Those air bags really do the job!

Wow. There’s a lot of engineering going on in that split second. Hopefully, none of us will ever experience it from the inside. As most of us know, the Institute gave the Maxima its highest rating for frontal crashes. It is one of their “best picks.” I am always impressed with the passenger compartment strength. The roof line, floor, A, B, and C pillars all remain straight. Very cool stuff.

Ahhhh the memories....... The Maxima sure is a safe car, I am living proof!!!

For those that don't remember, or are newbies, this is head-on at 35mph (my speed) the other car, a minivan, was doing 35 as well!!







-MO-

ouch.......................

um, looks like majestic blue in video to me.
(my vid card > * )
they know better than to waste good onyx paint.

they knew better than to try that with a liquid silver.... we would've broke through the wall lol....

MObruin, you are one lucky son of a gun! That picture looks scary. Glad you made it through.

mobruin: noticed your mirror was folded in (I think some one asked this before) and had no damage.... how?
in the video from the crash test, you can see the rear view mirror just flying after the hit..

wow...these cars sure do take a beating in an accident. all the crumple zones. Sure hope to never test it out.

it look safe to me hope never to try that out in my car or anyone elses

I feel safe w/ my family in the car; like most said, hope never have to find out.

HOLY CRAP!! Thanks for the video.. Glad to see you are alright from your wreck, MO... How did it feel, besides that.. Safety wise? IT's always different unless you have been through it. Hw about the air bags? I have the side airbags too.. Let us know bro... Again glad to see how these babies play out during an accident, but sorry to see it so messed up.. LAter.

??? Maybe my mirrors were built better?? Maybe because its an SL??? Cause its Majestic Blue??

Honestly I don't know. I do know they were open before the accident.

Trust me guys, this is one hell of a safe car. One of the biggest reasons I wasn't badly hurt is the fact the footwells didn't crush at all.

Hopefully no one will go through an accident like this, but its good to know that this car will protect you from the worst.

-MO-

They need to do more testing... Crash all the 6th gens


j/k

Define badly hurt??

I remember running into a ditch at the end of a (T) intersection, about 40KPH, someone thought it would be funny to steal the stop sign. I thought it wasnt when my car was sticking out of the ditch azs up in the air and all. That was an olds and that was a hell of a steabelt burn I had on my chest. Only 40KPH.

My uncle got cut off at an intersection and to avoid the hitting a family van he swearved audi A4 out of the street into a fence and then a barn and inside the barn into a concrete divider. He still feels that one in his collar bones (SNAP). That was 60-70KPH.

Thanks,

Kam

Well, the seatbelts hurt alot as do the airbags; but those are bruises that go away in a week, I can only imagine what it would've felt like if I had hit the steering column!

The worst part was a slight hairline fracture of my tailbone.....this took about 2 months to heal and it meant not being able to sit down on anything without pain (toilet especially).

But here I am 3 months later and I don't feel any pain at all. In fact, unless I think about the accident, its like it had never happend. I am very thankful for good insurance and a safe car for allowing me to get my life back quickly.

-MO-

Anybody noticed how the driver side window moved forward like that without breaking? A slight movement to either side could impale someones head no?

Now that you mentioned it... Try not to stick your head out the window while crashing.

Ha! Good comeback

In all seriousness though, that's not the issue. Much like all these crash-test scenario's, "what if" you get hit at an odd angle that forces your head to move towards the window but just before the curtain airbags deploy to push your head back? As you'll see in the video, the side/curtain airbags deployed much later than the front bags.

Wow, that's amazing. Almost no deformation of the passenger compartment.

If that test car had been an ONYX SL it would have swerved to the right and avoided the crash.

good luck mobruin!! hope u have no more of them airbags EVER! nissan or what ever u have now (was it a bmw?...my memory is poor...)

Is your shimmy that bad?

Those dummies really take a beating!

Did they have to use a Onyx Max?

That video was something. As far as head on crashes go here is my Saturn after a 35 MPH head on with some dumb *** girl that cut me off. Week later I took delivery of my Max

Feel bad for all the ONYX owners. Oh well to bad !!!

I think it was Majestic Blue, not Onyx.

Skyview held up too!

Hey Mo, didnt you have springs on the old one?












BTW, the test max is m/b.

Nah, I have them, plus the RSB, but I never put them on. But since i got the exact same car, I plan to finally install them soon.

-MO-

Yeah, what he said. ^^^^^^