Monday, August 4, 2008

Don't ever think that your car is built like a tank for war

The Honda Civic, which was launched in year 2006, receives a 4 Star (Full marks is 5 Star) in the EuroNcap crash test, is definitely a safe car for passengers and drivers. However, many of us takes our car's strength for granted, thinking they're built as tough as tanks.

Here's 2 photos of a Honda Civic being rammed by a pickup truck in Thailand, which slices the car into half, luckily the driver is safe, but we couldn't imagine what would be the implications if there are rear passengers in the car, they would've surely being thrown out of the car and who knows what would have been the outcome.

Notice the little white spots at the top right corner? That's the rear section of the car, almost 100 meters away. Drive safe folks, and remember our cars are built to travel, not to sustain high impacts.