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Originally Posted by brucepick
Full safety cage, three airbags, and long front/rear crumple zones. Overall length and width are right up there with medium size sedans. The skin is FRP (fiber reinforced plastic?) with painted on finish, which is better than molded in color. Body frame skeleton is high strength steel tubing.
Designed for a five-star safety rating. However the official goverent agency test is only done on cars so Elio will have to get their own done.
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I hope they don't try and do their own but send it to the regular test facility. Still there will be no getting around physics. The tests simulate hitting something of equal mass, odds are you will hit something with twice the mass or more. The Elio will look like somebody used it in a suicide bombing while the other car will be reparable with no injuries.