Since its launch in September 2021, the Versailles C5 X has delivered more than 20,000 units, and it is the appropriate "French annual sales king" for the French car that has been sold for a long time, but behind the glory of this car is also controversial, in addition to driving control and space, many people say that they want to see how the safety performance of versailles C5 X is, and today is finally coming.
This time we are in Tianjin China Automobile Research Institute to witness the Versailles C5 X C-CAP first crash test, test simulation of frontal 100% overlapping collision, collision instantaneous speed of 50km/h, just talk about the results I saw:
No significant deformation was observed in the A and B columns;
The glass of the whole car is not broken;
Four doors and tail compartment lids can be opened manually;
The front anti-collision beam and the zongliang energy absorption box are almost completely collapsed, fully absorbing energy;
The front cabin firewall did not invade the cockpit, and the occupant's knees were not squeezed;
Airbags all ejected;
The family in the back row was restrained in place, and the child safety seats in the car were not offset.
Detailed analysis here is not to interpret, such as the official report of China Automobile Research Institute, but to be honest, only from the performance seen, it has exceeded my expectations, better than expected. Because I have seen many models of crash tests before, but it is rare to be able to perform such a performance as the Versailles C5 X, especially after the collision, the engineer opened the four doors with his bare hands, and the tail box cover may have been opened from the inside because of the power outage, which is surprising enough. It should be known that if the collision causes the body skeleton to deform slightly, the door may not open, and the occupant of the Versailles C5 X can hardly see the deformation with the naked eye.
Here I have to extend the safety design of Versailles C5 X, after all, this car is based on the first model of stellantis Group (a new company merged with PSA) EMP2 third generation platform, the whole car uses double-sided galvanized steel plate ratio of 96%, high-strength steel ratio reached 80%, front and rear anti-collision beams are made of all-aluminum alloy "day" type structure, which is also a rare conscience material of the same level, it can be said that the structure is the real "reinforced iron bone" to achieve the front, All-round protection on the sides and tail.
* Versailles C5 X body structure diagram
In the event of a frontal collision, the Versailles C5 X has a closed-section aluminum alloy anti-collision beam/ honeycomb section energy-absorbing box double-layer ring structure, 6-channel floor reinforcement beam connected to the front bezel and other safety structures, which greatly reduce the damage to the occupant's chest and head; in the case of side collision, it has three safety structures, including tWB thermoformed B-pillar, 6 reinforcing beams including TBB seat beams, and through-type roof curved thermoforming reinforcement plates to disperse the impact force and protect the integrity of the body. At the same time, in the face of the rear touch of the car, the TRB does not equal thickness thermoforming on the longitudinal beam and the aluminum alloy rear beam will give full play to the role of safety and security.
It is said that the passive safety performance of versailles C5 X is designed in accordance with the C-NCAP five-star standard, and the safety performance design of the vehicle system also covers the European E-NCAP and C-IASI requirements of China Insurance Research Institute. So I also expect that the follow-up 25% bias collision, side and rear collision tests will yield good results, especially in the back bump Versailles C5 X controversial FRP trunk cover performance, and how the maintenance cost will be, I think this is what everyone cares about the most.
Editor's comments: "Versailles C5 X is not good" This topic has always been controversial, praise and spit, in fact, from the perspective of onlookers, a car can not cater to everyone's preferences, especially in terms of driving experience, so their own experience is the most critical. But from the perspective of materials, versailles C5X deserves the word "solid", after all, this is still a "Chengdu made global sales" model, safety and quality should not be worried. In fact, the French car has been talking about its chassis adjustment power before, but this time Citroën did not choose to break through from the direction of the best, but took everyone to look at the car from the perspective of safety, which is commendable, compared to the so-called "magic carpet suspension", car safety is more worthy of attention.