How well do Foxes hold up in real crashes.

[faststang90]

my friends car looked like that but on the pass side and it was up to the front a little more. we think if she would have had her belt on she still would not have made it.

 

[cenok is family]

Damn, sorry about your loss. All that and you're still driving a fox even after losing your brother in one. Of course any car would have done that in a similar wreck. I had a 97 Z28 and i always wondered why they made the t-top handles the way they did. Plastic and flush against the t-top and hard to get to. I figured it was just GM crappy interior design, but I guess there was a good reason for it.

yeah a lot of people ask me why i still drive one, i guess its kinda in memory of him. i actually bought my current car from my brother a year before he passed. needless to say i'm never letting go of it.

 

[90mustangGT]

Yeah but that is a hell of a thing to have to live on your consious. Even if it really wasn't his fault, he has to always think of what he could have done and she would still be around. I think if they nail anyone they should have found who let thier dog run loose. Keeping your vehicle in control is #1 priority even if you have to plow someone or something.

 

[faststang90]

where he wrecked at they had a thing where the dogs have to be in a fence or not be able to go in the road. he did get some money out of it but he dont talk about how much it was. he said he would give it all back if it would bring her back.

 

[Shakerhood]

my friend wreck a 92 gt and he broke his back he was in the hosp for a long time. his girl friend did not have her seat belt on and she did not make it. he tried to miss a dog that was in the road but he did not miss it. he had beer in the car but had not drank any and they was tring to get him for the death of his girl friend. he was lucky they tested his blood for alchol when he got to the hosp.

That story sucks too, what did he hit besides the dog?

 

[faststang90]

the car hit a power pole.

 

[Liv2roc]

this was my brothers car . he took a curve at about 90 mph and lost it and a 89 transam hit it in the drivers door. I wish I had the other pix to post on the floor pan . it was ripped all the way across the car, only thing holding the drivers side together is the seat belt. good thing he was not wearing it.

 

[Bay_Stang]

first one. i hait a cow on a country road at about 70. no brakes it was in the windshield by the time i saw it.

this one was an s10 head on at about 60. bent the steering wheel with my head.

 

[MahFiVeOh]

The cow pic kind of threw me off but i suppose its all part of the carnage.

 

[90mustangGT]

Wow, that's the offset crash they talk about, looks like it held up pretty well. I guess it totaled it.

 

[Mustang5L5]

Note to self....hurry up and install STB. Looks like it helped take some of the impact.


I'm so glad i don't DD my Fox. My DD has 8 airbags in it. My fox has none

 

[faststang90]

found this on another site

StangWrecks.com - Photos and Videos of Ford Mustang Wrecks - Main Index - Powered by PhotoPost

 

[xporter]

I think these cars are weakest on the side. I had a friend in high school with a vert GT and she spun out(20-30mph) going around a corner, hit a small tree sideways and ripped the car nearly in half. Her two cousins were in the back seat and were hospitalized for about six months and then years of physical therapy. The were lucky to be alive. The impact broke alot of the bones in the lower parts of their body.

I had just bought this car, finished replacing all the upper engine gaskets, was driving to work the next day and some ****** pulls out in front of me while I was going about 50mph. Here's some pics, car was pretty clean to:

 

[Mustank]

The week I bought my last Mustang (93 GT), my brakes locked up going down hill in the rain, with a traffic light at the bottom of the hill.

I slid into a compact (Opal Corsa) that was parked at the light. And the result was simlar to when two billiard balls hit. I stopped, the other car flew into the corner pocket.

My car only had a small dent in the hood from the handle on the other car's hatch. Didn't even set off my airbag. The other car was totalled.


When I hit a brick wall head on at 40+ mph, on the other hand......The results weren't quite as good, although I did walk away with only airbag burns.