5-Series crash test rating

[robertmajestic]

Hey guys, my friend came across this on a Nissan Titan message board. They seem to think that the 2000 M5 is not a safe vehicle. I just don't like it when people make comments like that without knowing what they are talking about. The 5-Series did better than the Titan on the IIHS crash test. I know it's not much difference, but someone said,

“Thank god you were in the Titan, that Bimmer would have never been able to protect you that way”.

I don't think that was very fair to say when they probably have no idea how safe the 5-Series really is, or all BMW's for that matter. If anyone has any crash stories they would like to share, I would like to hear about them, just try not to trash talk other vehicles without at least looking it up on the IIHS site, we don't want to make the same mistake they did.

http://www.titantalk.com/forums/show...2&page=1&pp=15

[VenomRS4]

It wasnt a new 5 series...but I had a 1987 528e. I slammed into the back of a buick century at like 15 mph and i destroyed that century. I pushed the corner of the trunk of the century in like at least a foot. I pushed my bumper in on one side and my hood crumpled like an inch high (not much). The damage was to my e28 was not too bad. But the buick was messed up.

[Quack]

I know what you mean, people underestimate the cars safety just by looking at it, when they see a small car they think it's unsafe, I work at MB, I hear people saying how unsafe the SMART car is because it's so small, but in crash test the SMART car did just as well as a E-Class, people don't know much about german engineering

[hammerfang]

u can have the greatest engineering in the world (and believe me i think the germans have it) but u simply can not over come the laws of physics, if u have two cars of equal build quality, but one weighs a thousand pounds more its gonna be safer, that SMART car im sure is made/engineered very well, but it stands no chance against something like a suburban hitting it

[IanBMW]

There are about a billion different qualifications as to what is safer. Because first we have to think what is the wreck and situation? Let me ask you this, if you knew you were going to slide off the road into a field with no trees would you rather do it in a SUV or a roadster, and what about hitting a truck head on. All different situations change what we deam safe. I think a driver has about 100x more the input on how safe a car is relative to the cars design.

[IanBMW]

Oh and thank god that guy was in the Titan, can you image crashing a M5...brings tears to my eyes thinking about it.