How Safe Are Vipers?

How Safe Are Vipers?

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mamba

Original Poster:

52 posts

148 months

Friday 5th October 2012
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Cockpit seems in-tacked how was this so tragic?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaGZVY_97Pc

mamba

Original Poster:

52 posts

148 months

Friday 5th October 2012
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Anyone translate?
At first I tought it had rolled but this doesnt seem to be the case.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGuCu7BvcPw

mamba

Original Poster:

52 posts

148 months

Saturday 6th October 2012
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Looking at the viper chassis is seems the car is of very stiff construction, Dodge have tried to create weak points in the chassis to promote some sort of crumple zones but due to the nature of this open top roadster I would imagine this is difficult to achieve without losing rigidity.
It strange how there isn't any crash testing data available on the net for these cars!