some of that sweet cripple pity money. Or at least a prescription for some painkillers. For the past couple years I've been eating about 20 Ibuprofen per day.

>>14834575
The whore in question immediately called her pimp when she saw what she caused. Within about 40 second another car showed up, took a package from her, then sped off. The CSO and ambulance arrived about 3 minutes after that.
The police took down her info for insurance purposes, but we found out like a week later that all the info and ID she gave to the cops was fake. Thats her over on the left side of the pic.
Sueing never really crossed my mind, seemed like a hassle and I didn't think I could realistically win. Kind of wish I would have though. The owner of the building in the background there has security footage of it all too, I don't have a copy unfortunately.

Funfact: one of the biggest prostitution stings in MN history happened just a couple miles from here not long ago.

>>14834612
pretty easy to tell the truck is fucked from that angle. i still love my dodge tho, don't give a fuck what anyone says about em

>>14833235
That seems just downright comfortable.

>>14832235
>>14832433
>yfw small overlap is the single most common front impact aside from low-speed traffic bumper bumps
two cars going towards each other, and they try to swerve away, but not fast enough. thus, the small overlap is born.

it happens a lot, and the accidents are often fatal because they happen at a lot faster than 35mph.

>>14834709
IIHS claims 1/4 of all fatal accidents are small overlap

>>14832433
>>14832447
>>14832583

what if you clipped a building or a tree?

>>14834612
have you checked out a chiropractor? I mean you've got pain and you have insurance so why not try it out. I had my back all fucked from a car accident, went to the chiro and got a lawyer off of google that worked on commision if the case was won. You can still try with one of those lawyer as well unless you signed waivers releasing the other guy from responsibility?

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MILITARY GRADE

>>14829920

I would not buy a Ram.

>>14833235

This one really surprised me.

>>14833502

It's similar to two cars of equal weight hitting each other head-on at the same speed. In both scenarios, the forces are bringing the car to a stop in the same amount of time. I have a theory that the forces required to do this are equal, though I do only have a basic understanding of physics.

>>14829920
Damn. It's crazy because people buy trucks thinking that because they are big that are safe.

Small overlap fucks up A LOT of cars though

>>14836038

I really appreciate the people at the IIHS.

I would like to have a job there crashing cars.

>>14833235
>Jeep accidentally the undefeated champion of the small overlap test solely by aesthetic

>>14829920

>marginal

That's a funny way of saying "FAILED". Why are they waking on eggshells? Just call a spade a spade.

>>14836092

I think the people at Jeep may have made some revisions to it because the older 2-door the IIHS tested only got a marginal rating.

>>14836105

It's better than poor, which is the lowest rating.

>>14836123
oh i'm sure it had to be built this way, but they basically just gamed the test - the shape of the vehicle obviously helps massively.

>>14833235
>that part where the driver side mirror becomes a flying knife
FUCKING NOPE

>>14833235

A E S T H E T I C S

>>14833235
Why did I burst out laughing watching this hahahah

It received the best possible rating, right?!

Like

>Rating: Outstanding

>>14834459
>get in crash
>airbags and seatbelts which are known to kill people didn't work
>so you lived
>hurr the truck is shit!

I'm literally driving a death trap

how does this make me less of a man?

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>tfw you know you're invincible on the road
thank you volvo

>>14834459
>Dodge makes utter shit that will kill you
XJ Owner here its true its a fucking deathtrap

>>14834459
>fenderbender
>the airbags didn't deploy!! D:

That's because you didn't hit anything hard enough to trigger them, you retard. Cars aren't like the movies where you tap the bumper and they deploy -- accelerometers measure the impact and deploy the airbags only if you're crashing hard enough that the seatbelts aren't enough. That's why they're a Supplemental Restraint System.

They'd do you more harm than good in that collision, plus adding a couple grand to your repair bill.

And I don't drive anything that's got a ram's head badge on it.

>>14832221
They don't have to, you shouldn't have to operate under the assumption that if somebody crashes into you hard enough, you're probably going to be dead, especially at the prices that new ones go for these days. A used Chevy S10 being a death trap is more forgivable because you know what you're getting in to, whereas salesmen probably pitch the muh safety and durability to people about these trucks all day long

>>14834606
Pretty sure it's "Built Ford tough", famalam.