Honda Element crash test results up

[rayray2]

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has finally evaluated the Element! Gotta hand it to those Honda engineers! Designing such a cool looking vehicle with good crash scores to boot!!

link

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: rayray2
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has finally evaluated the Element! Gotta hand it to those Honda engineers! Designing such a cool looking vehicle with good crash scores to boot!!

link

cool looking? you actually like it? do you like the aztek too? might as well slap some plastic on a gmc safari van.

oh, the only thing this test simulates is running into a wall.

 

[vi edit]

That's because the car is so damn ugly that trees, concrete pillars, and other vehicles move to avoid touching it.

 

[Beau]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: rayray2
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has finally evaluated the Element! Gotta hand it to those Honda engineers! Designing such a cool looking vehicle with good crash scores to boot!!

link

cool looking? you actually like it? do you like the aztek too? might as well slap some plastic on a gmc safari van.

oh, the only thing this test simulates is running into a wall.

ROFL! My thought exactly!

 

[cmv]

I think it looks pretty funky but nearly as bad as the Aztek. I wish the Aztek had looked worse so I could pick one up for dirt cheap. It probably isn't all that bad of a vehicle in terms of mechanics (4 wheel drive, right?).

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Probably because its made entirely of plastic that it absorbs accidents better

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: cmv
I think it looks pretty funky but nearly as bad as the Aztek. I wish the Aztek had looked worse so I could pick one up for dirt cheap. It probably isn't all that bad of a vehicle in terms of mechanics (4 wheel drive, right?).

awd. similar, but not the same.

 

[conjur]

The Element is NOTHING like an Aztek. The Aztek was just Pontiac plastic body cladding and horrid angles and piss-poor design. The Element, yes, is boxy but at least has some style. The interior is very well done, Honda quality, decent engine and gas mileage. It's like a really inexpensive version of that Mercedes Gelandewagen (sp?).

 

[Eli]

I, too, like the Element.. and I think comparison to the Aztec is hardly fair. There isn't a damn thing wrong with it.. A few of the color schemes, I admit, do make it look a little strange, but there are good ones too.. black/black, red/black..

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: conjur
The Element is NOTHING like an Aztek. The Aztek was just Pontiac plastic body cladding and horrid angles and piss-poor design. The Element, yes, is boxy but at least has some style. The interior is very well done, Honda quality, decent engine and gas mileage. It's like a really inexpensive version of that Mercedes Gelandewagen (sp?).

I wonder if that's what I saw the other day...

The back end seemed to look almost exactly like the Element, but it wasn't a Honda...

 

[Dudd]

Originally posted by: conjur
The Element is NOTHING like an Aztek. The Aztek was just Pontiac plastic body cladding and horrid angles and piss-poor design. The Element, yes, is boxy but at least has some style. The interior is very well done, Honda quality, decent engine and gas mileage. It's like a really inexpensive version of that Mercedes Gelandewagen (sp?).

And that Mercedes is an ugly car just like the Element. Even though Honda and Mercedes have good reputations does not mean that they can't make an ugly car, as the Element and the Gelandewagen have proven.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Eli
I, too, like the Element.. and I think comparison to the Aztec is hardly fair. There isn't a damn thing wrong with it.. A few of the color schemes, I admit, do make it look a little strange, but there are good ones too.. black/black, red/black..

the ugly pontiac-like plastic cladding is wrong with it.

 

[ConantheBarbarian]

Honda Elephant

 

[Marshallj]

Originally posted by: rayray2
Designing such a cool looking vehicle with good crash scores to boot!!

Hahaha, oh man. Don't get me started on that lunchbox.

If cool looking = putridly disgusting, then that Element is extremely cool looking.

 

[conjur]

Guess I was just a little biased. Worked in sales at a Honda dealership for a couple of months. There was an Element in the showroom most of the time and it was fun showing the way the seats could be moved around and the lack of a B-pillar.

 

[Eli]

I don't think it looks bad in red. Come on guys, it's just a small SUV. And that's exactly what it looks like.

 

[nmcglennon]

The Honda Element, like the Aztek, is an abortion of a car.

I don't know which is more pathetic, the designers who came up with that, or the company who agreed with them.

They should all be drug out to the street and shot.

 

[Jzero]

I love it. Of course being a male 23-year-old kayaker/surfer, they pretty much designed the car with me in mind. You are a target market.

 

[nmcglennon]

They should have put more design into the Honda Element and less marketing.

Who wants to pay thousands of dollars for a plastic exterior?
...Might as well drive a rubbermaid trashcan.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: nmcglennon
They should have put more design into the Honda Element and less marketing.

Who wants to pay thousands of dollars for a plastic exterior?
...Might as well drive a rubbermaid trashcan.

Better not buy a Corvette, then

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Eli
I don't think it looks bad in red. Come on guys, it's just a small SUV. And that's exactly what it looks like.

you mean its a van.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: Eli
I don't think it looks bad in red. Come on guys, it's just a small SUV. And that's exactly what it looks like.

you mean its a van.

Yeah.. small van. I was going to say it was a minivan, but.. that wouldn't have gone over well.. lol.

 

[BigSmooth]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
That's because the car is so damn ugly that trees, concrete pillars, and other vehicles move to avoid touching it.

LOL

 

[Howard]

It's not that bad. It's actually useful, which is more than I can say for the other crapfloats out there.

 

[Furyline]

I don't doubt the Element's usefulness and safety, but I saw 2 of those today, and I just think they look ugly. It's like a big box. Boxes are useful and all, but you don't think of a box as cool-looking.

Mike