Ever wondered what it would be like to get your car airborne, just like your favorite action hero? Most keen petrolheads do that when they are teens with their parents' car, but some only reach that crazy state of mind once they are older.
This next crash involves a car only serious people buy, the Subaru Legacy, and a country where only serious people live, Canada. And yet our protagonist decided to live out his Dukes of Hazard dreams and tries to jump his ride.
The following video footage was captured by the surveillance cameras of an auto repair show, which the Subaru hit. You can see very clearly how the Legacy sedan crashes through a fence and flies over a Cayenne SUV and TT roadster parked underneath.
After flying through the air for about 10 yards, the Japanese sedan hits a wall and quickly comes to a full stop.
"I'm surprised that he was able to clear the cars that we had lined up and there wasn't inexpensive cars. There's Porsches, Audis, he actually cleared them. Besides a few branches smacking off the rooftops, he actually did some good air," said Bob Elford, the owner of the auto repair shop, told CTV News.
At the very moment the front bumper touches the ground, you can see all the airbags deploying simultaneously. Without them, the driver would almost certainly have sustained life-threatening injuries.
You might not know this, but US safety organizations carry out such tests where they examine what happens once a car leaves the road. Volvo has even invented special crumple zones at the bottoms of its seats to lessen the spinal damage for the passengers.
I guess all we need now is for the Dukes of Hazard crash test to become an officially recognized phenomenon.
Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida. Full profile
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