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They Lived Commercial

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Anyone see this Suibaru commercial? Are they saying Subaru owners are terrible drivers or can survive a horrific car wreck. Looking at the photo @0:16 below, it doesn't seem possible.
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This was my friend's car crash about 20 years ago. He fell asleep at the wheel, went into the forest, and slammed into 3 trees. He woke up in the hospital with a broken toe. The seatbelt he was wearing saved his life.

The car was a Honda Accord.
 
At first I was like, wait, are they remaking or making a sequel to They Live? Nooooooooooooooooo!!!

Yeah that's a stupid commercial as its basically saying that their cars will deform into such horrific shapes that people will be amazed that people survived the crash. Without knowing what the crash was like its meaningless. For all we know they hopped a curb or hit a pothole and that's the damage that resulted.
 
If you look at the shot at 0:16 you're talking about, you might notice that the dash and seats are quite intact, and most of the cabin, except right around the front driver's-side door hinge, is fine, too. It's tore up pretty good, but as long as whatever tore it up wasn't poking through the driver's side windshield, they aught to have lived. All that makes up the car around the cabin took the brunt of it, just as it was designed to.
 
darkswordsman17 said:
At first I was like, wait, are they remaking or making a sequel to They Live? Nooooooooooooooooo!!!

Yeah that's a stupid commercial as its basically saying that their cars will deform into such horrific shapes that people will be amazed that people survived the crash. Without knowing what the crash was like its meaningless. For all we know they hopped a curb or hit a pothole and that's the damage that resulted.
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That's not what the commercial is saying at all. Literally not even a little bit. Every car ever produced can look like that after a crash, so the fact that humans can survive after what can only be assumed was a really bad accident is pretty incredible. Your pothole argument is beyond stupid.
 
Cerb said:
If you look at the shot at 0:16 you're talking about, you might notice that the dash and seats are quite intact, and most of the cabin, except right around the front driver's-side door hinge, is fine, too. It's tore up pretty good, but as long as whatever tore it up wasn't poking through the driver's side windshield, they aught to have lived. All that makes up the car around the cabin took the brunt of it, just as it was designed to.
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This. The passenger cabin integrity held up, and that plus airbags and restraints are what keep you alive in a wreck. For a striking counter-example look up one of those IIHS tests on Youtube where they run a 50's Chevy into a modern small sedan. The Chevy folds up like a beer can.
 
MrDudeMan said:
That's not what the commercial is saying at all. Literally not even a little bit. Every car ever produced can look like that after a crash, so the fact that humans can survive after what can only be assumed was a really bad accident is pretty incredible. Your pothole argument is beyond stupid.
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No shit, I know what they're trying to imply. The point is, without knowing what the wreck was like we have no clue if it actually says a damn thing about their cars' crashworthiness. That's why its stupid, you shouldn't make assumptions on something like this (and based on the "crash scene" at the start, it didn't look like there was anything too terrible about a wreck there, you basically see some broken glass and then this mangled Subaru on the back of a truck), you should know how safe it actually is, which is why most will show their test videos where you can actually see. How a wreck looks often means nothing about what results from it. There's been wrecks that looked like barely anything happened that resulted in fatalities and I've seen cars that look like they were first compacted then torn piece by piece where the person walked away from it.

I can't even fathom how stupid you have to be to take my comment seriously other than you apparently were in a car wreck and weren't in a Subaru and thus suffered some serious brain damage.

Markbnj said:
This. The passenger cabin integrity held up, and that plus airbags and restraints are what keep you alive in a wreck. For a striking counter-example look up one of those IIHS tests on Youtube where they run a 50's Chevy into a modern small sedan. The Chevy folds up like a beer can.
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Yes but again that's meaningless without knowing what the wreck was actually like. I'm pretty sure there are some Chinese cars that look like that from about 15mph collisions. Should they parade their mangled heap going "they lived"?
 
Markbnj said:
For a striking counter-example look up one of those IIHS tests on Youtube where they run a 50's Chevy into a modern small sedan. The Chevy folds up like a beer can.
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I immediately went on Youtube for this and was shocked at the results. I always thought the big tank-like vehicles were safe.....or I never thought much about it at all?
 
The commercial is implying Subaru's are safe cars. Illustrated by the twisted metal that was formerly the engine comparment and drivers side hood area, and the still alive family that was inside it when it went boom.
 
My life long best friend and his wife were killed by a drunk dui defense attorney. They were in their Sabaru Outback. He hit them at high speed in a Camaro. He hit them so hard they were lifted off sr520 and landed upside down in Sykes Creek. My friend's wife evidently died on impact. She was the passenger and furthest from where they were struck. My friend however, had salt water in his lungs, so he was alive but unconscious. When they showed the car on the news, it was being hauled out of the water. It did not even look that bad all things considered.

If you take 520 to Cocoa Beach you will see there is a big fence and a road divider on the little bridge there now. My friends are one of the primary reasons they added those features. Had they been there when the accident happened, at least one of my friends would probably still be here. The car did its job damned well. His wife was a tiny thing so it is sort of understandable she did not survive such a traumatic event.

As to the guy that hit them, he and his passenger were all over the road. Neither was wearing their seatbelt, and both were ejected.
 
darkswordsman17 said:
At first I was like, wait, are they remaking or making a sequel to They Live? Nooooooooooooooooo!!!

Yeah that's a stupid commercial as its basically saying that their cars will deform into such horrific shapes that people will be amazed that people survived the crash. Without knowing what the crash was like its meaningless. For all we know they hopped a curb or hit a pothole and that's the damage that resulted.
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Hahaha I was thinking the same thing.
 
darkswordsman17 said:
No shit, I know what they're trying to imply. The point is, without knowing what the wreck was like we have no clue if it actually says a damn thing about their cars' crashworthiness. That's why its stupid, you shouldn't make assumptions on something like this (and based on the "crash scene" at the start, it didn't look like there was anything too terrible about a wreck there, you basically see some broken glass and then this mangled Subaru on the back of a truck), you should know how safe it actually is, which is why most will show their test videos where you can actually see. How a wreck looks often means nothing about what results from it. There's been wrecks that looked like barely anything happened that resulted in fatalities and I've seen cars that look like they were first compacted then torn piece by piece where the person walked away from it.

I can't even fathom how stupid you have to be to take my comment seriously other than you apparently were in a car wreck and weren't in a Subaru and thus suffered some serious brain damage.



Yes but again that's meaningless without knowing what the wreck was actually like. I'm pretty sure there are some Chinese cars that look like that from about 15mph collisions. Should they parade their mangled heap going "they lived"?
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Don't worry dude, I knew exactly what you meant the first time you said it.
 
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