US EditionOld VW Golf Meets Modern Crash Test: Proof of How Far Car Safety Has Come
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Comparisons between cars yesterday and today often reserve surprises, but this time the gap is so marked that it has something to think about. A crash-test carried out in Germany has indeed put face to face a 1989 Volkswagen Golf II and a 2024 Golf VIII. Two generations separated by 36 years, but above all two visions of car safety. The experiment, led by the Dekra organization, wanted to show the progress made since the late 1980s. The result i…
"Passengers in the second generation Golf would have a very small chance of surviving a head-on collision due to the collapse of the passenger compartment, the penetration of car parts into it and the impact with the steering wheel," explains Markus Egelhaaf from Dekra. The organization, which is engaged in, among other things, testing and researching car safety, recently published an analysis of changes in road safety over the past hundred year…
This VW Golf Mk2 was subjected to a frontal shock test to see the differences with a current Golf. There is no better way to see the huge differences in vehicle safety than to compare two models separated for 30 years and submit them to the same tests. Volkswagen Golf is the protagonist of this new DEKRA report. That the safety in vehicles has improved over the years is something irrefutable, but it is not necessary to check visually and with da…
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