1997 Mitsubishi Galant
midsize car / 4-door sedan
Moderate overlap front: original test
Rating applies to 1994-98 models
Tested vehicle: 1995 Mitsubishi Galant ES 4-door
The Mitsubishi Galant was redesigned for the 1994 model year.
| Overall evaluation | |
|---|---|
| Structure and safety cage | |
| Driver injury measures | |
| Head/neck | |
| Chest | |
| Leg/foot, left | |
| Leg/foot, right | |
| Driver restraints and dummy kinematics Dummy movement wasn't well controlled. The dummy rotated around the left side of the airbag. Its left shoulder hit a sharp edge of the buckling window frame, which could cause lacerations, and its head hit the window frame. The left knee pushed through the instrument panel and hit the steering column's attachment hardware, producing a gash in the dummy's vinyl "skin" at its knee. |
Action shot taken during the frontal offset crash test.
Severe distortion of the occupant compartment is evident after the offset test, as is the shortening of the driver door width opening.
As in every crash, deformation was greater during the crash than is evident from a photo taken after the impact. The A-pillar was driven backward toward the dummy's head.
Technical measurements for this test
Measures of occupant compartment intrusion on driver side
| Test ID | CF95008 |
|---|---|
| Footwell intrusion | |
| Footrest (cm) | 25 |
| Left (cm) | 32 |
| Center (cm) | 32 |
| Right (cm) | 25 |
| Brake pedal (cm) | 35 |
| Instrument panel rearward movement | |
| Left (cm) | 16 |
| Right (cm) | 15 |
| Steering column movement | |
| Upward (cm) | 7 |
| Rearward (cm) | 17 |
| A-pillar rearward movement (cm) | 25 |
Driver injury measures
| Test ID | CF95008 |
|---|---|
| Head | |
| HIC-15 | 158 |
| Peak gs at hard contact | 40 |
| Neck | |
| Tension (kN) | 2.2 |
| Extension bending moment (Nm) | 22 |
| Maximum Nij | 0.41 |
| Chest maximum compression (mm) | 39 |
| Legs | |
| Femur force - left (kN) | 7.8 |
| Femur force - right (kN) | 2.8 |
| Knee displacement - left (mm) | 11 |
| Knee displacement - right (mm) | 6 |
| Maximum tibia index - left | 1.20 |
| Maximum tibia index - right | 0.89 |
| Tibia axial force - left (kN) | 0.8 |
| Tibia axial force - right (kN) | 1.9 |
| Foot acceleration (g) | |
| Left | 39 |
| Right | 49 |