AutoBeta(AutoBeta.net)01/17 Report--

As the two joint venture brands with the best performance and quantity in the domestic automobile market, there are no more German and Japanese brands. For a long time, Japanese cars have been instilled with the saying that they are "thin and unsafe". Until many Toyota models adopted its latest TNGA platform, they were impressed by the excellent performance of PICC. On the contrary, Volkswagen, as a representative of the German department, has frequently encountered "rollover".

It is this as one of the reasons that the advantage of Toyota brand has gradually caught up with Volkswagen in recent years. In order to see whether the safety of the Toyota brand is really much better than that of the Volkswagen brand, recently, some media made a big showdown between the German and Japanese brands, and selected two of the best-selling models on the market, so this test is worthy of attention for many consumers.

On January 17, Byte Jump's automotive media platform "understanding car Emperor" released a video of a head-on collision between Toyota Corolla and Volkswagen Suiteng, which uses a 50% offset collision between two cars at 64km / h. In other words, during the collision test, both Toyota Corolla and Volkswagen Suiteng completed a head-on collision at a speed of 64 km / h and an overlap rate of 50% (driver side), and finally evaluated according to the degree of deformation of the car body and dummy injury data.

This time, the Toyota Corolla is the 2021 1.2T S-CVT avant-garde version with a guide price of 119800 yuan, while Volkswagen Suiteng is the 2021 200TSI DSG comfortable Zhaopin version with a guide price of 150900 yuan, both of which are owned by FAW Group Joint Venture. Two of the models are equipped with head side air bag side air curtain and knee air bag. It is worth noting that FAW-Volkswagen has a speed of 2021 models, which means that the new model may improve the over-safety of vehicles, including the strengthening of a large area of the body, because of the warning of SAIC-Volkswagen, a "brother car company".

After the end of the collision between the two cars, the 64km/h and 50% offset collision tests were completed, but the end result is that, on the surface, the Toyota Corolla of the Japanese brand collapses more obviously, while Volkswagen, as the representative of the German system, has no obvious collapse, which shows that the structural performance of the Toyota Corolla after the collision is slightly weaker than that of Volkswagen.

Volkswagen Suiteng after the collision, the car door can be easily opened, the car airbags have been ejected, and good protection to the dummy. On the whole, the structure has not changed much, including no bending of the A-column and a large amount of intrusive front, and the overall frame remains good.

In contrast, the invasion of the Toyota Corolla is obviously longer than that of Volkswagen, the degree of collapse of the front is relatively serious, the deformation of the firewall below is also larger, there is an obvious gap in the door hinge column, and there is a small area deformation in the A-pillar, but the whole is also relatively complete, because the door lock will not be opened automatically after the collision, resulting in the door cannot be opened from the outside. Although the internal airbag is also well protected to the safety of the dummy, the internal deformation is also significantly greater than that of Suiteng.

In addition, many deformations can be seen from the top of the Toyota Corolla, but it also shows that Carola absorbs energy through the whole body.

After the completion of the disassembly of the vehicle, the structure of Toyota Corolla is also more obvious. In addition to the deformation of the firewall and pedals below, the central channel is also distorted. And the squeeze during the collision leads to the sinking of the central channel. It is worth mentioning that the Corolla has become the most severely deformed model in many collision tests in the media.

From the final result, Volkswagen with poor performance in PICC is significantly better than Toyota, which is the best in PICC, and the car body is also significantly tougher than Toyota Carola. Although this does not rule out the possibility that Volkswagen has made structural improvements to the 2021 models to make the body more rigid, the Toyota Corolla did come as a surprise in this test. In this regard, some netizens said: "the TNGA war against MQB confirms the folk rumors?" The actual combat king is still killed in actual combat, and the real car collision test is really different.

As the two best-selling A-class cars in China, they are also trusted by consumers through their own advantages, of which Toyota's new TNGA platform won 343400 vehicles in 2020, ranking third in the domestic passenger car market, while Volkswagen's annual sales volume was 299800, ranking last among Volkswagen's best-selling models and fifth in passenger cars.

Welcome to subscribe to the WeChat public account "Automotive Industry Focus" to get the first-hand insider information on the automotive industry and talk about things in the automotive circle. Welcome to break the news! WeChat ID autoWechat