Horrifying photo found on safetyforum.com

boingo82 · #1 03-07-2002, 04:54 AM

The driver ended up a quadriplegic. Better not roll in this car...

Cue-Ball · #2 03-07-2002, 12:07 PM

I think the G20 is just as safe as any other car on the road (i would dare say it's safer than most). Given the right circumstances, occupants will die no matter what car they're driving. No vehicle is 100% safe. Personally, i feel very safe driving my G. It's a fairly low-slung car with good handling and great safety features. I don't know about the P10 but the P11 has driver and passenger airbags as well as side impact airbags. For the money, there are far worse cars to be driving than the G20.

Mike.Com · #3 03-07-2002, 12:23 PM

It's pretty hard to roll over a G20 without some wierd situation. She ran over a something (QUOTE: causing vehicle to ramp up a guy wire) that made her flip over. In that case, most any car is going to be smashed up. It says she tried to avoid a head on collision by steering out of the way...there have got to be some weird circumstances to that whole incident.

That picture of the driver's seat is unnerving though...:apuke:

howard_w13 · #4 03-07-2002, 03:33 PM

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Originally posted by Cue-Ball
I think the G20 is just as safe as any other car on the road (i would dare say it's safer than most). Given the right circumstances, occupants will die no matter what car they're driving. No vehicle is 100% safe.

True. Even the S-class Mercedes with all its safety innovations was inadequate in the accident that caused Princess Diana's untimely death a few years ago

. And the car didn't even rollover, it just slammed into a support pillar inside a tunnel at 120+ mph.

boingo82 · #5 03-07-2002, 07:20 PM

Oh I know...I'm not critisizing...I love my G and realize you're really not safe in any car especially at high rates of speed. I could never find crash test results from NHSAA or the Insurance Institute but the Primera was rated Excellent and Recommended by the #1 insurance provider in Europe.

PatrickG20 · #6 03-07-2002, 07:27 PM

My 93 G20 saved me from a serious accident a couple years ago. I lost control of the car at about 60-65mph, the rear started fishtailing back and forth around a turn, and went sideways over the 9" tall concrete curb and down an embankment. The car didn't roll at all. All the suspension was shot and it took $5k in repairs, but I'm still driving it today. Most other sedans or any SUV would surely have rolled and my younger brother and I surely wouldn't have walked away from that crash like we did in the G20. If anything, we would've ended up in the 10' concrete drainage canal a few feet away.

T4 Primera · #7 03-08-2002, 02:45 AM

In case anyone was wondering, a 'guy wire' is a rope or stay used to tie a mast or pole to the deck. Picture one of those power pole that has the wire stay tying it to the ground. Now picture one side of a car ramping up that wire at speed. That car probably hit the pole roof first.

DaPCWiz · #8 03-08-2002, 09:02 AM

Since we're on the topic of crashed G20's... I found this pic of a G that hit a pole @ 120 MPH and the car tipped onto its side... the driver walked away uninjured

here is the story:
http://www.car-accidents.com/pages/a...iti_11_20.html

boingo82 · #9 03-08-2002, 08:01 PM

Wow, he was lucky. At that speed...

Does he have some kind of dash kit on that car?

JustinP10 · #10 03-13-2002, 01:20 AM

I feel extremely safe in my G20. With the second track event just passing, I feel safer than ever in my G. The first event I went to I spun twice (yeah, yeah...) the second time around a long sweeper, probably somewhere around 70-80mph the rear end kicked out, and it just went out farther than i could recover. I just put both feet in, and the car came safely to a stop, I didn't feel in danger at any point. The car is VERY solid, and it would take a LOT to flip a G, you'd probalby have to hit something sideways to flip it, or have a blowout and have a rim catch going sideways, or something like that.

TRBOBRK · #11 03-13-2002, 01:34 AM

Another crashed G20 is on eBay as a parts car. Here

Isn't it wierd that all the bad G20 accidents occur to the same ugly purple color???

boingo82 · #12 03-13-2002, 01:39 AM

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Originally posted by TRBOBRK
Isn't it wierd that all the bad G20 accidents occur to the same ugly purple color???

Creepy.......good thing mine's silver.

TRBOBRK · #13 03-13-2002, 01:58 AM

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Originally posted by boingo82
Creepy.......good thing mine's silver.

Good color

boingo82 · #14 03-13-2002, 03:09 AM

Likewise.

hybridamp · #15 03-13-2002, 09:16 PM

I myself was hit in the rear end in my G about 3 weeks ago by some girl who didn't realize that me and the 8 cars in front of me were sitting at a red light. $1,800 of damage, now fixed by her insurance company, but I didn't get even the slightest bump or scratch out of the whole ordeal, it just really PIS*ED me off and Im a little cautious when female drivers are following me and the light turns red. lol.

Hi marks for the car, low marks for female drivers in Chevy Trucks.

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