P 71's are TOUGH!!

Florida Highwat Patrol trooper was investigating a fender bender on I 95 this morning. Parked on the left side media, when she was rear ended by a Sikverado doing 97mph. She is hospitalized but alive. Pictures were in this morning Sun Sentinel, but when I went to get them, were gone. Her car was driven into the three ahead of her, one of them was pushed across three lanes of on coming traffic. Nobody dead. Wow.

http://www.florida-caraccidents.com/blog/auto-accidents/florida-highway-patrol-trooper-airlifted-hospital-wreck-i95/

Surprised it didn't set on fire. Or did they fix that issue?

Glad no one died.

Car looked like a stomped on beer can, wish I could find the pics. Drunk driver in a world of hurt now.

IIRC, P71s are rated for a 75 mph rear-end collision. It's impressive what modern engineering can do.

Tom Suddard wrote: IIRC, P71s are rated for a 75 mph rear-end collision. It's impressive what modern engineering can do.

And at 10 years old, it isn't even that modern anymore.

SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: Surprised it didn't set on fire. Or did they fix that issue?

In 2001.

SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: Surprised it didn't set on fire. Or did they fix that issue? Glad no one died.

Rigd test with tools welded to the trunk floor to make sure they punctured.

I have to say, I never really "got" big cars until owning the P71.

Its not as nimble as a Miata, but its certainly more confidence inspiring while driving down back roads filled with deer.

Tom Suddard wrote: IIRC, P71s are rated for a 75 mph rear-end collision. It's impressive what modern engineering can do.

Sure didn't help the KY Vehicle Enforcement officer that got rear ended on the Mountain Parkway. The front of the new Exploder that hit him had less damage, didn't even break the radiator from the 70mph crash. The cruiser, on the other hand, had no trunk left.

Ranger50 wrote:

Tom Suddard wrote: IIRC, P71s are rated for a 75 mph rear-end collision. It's impressive what modern engineering can do.

Sure didn't help the KY Vehicle Enforcement officer that got rear ended on the Mountain Parkway. The front of the new Exploder that hit him had less damage, didn't even break the radiator from the 70mph crash. The cruiser, on the other hand, had no trunk left.

Yeahbut--yeahbut-thats what its supposed to do. You have roughly 5 feet before the rear bumper gets to anything organic. Use that space to slow the impact. The front of stuff has to be tougher, because there is an engine sitting there that must not get shoved through the squishy organic stuff.

Cars are designed to sacrifice themselves to keep you alive.

The thing you have to watch out for is side collisions. I have seen a few of our cabs that get hit on the side, jaws of life used to cut out the B pillar... Not pretty is some cases, but I guess it's gotta be better than an old civic or something.

jere wrote: The thing you have to watch out for is side collisions. I have seen a few of our cabs that get hit on the side, jaws of life used to cut out the B pillar... Not pretty is some cases, but I guess it's gotta be better than an old civic or something.

My sisters 00 Civic almost killed her when it got hit in the side. 2 star side rating.

In reply to Grizz:

Wow my baby sister drives one of those. Didn't realize it was that bad.

In reply to Grizz:

That's why I drive a Corolla, at a whole 3 stars on the side, 4 front. I've seen what happens when a E110 get hits in the side at 60+mph just ahead of the drivers side B pillar by a midsize car, it caves in about a foot (I could lean on the B pillar and be inside the wheelbase) but the driver was walking in a couple days with minor injuries. Dude riding shotgun walked. Cutting that car up was fun, so much energy it actually popped all the tarboard off the sheet metal, broke the transmission case, etc.

Civic in that wreck would have turned to dust, I'm willing to trade a bit of fun for a lot more bank vault in my DD.

Racer1ab wrote: I have to say, I never really "got" big cars until owning the P71. Its not as nimble as a Miata, but its certainly more confidence inspiring while driving down back roads filled with deer.

how many deers does it take to fill a P71?

Ranger50 wrote:

Tom Suddard wrote: IIRC, P71s are rated for a 75 mph rear-end collision. It's impressive what modern engineering can do.

Sure didn't help the KY Vehicle Enforcement officer that got rear ended on the Mountain Parkway. The front of the new Exploder that hit him had less damage, didn't even break the radiator from the 70mph crash. The cruiser, on the other hand, had no trunk left.

Sounds like it handled the collision just fine, then.

Streetwiseguy wrote: The front of stuff has to be tougher, because there is an engine sitting there that must not get shoved through the squishy organic stuff.

The engine doesn't get squished into, it is supposed to go under. And it takes a lot of hit before you get to that point...

I did an intake manifold (really, the lower coolant tube) on a Marquis last week. Everything was spiffy until I got to this weird bracket on the left side rear of the engine. It sat across the top of the intake manifold but bolted to the BACK of the cylinder head, with another bracket bolted over it. All of this is while trying to work under the wiper motor bulge.

That thing, which had a name I've forgotten already, solely exists to keep the wiper motor from shearing off the left side fuel rail in a very bad collision.

From Here.

That car is FUBAR. The truck driver is charged with DUI.

Holy berkeleying E36 M3!

Ho Li Fuk

novaderrik wrote:

Racer1ab wrote: I have to say, I never really "got" big cars until owning the P71. Its not as nimble as a Miata, but its certainly more confidence inspiring while driving down back roads filled with deer.

how many deers does it take to fill a P71?

Depends on how hungry I am.

that is not even recognizable as a car anymore. How she survived that, I will never know

that will most decidedly not buff out.

fasted58 wrote: Ho Li Fuk

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