[s-cars] Teen cars Mine vs UrS4 .. Who wins?

[LL - NY]

Mass wins.  Since Newton's 3rd Law guarantees the force of impact is the
same on both vehicles, from F = ma, the acceleration of the more massive
vehicle, reduced by nearly 25% in the case of absolutes, but a whopping 67%
compared car to car, (assuming back of the napkin road weight of 4000# for
the UrS, 3000# for the Mini) means the passengers in the Audi experience 67%
less collision force than those in the Mini. Airbags in both vehicles
mitigate that difference substantially, however, but you're going to be
hurting more (assuming survivable impact speeds) stepping out of the Mini
than the Audi. Side impact, if Mini's have side bags of some form, I'd bet
on the Mini.

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:14 AM, chris chambers <fastscirocco_2000 at yahoo.com
> wrote:

> Gentz,
>
> I can't help but wonder how one of our UrS4/S6 cars would fair in a head on
> with a Mini or the Renault.
> I may be completely ignorant and uninformed but I think the S would win.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: "erikaddy at yahoo.com" <erikaddy at yahoo.com>
> > To: qshipq at aol.com; s-car-list at audifans.com
> > Sent: Wed, December 9, 2009 10:07:49 AM
> > Subject: Re: [s-cars] Teen cars
> >
> > Not a leap at all.  The construction in a mini will destroy the late 70s
> tech in
> > the cgt (or any other car from that era).
> >
> > I wasn't suggesting a mini for a teen, I just used that for illustration
> as it
> > is a small car available in the US.  You were mentioning the construction
> of the
> > cgt in terms of safety and I'm saying almost any 2000+ car makes a cgt
> look like
> > a death trap.
> >
> > Erik Addy
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> > Date: Wed, Dec 9, 2009 00:10
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