I hope the TCH is built this safe! - GreenHybrid

haroldo · #1 (**permalink**) 04-06-2008, 03:20 PM

A must see NASCAR crash video. The driver walked away unscathed. I wonder if the TCH would hold up as well. I hope no one ever has to find out the hard way!

Frodo · #2 (**permalink**) 04-06-2008, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by haroldo

A must see NASCAR crash video. The driver walked away unscathed. I wonder if the TCH would hold up as well. I hope no one ever has to find out the hard way!

Bet you THAT left a mark or 3

As to your second point - no way. While I'm sure the TCH is well-engineered, the crash energy it (or any street car) is engineered to deal with is nowhere near the energy that race car dissipated. Heck, climbing in over the roll cage cross-bars would get old in a hurry. And where would you keep the hybrid battery, with all the bracing tubes in the way?

No room for luggage, either.

won-g · #3 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 04:44 PM

Goof point Frodo, but I would say that for a street car the Camry Hybrid is a pretty safe car. Just don't try to bend corners at 185 mph. lol

flopshot · #4 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by haroldo

A must see NASCAR crash video. The driver walked away unscathed. I wonder if the TCH would hold up as well. I hope no one ever has to find out the hard way!

If you think how the NASCAR CoT is built has anything to do with how the stock TCH (or any Gen6 Camry) is built in terms of safety, you are kidding yourself. There is no correlation whatsoever. It is a completely different car from the frame all the way up, there is probably not a single stock part or design element from a production Camry on that CoT. The only requirement is that the outside skin has some resemblence to the production car.

haroldo · #5 (**permalink**) 04-08-2008, 02:52 AM

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Originally Posted by flopshot

If you think how the NASCAR CoT is built has anything to do with how the stock TCH (or any Gen6 Camry) is built in terms of safety, you are kidding yourself. There is no correlation whatsoever. It is a completely different car from the frame all the way up, there is probably not a single stock part or design element from a production Camry on that CoT. The only requirement is that the outside skin has some resemblence to the production car.

Thanks, but in truth, I am very well aware of that.
My post, like almost all of my others, was a bit tongue in cheek and need be read with a wee bit of salt.
The post was more a marvel at the safety engineered into one of those cars as that was one of the most horrific crashes I'd ever seen where the driver was able to walk away.

vioarc · #6 (**permalink**) 04-08-2008, 10:05 PM

I believe my TCH if far ahead of "The Car of Whenever" in one crucial safety component -- functioning headlamps.