Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Death of a Multicab

Here in the Philippines there are lots of little miniature vans from China used for deliveries and are particularly popular as "multicabs", which are basically hop-on-hop-off mini-jeepneys... kind of a Filipino version of the Thai baht bus.

Anyway.

Ever wondered what a multicab looks like in an crash test? As a passenger in the back cargo space, you will be quite comforted to know that the front 5 feet of the van make a really nice squishy-marshmallow-deflatable-pancake-splat thing, keeping you and yours harm-free.

Just don't show this video to the hapless schmucks who actually drive multicabs.

2 comments:

Steve Loeding said...

I saw the same video - YIKES !!! They should have made it out of the lead they put in their toys.

Cynthia Haller said...

Ouch! I haven't seen those minivan in India, but we have a local version that I bet will not run any better in a crash test. It's creepy to think the safest place is in the back where people aren't even supposed to sit anyway huh?