Fatal rollover, hillside rolling down Peugeot 4008 and Volkswagen Tuyue who is safer?

I believe that everyone has heard of violent driving, so have you ever heard of violent car evaluation? Recently, there is a car evaluation program that is on fire! They drove the car to the top of the hill and violently pushed it down. After a free rolling with a height difference of tens of meters, the damage to the body is checked. This is more violent and direct than the static pressure test of traditional body stiffness, and of course, more informative.

It is such a bursting evaluation method that netizens have applauded. After all, in everyone's mind, the more simple and rough the test, the more it can reflect the quality and safety performance of a car. The uncertainty of the environment also subtracts the possibility of human intervention, making the results intuitive and reliable. Speaking of which, one must wonder what kind of car can withstand such a violent test?

Next, we have to mention the two cars that participated in the "Ultimate Cliff Tumbling Test", namely the Dongfeng Peugeot 4008 2022 400THP Creative Edition and the SAIC Volkswagen Tuyue 2021 280TSI Two-Wheel Drive Comfort Edition model.

These two cars must be familiar to everyone. Especially Tuyue, so the former Passat in the China Insurance Research Institute bias crash test "unfortunately overturned", SAIC Volkswagen must have upgraded the safety performance of its models, and Tuyue has just obtained a 5-star performance in the CNCAP crash test, which also makes everyone look forward to its performance.

At the beginning of the race, after the forklift overturned, the two cars rolled on the hard rock and landed on the ground. The first is the Peugeot 4008, which can be seen that the overall architecture of the body is not damaged by major damage. The A-column, B-column, C-column, D-column and side beams are all in good shape. That is, there is no breakage and collapse, and the body frame does not invade the body. At the same time, the door can also be easily opened, which also ensures the rapid escape of the people in the car.

Let's look at SAIC Volkswagen Tuyue. It can be clearly seen that the A-pillar part has a certain bend, and the rear D-pillar is even more seriously damaged - with the collapse of the tail, it is trapped in the body. Car critics commented that "it looks like a Polo." It can be seen that the damage to Tuyue is far more than the skin and flesh injury, but also the internal skeleton, and the situation is very serious. At the same time as the body frame is deformed, Tuyue's car door cannot be opened normally, in this case, the injured cannot be evacuated in time, and their lives may be in danger at any time.

It should be known that Tuyue only uses high-strength steel with 1200Mpa tensile strength, which is lower than the ultra-high strength steel standard and has limited protective strength.

The body structure of the Peugeot 4008 had to be expanded in detail. Above is the new 4008 internal structure drawing, the red part is high-strength steel. It can be seen that the Peugeot 4008 uses high-strength thermoformed steel in important body parts, forming a protective frame similar to the foundation. You know, the proportion of high-strength steel used by Peugeot 4008 has reached a staggering 74.2%, and the tensile strength has even reached 1600MPa. The equivalent of 10 elephants standing on the fingernail caps of their thumbs, or an 18-ton whale pressing against an ant. Steel of this strength is usually used on the structural parts of aircraft. In addition, the number of body solder joints for the Peugeot 4008 has reached 5420, which is almost close to the Volvo S90 (5789 solder joints). It is no exaggeration to say that the safety factor of the Peugeot 4008 is already on the same level as that of the top safety benchmark models.

There is actually a detail mentioned in the test video. The rollover process exposes part of the frame structure, and it can be clearly seen that the Peugeot 4008 uses a silver-white "day" shaped structure of the anti-collision beam, the obvious aluminum alloy material, and the double-layer hexagonal energy absorber box built into both sides. Tuyue only used "big iron" - a thin steel anti-collision beam. As we all know, the collision beam is the component that plays the most direct protective role in the collision of the vehicle, and the size, structure, thickness and material of the collision beam play a decisive role in the damage in the accident. In this regard, the Peugeot 4008 and Tuyue have a high degree of care for body safety.

Unlike other products, the safety performance of the car as a tool for daily travel is more important. Automakers often like to use various crash test results to prove the reliability of products, but consumers prefer to see real cases.

Previously, in a real accident, a Peugeot 4008 avoided a painful loss with a hard body. At that time, a Peugeot 4008, which was running at 110km/h, was squeezed between the large car and the guardrail and dragged for more than 100 meters due to the random change of lanes by a heavy semi-trailer. The ultra-high-strength body of the Peugeot 4008 builds a steel barrier, and the super squeeze and drag does not cause casualties in the car. The vehicle's A-pillar, B-pillar and side sills and other important positions are resisted by high-intensity extrusion, which is enough to see that the rigidity of the Body of Peugeot 4008 is not boasted but real material, just imagine if there is no excellent high-strength body support, squeezed by a large car with a self-weight of more than ten or twenty tons, the consequences are simply unimaginable.

This "ultimate cliff rolling test" is actually a drill on the most real "mountain road rollover" accident scene, simulating the accident scene of rushing out of the barrier and rolling down the hillside when driving on the mountain road. The reason why the Peugeot 4008 will win is not only because of the high-strength body, but also because of the Peugeot brand's consistent pursuit of safety and quality. The official direct price of the peugeot new 4008 Chuangxiang edition participating in the test is 167,700 yuan, whether it is a thoughtful price or excellent product quality, once again proving that the Peugeot 4008 is indeed a veritable high-quality model.