I feel a very deep disappointment with Mazda 3’s frontal collision crashworthiness.

The firewall moved a lot during the crash and severely impacted the occupant.

The survivor’s space is pretty much non existent.

All the pillars are very well intact, but the firewall seems to lack proper reinforcement.

A quick search on the web for Mazda 3’s body structure yields an astonishing result. Popularly known as “SKYACTIV-BODY”, it uses extremely high-tensile steel up to 1,800 MPa. Higher than most carmarkers.

But a glance on the front structure, Mazda’s engineers might have “forgotten” the firewall area. It becomes one of the weakest points in the car’s structure.







Judging by the overall car’s deformation, this might not be a high speed collision. At most, it could be just around 60-70km/h.

I have been planning to get a CX-3 since last year. This triggers an extreme caution on my part.

Check Kobe Steal.

Damn. The dashboard can come out like that and hit the driver

This post has been edited by maxizanc: Jan 28 2018, 06:57 AM

shitty preve bankrupted proton

that's not 60-70 km/h

i think you should stop pulling stories out of your ass.

TS thread history suggested that he is here to promote proton

That is too fast

Hello. Well my dad is an Ir special interest in infra designs. Including road safety. First of all he said u csnt compare a collision with a tree or concrete wall with a proper barrier or a car. Totally different . He said one of the worst things to crash into is a freaking tree, second one he can thiknk of freaking concrete wall. I am not sure bout that but he always say if u crash into a tree even volvo also might not survive at high speed.
Anyway looking at the mazda above its a small overlap onto an immovable structure whereas preve seems to collide with something with bigger surface area. Not very fair also. I do acknowledge preve's safety, one of the safest malaysian cars ever. But prever would probably suffer more damage if its a small overlap with a freaking tree trunk

Is that so? Using unfortunate ones to promote something not even sos it. Not even spoiler TS, hope no one or thing comes crying to u, later late at night.

Well, try not to crash into tree then. Drive carefully and not racing like rempit. Safety begin with own attitude,

poi~

The dashboard.. moved so much

Wtf, post like this also someone report?

Probably slept or drunk driving at high speed

well maybe because the tree is narrower than the body of the car. so imagine slamming it into a pointed triangle compared to a wall where the force will be distributed more evenly... my 2 cents

anyway ts u must be damn expert to judge the car was just traveling at 70kmh...u were there is it??

Drive recklessly even u drive a tank also u die

bro who the heck said 70. In fact my whole article was to dismiss TS who said it was 70. Read bro read