Mr Morlock wrote:Insofar as the std car Mazda said "Welcome to the Mazda safety zone. High tensile steel adds to the protection of the Mazda Advanced impact distribution and absorption system" It then goes on to mention airbags. Under safety and Theft prevention in the brochure it does not mention roll hoops at all. I would take this to mean the car is designed with many integrated features planned by the engineers.
Anyway it does seem the NC is well designed vehicle with safety features.
This isn't meant as disagreement, but do you really think that Mazda is going to mention roll hoops in their sales brochure? Doesn't take much thought of a roll-over to dissuade customers - even if those who really thought about it realise that a roll-over is even less likely in the mx-5 than most passenger cars (esp compared to the much vaunted SUV/crossovers of today's market). Roll-bars must form part of the car's structure - the cutaway pic posted above shows they clearly are - but that doesn't mean Mazda is going to brag about them.
The more "active" roll hoops in some luxury cars are perhaps more 'advertisable' feature, but they have their own problems, don't they? Like going off when high-G force is detected, such as on a race track, when a roll over is not actually in progress.
NitroDann wrote:Comments about soft top frames are silly also IMO.
I would bang my head on a soft top frame full force 5 times to watch that poster do the same once on an unpadded rollbar.
Its going to cut me up and ill have a bad week but I wont die instantly.
Dann
Are you talking about a roll cage or just the typical 4-point rear-hoop roll bar?
I've been in a front-side impact crash (yay for people turning out onto the wrong side of a road, without looking left) at low speed (~45kph combined - since I'd started to brake!) and hit my head on the soft top frame. I wouldn't want to hit it in a proper crash. But there's a 0% chance that I hit my head on the roll bar in any crash without either breaking my neck and being ejected backwards over my seat, or something running over the back of the car so badly that the roll-bar is forced forward over my seat - again, perhaps a bigger worry?
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