1997 Volkswagen Passat
midsize car / 4-door sedan
Moderate overlap front: original test
Rating applies to 1995-97 models
Tested vehicle: 1995 Volkswagen Passat GLX 4-door
The Volkswagen Passat was restyled and re-engineered for the 1995 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 right side of the seat moved forward along its track about an inch, and the seat pitched forward and to the left. The dummy's head hit the roof rail and door frame, finishing outside the occupant compartment in the gap left between the two structures. |
Action shot taken during the frontal offset crash test.
Despite outward appearances, the occupant compartment was seriously compromised when the floor buckled in the offset test.
Dummy movement during the crash wasn't well controlled -- the dummy's head finished between the roof rail and door frame.
Technical measurements for this test
Measures of occupant compartment intrusion on driver side
| Test ID | CF95016 |
|---|---|
| Footwell intrusion | |
| Footrest (cm) | 25 |
| Left (cm) | 36 |
| Center (cm) | 25 |
| Right (cm) | 20 |
| Brake pedal (cm) | 23 |
| Instrument panel rearward movement | |
| Left (cm) | 8 |
| Right (cm) | 6 |
| Steering column movement | |
| Upward (cm) | 10 |
| Rearward (cm) | 9 |
| A-pillar rearward movement (cm) | 7 |
Driver injury measures
| Test ID | CF95016 |
|---|---|
| Head | |
| HIC-15 | 150 |
| Peak gs at hard contact | 53 |
| Neck | |
| Tension (kN) | 1.4 |
| Extension bending moment (Nm) | 30 |
| Maximum Nij | 0.38 |
| Chest maximum compression (mm) | 25 |
| Legs | |
| Femur force - left (kN) | 6.9 |
| Femur force - right (kN) | 2.8 |
| Knee displacement - left (mm) | 8 |
| Knee displacement - right (mm) | 9 |
| Maximum tibia index - left | 1.86 |
| Maximum tibia index - right | 0.46 |
| Tibia axial force - left (kN) | 1.1 |
| Tibia axial force - right (kN) | 0.8 |
| Foot acceleration (g) | |
| Left | 120 |
| Right | 116 |