Just in case you are wondering what happens to the VW Santana at 1:20: It's hood is about 1.5m long (judging by the reference strip as well as comparing to it's 2.5m wheelbase). It crumples in about 0.045s, which means that the car's speed is at least 1.5m/0.045s = 33m/s or about 120 kph or 70 mph.
RELAX.. That particular test wasn't to test the CAR, it was to test the RIG. The car was loaded with 1000Kg of sand and was driven into the solid concrete wall (no deformable barrier) at 100Km/h - far faster than car would ever normally crash.
my god......when i was a kid my dad had a Santana....we traveled true whole Europe with that thing. Now i see this i realise how lucky i am to live today hahahaha.
@@xq39 70 mph would be legal speed in Europe when using highways - even in older times. I do not know the speed limits in history but nowadays outside of the towns and villages it is around 56mph. Anyway for the most of the time it looks like the nuclear power station wall test - when they launched F-4 Phantom aircraft against the test wall. Same disappearing of the body on the contact surface.
I been saying this for years “what is the song!?” And why is everyone complaining about the Santana? The Santana was going 120mph or 190kph. So it will happen. If you look at the top left you will see the milliseconds. So it was just going very fast.
But it doesn't the crash test. Santana flied into a wall. The other cars crashed to a deformable object. so it is not representative. BUT santana is a pice of shit
+22fret nope. You can work it out by studying the FPS. Its travelling about 19-20m/s, or 42-45mph. Old cars really were this bad. Modern cars, even small ones are magnitudes safer.
@@stinger15au last I checked modern cars do drive tests at 30 miles per hour and it almost gets near the passengers every time, bending the door indefinitely, and more importantly hitting into the pillar.
50+ years ago we didn't even have Lap Belts!! I remember going cross-country in a '59 Dodge. No reflective dotted line, 2 lane roads at 75 mph without a seat belt even installed in the new cars. Almost a million lives in America alone were saved in the last two decades due to auto safety. Check the math with a bit of research...
Santanna 1986, Fusca, e Astro dão até um frio na espinha, tem tb outros dois carros com os piores crash test que n estão aqui, o comodore e Volks t3, os famosos bateu morreu.
+fevgo303 Here is the link: ua-cam.com/video/KsCgrsVcbfk/v-deo.html Incase you are wondering why I am not replying to you, it is because I can't send links on my reply.
@@brutalknife3928 The closest match to the song playing in this video I could find is a song called "Miss Critical Girl" released back in 2022. Go search it in the search bar.
thats funny the astrovan folded up so much what did you hit it at 100mph? i was a passenger in a 90's astrovan that hit a telephone pole doing 50 and all it did was bend the bumper in about a half a foot and break the safety thing that connects the steering column to the steering rack. i knew the people that owned the van they replaced the coupler thing so the rack and still drive the van.
I suspect that Santana was at a much higher speed than the other tests. Also the 1985 Passat estate was crashed into a pole - so 80s VWs not quite as bad as they first seem in comparison to 90s ones.
Yes. Even if it was a super reinforced car which would leave no scratch in a crash at that speed, the passenger brains would simply splash inside the skull, when stopping from 120 km/h to 0 in a fraction of a second.
VW Santana was doing between 110 and 120 km/h based on calculation (using timer and wheel base of 100 inches). That is partially why it was "smooshed".
People think that because older cars tend to be heavier (at least here in America) that they must be safer. Nothing could be further from the truth. Yes being in a heavier car can give you an advantage if you hit a light car because it is likely that the light car will just slow down the heavy car as the light car gets flung backwards. Also heavy cars have to have better crumple zones to do well in these single car tests. But car safety in general has gotten so much better even just over the last decade or so. I would much rather be in a brand new subcompact than in an 80's or 90's land yacht as far as safety goes.
Your the idiot who thinks 90's and 80's automobiles are land yachts. Why should we adhere what you say as some kind of a known fact when almost everything that you said was a "this is what I think" response.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar I didn't say that all cars in the 80's and 90's were land yachts, I only implied that some cars from the 80's and 90's were land yachts. Look, I am old enough to have lived through all of the 80's, and I was old enough to drive through most of the 90's. So I am very aware of the cars that were on the road then. My first car was an 82 Ford Escort. Was that a land yacht? No! My friend's first car was an 87 Mercury Grand Marquis. Was that a land yacht? Well since it was the second biggest car made in the 80's, I would say yes. Would its 3,737 lbs curb weight make it a land yacht now? I don't know, who cares? It was a land yacht based on the standards of the time. The fact is that I could post some URL's to some statistics from IIHS or refer to my degree in engineering to point out that my response was a little more researched than just "that is what I think", but instead I will just point out that you didn't even read my post carefully enough to understand what I was saying about 80's and 90's cars so you pretty much destroyed your entire argument with your first sentence.
+Niklas Wejedal in Vans your feet are cut off and many like this Astro almost overturned sideways,,,Once seen a small car crash with a chevy Van that put the Van on it's side
How do you figure? Unless you're talking about the German Rube Goldberg machines... on most modern cars you don't have to do anything except tires, brake pads, fluid, and filter changes for the first 100,000 miles/160,000 km. On an old car... you'd have to adjust the timing, adjust the carb, give it a tune up, adjust the valve lash, rebuild the carb, etc etc.. and by 100,000 miles it was ready for the scrap heap.
Bartonovich52 wait till you get trouble on new cars, old cars are mostly straightforward, timing belt adjust piece of cake on most of the oldies , carbs a lil bit tricky. but new cars, try to even change spark plugs ore a defect light bulb on the headlight I dare you!
The Santana ...what is different in the test methode? Its from the Car the same as the Passat on start, just another "lable"... Its test runs with 100km/h?
Классное сравнение!!! Значит Passat 1985 года об железный столб, а 1997 года о деформируемый барьер,с 40% перекрытием, и чего это у них такая разница в повреждениях, ну вот ума не приложу; железный столб и алюминиевый барьер, а в догонку, Santana о бетонную стену, а чего на в барьер? И вообще её Китай выпускал! VW то здесь причём? Только Kefer по человечески и разбили! Машина 1938 года!!! Современные малолитражки не намного лучше проходят!
Sorry to put the same comment up again, but the reason the Santana was so bad is that for some reason VW likes to fill the car with weight and fire it at a huge rate of speed to see what happens. That's why it didn't have any markings on it or dummies in it. They also did it with the T3. Watch "What about that VW t3 crash test?" It sums up what I mean
1.20 - 1.36 the most scary crash test tht have ever seen now after that i dont want to drive a car like VOLKSWAGEN SANTANA and crash in the highway like this .
@@ShiroChikatsu ua-cam.com/video/neIbdrOX20M/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Jazztronaut-Topic Either that or ua-cam.com/video/n3QPVC02RcI/v-deo.html both kinda match this song eitherway
I don't think so I pretty sure you would die because you have a high chance of dying of breaking you're neck. it really depends on the position your in
Just in case you are wondering what happens to the VW Santana at 1:20: It's hood is about 1.5m long (judging by the reference strip as well as comparing to it's 2.5m wheelbase). It crumples in about 0.045s, which means that the car's speed is at least 1.5m/0.045s = 33m/s or about 120 kph or 70 mph.
It's probably the case too that the car was loaded
Santana: Great music terrible cars.
Jajajajaja
the santana was a wall-test, it was loaded up with weight to test the barrier itself...
It crumples like 200 km/h
At least you could see where you were going in these older cars. I drove a modern Peugeot SUV the other day and the lack of visibility was scary!
Huh? Just because you have a shitty car does not mean every other car is like that.
And yet the hubcap on the 97 Passat survived without a scratch.
The VW Santana it's a horror thing! :)
it wasnt normal crash test i guess , no 60 km/h i think around 140 km/h
RELAX.. That particular test wasn't to test the CAR, it was to test the RIG. The car was loaded with 1000Kg of sand and was driven into the solid concrete wall (no deformable barrier) at 100Km/h - far faster than car would ever normally crash.
The Santana is a great car
It was with 100 mph
I own a same year passat. So I hope its better.
my god......when i was a kid my dad had a Santana....we traveled true whole Europe with that thing. Now i see this i realise how lucky i am to live today hahahaha.
if you are travelin without engine like this santana then u are lucky.... ua-cam.com/video/LFbM7bPGw1w/v-deo.html
That crash was probably at at least 70mph... No way it would crush like that. Also notice the rear lifting up, showing how fast it must be.
@@xq39 Yeah, I think that Santana test was more of a "facility" test than a crash test of the car itself.
@@xq39 70 mph would be legal speed in Europe when using highways - even in older times. I do not know the speed limits in history but nowadays outside of the towns and villages it is around 56mph.
Anyway for the most of the time it looks like the nuclear power station wall test - when they launched F-4 Phantom aircraft against the test wall. Same disappearing of the body on the contact surface.
my dad used to have 1991 Santana and Jetta too. We were in China, so in 90s we both have Jetta and santana. With 1.6l and 5 speed Manuel
Chuck norris survived the santana.
But the Santana didn't survive Chuck Norris.
@ATHGT how!?!?
He was hog-tied in the trunk.
@@R2ND0MP3RS0N he was in the trunk
He was the wall.
Santana is dead
with all inside in the car
allan deslandes no he still alive singing
allan deslandes--You WILL note CRASH-SPEED is NOT mentioned!!!!!
That was a 60 mph plus head-on crash that one.
Red Devil9---THANKS lotts for the info;---
I just KNEW it was WAYY over the 40 mph
they Usally show!!!
I been saying this for years “what is the song!?”
And why is everyone complaining about the Santana? The Santana was going 120mph or 190kph. So it will happen. If you look at the top left you will see the milliseconds. So it was just going very fast.
1:24 .... HEADSHOT
Lol
Out of all these the Beetle seemed to do the best. Round shapes for the win.
VW Santana was impressive for all the wrong reasons... steering wheel in particular.
yes it was,,for fuck sake,more than half was damaged
But it doesn't the crash test.
Santana flied into a wall. The other cars crashed to a deformable object. so it is not representative. BUT santana is a pice of shit
It was at over 80 kph, maybe even 100, not at 64 as most crash tests.
yea, they would have to scrape your remains from the wall & the steering wheel....lol
The VW Santana had 800 pounds of sand in it and it was crashed at 70mph. All the other cars in the video beside the astro did good
That Volkswagen Santana sure is made of aluminum foil,dayum!
+Nut Zack If you crash it at such speeds, it surely looks like that. I'm sure, that was at least 60mph...
+22fret nope. You can work it out by studying the FPS. Its travelling about 19-20m/s, or 42-45mph. Old cars really were this bad. Modern cars, even small ones are magnitudes safer.
that Santana was loaded.
@@stinger15au last I checked modern cars do drive tests at 30 miles per hour and it almost gets near the passengers every time, bending the door indefinitely, and more importantly hitting into the pillar.
I just remembered there were no airbags back then
In any case, you are automatically moved into the car's safest place in the crash 1:20
This music is just like on those text chat date channel things you get on freeview hahaha
50+ years ago we didn't even have Lap Belts!! I remember going cross-country in a '59 Dodge. No reflective dotted line, 2 lane roads at 75 mph without a seat belt even installed in the new cars. Almost a million lives in America alone were saved in the last two decades due to auto safety. Check the math with a bit of research...
There you go, sir! Have my like!
Watching these makes me so thankful to own a Volvo 850...
where is VW santana after crash :D dissappearing :D
Santanna 1986, Fusca, e Astro dão até um frio na espinha, tem tb outros dois carros com os piores crash test que n estão aqui, o comodore e Volks t3, os famosos bateu morreu.
0:26 latajace kolpaki 2099 roku!!!!!
Ha ha ha ha. The VW Accordion! Great car!
Jajajaja you are bad jajajajaja good joke 😆🤣
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Hallo Carlos..! Seems like so many people love yo'car!
Chevy Astro... Front seat comes and squishes the driver into the airbag, 2:35
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I mean, its a chevy, so id expect that
That black VW just evaporated!
The santana ? Yeah I think it was going 100 mph with weight in back of the trunk causing it to have more force into the wall.
+fevgo303 Here is the link: ua-cam.com/video/KsCgrsVcbfk/v-deo.html
Incase you are wondering why I am not replying to you, it is because I can't send links on my reply.
One of my fav mini vans are Chevy Astro
And that calming music
Do you know the name? I'm trying to know the name for years
@@brutalknife3928 sadly nope
@@brutalknife3928 The closest match to the song playing in this video I could find is a song called "Miss Critical Girl" released back in 2022. Go search it in the search bar.
The Astro looked pretty flimsy too
Very interesting
That time when crush test dummy never made it back to his family after work: 1:19
Good video
a very important info is missing here: what speed was each test performed at?
Yes
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day - The Sixteen
I calculated the speed of the Santana. It was going 111 km/h.
The only survivor of the VW Santana is the guy tied up in the boot! lol
That Santana was the most scary geez whole passenger compartment, GONE!!!! SCARY SCARY STUFF!!!!!
not the back
Faltou mostrar a velocidade que os testes foram feitos
Santana- that steering axle... going completely into the cabin... creepy
1:25 WTF
That was a much faster crash. They'd have all gone like that at that speed.
Because the speed is higher. The VW Bettle crash is at 64 kph and the Santana crash at 100 kph or more.
Protector of the Republic Again, cars shouldn't even deform that much when going 90 mph (144 kph)
Red Devil9 how fast tho. If it was 100km that's still quite bad
Asturian Cetorix
I think that may have been at high speed driving
After the crash it is like 'What a day, what a day!!!'.
thats funny the astrovan folded up so much what did you hit it at 100mph? i was a passenger in a 90's astrovan that hit a telephone pole doing 50 and all it did was bend the bumper in about a half a foot and break the safety thing that connects the steering column to the steering rack. i knew the people that owned the van they replaced the coupler thing so the rack and still drive the van.
The Santana is literally just one crumple zone
El Santana,queda totalmente desintegrado,al chocar.
Pues anda,que la furgoneta...Queda totalmente doblada,por la mitad.
In VW Santana u have to drive in back trunk to survive
Half the car is gone. Jeez.
1:55 Is the vw carbus another term for beetle? Because it just looks exactly the same as a beetle.
Yah it the same :))
Oh very comfy especally in the santana
What was the deal with the VW Santana? Does not make sense compared to the first crash of the wagon. What was the speed of the 4 door version crash?
Just out of curiosity, in what country was the VW Beetle called a "Garbus"
Poland
Germany 🇩🇪
Mars
what's so bad about the passat b5 and the golf mk3... for the era it isn't to bad..
I hope the hell the VW Santana was going fast for that crash test. Wow it was(I hate to use a technical tem but) smooshed!
What's the black and white spinning thing called?
so is the first generation ford focus, found that out through my auto insurance company...when I asked why my insurance was higher then expected
always thought the vw garbus was as tough as a brick
In Germany we call that VW Käfer . . . and I remember it as VW Beetle. Never heard about "Garbus"
I suspect that Santana was at a much higher speed than the other tests. Also the 1985 Passat estate was crashed into a pole - so 80s VWs not quite as bad as they first seem in comparison to 90s ones.
i like 90s car its safe it has airbags
Yes.
Even if it was a super reinforced car which would leave no scratch in a crash at that speed, the passenger brains would simply splash inside the skull, when stopping from 120 km/h to 0 in a fraction of a second.
The best answer by far!!!
VW Santana was doing between 110 and 120 km/h based on calculation (using timer and wheel base of 100 inches). That is partially why it was "smooshed".
Not really a lot of vehicles are tested the same way @ the same speed with a lot less damage
Vw Passat 1985 did very good for that age
People think that because older cars tend to be heavier (at least here in America) that they must be safer. Nothing could be further from the truth. Yes being in a heavier car can give you an advantage if you hit a light car because it is likely that the light car will just slow down the heavy car as the light car gets flung backwards. Also heavy cars have to have better crumple zones to do well in these single car tests. But car safety in general has gotten so much better even just over the last decade or so. I would much rather be in a brand new subcompact than in an 80's or 90's land yacht as far as safety goes.
Your the idiot who thinks 90's and 80's automobiles are land yachts. Why should we adhere what you say as some kind of a known fact when almost everything that you said was a "this is what I think" response.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar I didn't say that all cars in the 80's and 90's were land yachts, I only implied that some cars from the 80's and 90's were land yachts. Look, I am old enough to have lived through all of the 80's, and I was old enough to drive through most of the 90's. So I am very aware of the cars that were on the road then. My first car was an 82 Ford Escort. Was that a land yacht? No! My friend's first car was an 87 Mercury Grand Marquis. Was that a land yacht? Well since it was the second biggest car made in the 80's, I would say yes. Would its 3,737 lbs curb weight make it a land yacht now? I don't know, who cares? It was a land yacht based on the standards of the time. The fact is that I could post some URL's to some statistics from IIHS or refer to my degree in engineering to point out that my response was a little more researched than just "that is what I think", but instead I will just point out that you didn't even read my post carefully enough to understand what I was saying about 80's and 90's cars so you pretty much destroyed your entire argument with your first sentence.
i once met someone that claimed the Chevy Astro was the safest thing on the road, since it was based on a frame chassis... yeah, right...
+Niklas Wejedal in Vans your feet are cut off and many like this Astro almost overturned sideways,,,Once seen a small car crash with a chevy Van that put the Van on it's side
Sign me up for a ride in that VW Santana. Yay!
Some of these are hilarious!
Holy hell - what speed was that Santana going at?
now we have better cars in crash tests but not in reliability and maintenance is a nightmare
How do you figure? Unless you're talking about the German Rube Goldberg machines... on most modern cars you don't have to do anything except tires, brake pads, fluid, and filter changes for the first 100,000 miles/160,000 km.
On an old car... you'd have to adjust the timing, adjust the carb, give it a tune up, adjust the valve lash, rebuild the carb, etc etc.. and by 100,000 miles it was ready for the scrap heap.
Bartonovich52 wait till you get trouble on new cars, old cars are mostly straightforward, timing belt adjust piece of cake on most of the oldies , carbs a lil bit tricky. but new cars, try to even change spark plugs ore a defect light bulb on the headlight I dare you!
If you have trouble changing a headlight bulb or spark plug, you probably shouldn't be working on your own car...
MercilessHobo mister einstein has spoken!
Alessio S Good to know that having the basic common sense to know how to pull a lightbulb out and turn a rachet makes me a genius...
The Santana ...what is different in the test methode? Its from the Car the same as the Passat on start, just another "lable"... Its test runs with 100km/h?
slo mo cameras were this good back then? WTF?
Yeah.. I was just about to say... The Santana was doing well over the standard crash speed...
What the hell is a WV Santana made of? Paper? o.O
its vw not wv.. and it was high speed test 100 kmh (about 60 mph)
It's made of prime pork sausage meat and peoples bodies! :-)
Gergely Nagy lol
Ya
Santana ia dead *OOF*
VW Santana is like Going 100 MPH Brutal
Yes. In fact they were good tens of years before. They were just high speed film (not electronic) cameras.
That Santana looks pretty reliable to me, and a propper car for taking Kids from school.
What speed was the Santana going?
+Louis Doyle Around 60 mph
+Aprig - That was surely more than 60km/h. 60mph seem more likely to me, looking at the damage done...
2kph :D
+Louis Doyle 25mph. Talking about quality.
NO! the NCAP frontal crash test are made at 64km/h (40mph)
vw carbus ? where did you get these names?
trivia: the vw beetle (1940) performed better than golf mk1 1976 and vw golf mk2 1984
What song is this? I like it.
i think that the vw santana's trunk was full of sand and that's why it was so poor. It has much more weight in the back than the other cars.
Классное сравнение!!! Значит Passat 1985 года об железный столб, а 1997 года о деформируемый барьер,с 40% перекрытием, и чего это у них такая разница в повреждениях, ну вот ума не приложу; железный столб и алюминиевый барьер, а в догонку, Santana о бетонную стену, а чего на в барьер? И вообще её Китай выпускал! VW то здесь причём? Только Kefer по человечески и разбили! Машина 1938 года!!! Современные малолитражки не намного лучше проходят!
LOL!!! VW should have named that Santana the VW accordion!!
Damn. What was the crash speed of the VW Santana?????
VW Santana was one big crumple zone. lol
Sorry to put the same comment up again, but the reason the Santana was so bad is that for some reason VW likes to fill the car with weight and fire it at a huge rate of speed to see what happens. That's why it didn't have any markings on it or dummies in it. They also did it with the T3. Watch "What about that VW t3 crash test?" It sums up what I mean
you should try chevy caprice 1985
Bloody hell. What speed is that Santana going at?
That Santana turned into one expensive coffin in an instant. Not that it would be my choice of wanting to be buried in that. Brr.
Als Kind Fand ich den Santana cool :-( Da ist man ja in dem Käfer noch sicherer!
my uncle has a van similar to the Chevrolet astro
1.20 - 1.36 the most scary crash test tht have ever seen now after that i dont want to drive a car like VOLKSWAGEN SANTANA and crash in the highway like this .
Astro broke into two pieces.
i remember when i watch this video when i have 2 years, and im scared with the santana, ah a question, what is the music of the background?
it was shopping music, didnt remember the name ;)
@@DFVkamillo is there at least a link to it?
@@ShiroChikatsu ua-cam.com/video/neIbdrOX20M/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Jazztronaut-Topic
Either that or
ua-cam.com/video/n3QPVC02RcI/v-deo.html both kinda match this song eitherway
1:53 ta errado, esse fusca é 1971
Santana means GRAVEYARD in Papiamentu.
Te veel Heineken op waarschijnlijk
OMG the Santana.
You would be perfectly save if your in the trunk of the santana
I don't think so I pretty sure you would die because you have a high chance of dying of breaking you're neck. it really depends on the position your in