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Recently, the well-known car blogger @ Yilu has conducted a Toyota Elfa and Lanto Dreamer 66 km / h offset collision test, the results are very unexpected. As a MPV with a landing of more than one million in China, Toyota Elfa failed miserably in the crash test. It should be noted that the blogger did not release the version of the car that specifically crashed.

After completing the collision test, we can see that the collapse of the two cars is quite serious, especially in Toyota Elfa, where white smoke is even emitting from the front engine. It should be noted that after the collision, the Lantu dreamer turned on the emergency flasher, but Elfa did not, which may not be in line with the regulations. After the collision, the door of Lantu Dreamer's whole car was unlocked, and because the overall structure was not obviously deformed, the door could be easily opened, including the side sliding door. In contrast to Toyota's Elfa, the front door can be unlocked, but the side sliding door cannot be opened from the outside and needs to be broken and manually unlocked from inside the car, a scene reminiscent of an accident in Lexus LM a few months ago.

Toyota Elfa side sliding door won't open.

From the point of view of the body structure, the A column of Toyota Elfa after the collision is seriously deformed and even distorted. Due to the strong impact, the main driving door is also deformed, and the joint between the B column and the roof collapses. Let's take a look at the Lantu dreamer, the A-pillar is also deformed, but the degree of deformation is much smaller than that of Toyota Elfa, and there are also some small deformations on the car body, but it is also smaller than Toyota Elfa.

What is more obvious is that in the car, the bridge of the Lantu dreamer is basically undamaged, and the center control screen can work normally, while the center console of Toyota Elfa is torn apart. As a result, the Lantu dreamer still has some living room for driving the dummies, but the Toyota Elfa dummies have been squeezed into a squatting position and the legs are not protected visually.

After the collision, the airbags of both cars were all ejected (except for the co-driver who was manually turned off), and the heads of both cars were in the center of the airbags, but when Toyota Elfa collided at high speed, the head of the dummies directly pierced the airbags, and the dummies obviously swung their heads after hitting the steering wheel. If it happened in real life, the result would be unimaginable.

After the collision, the blogger also dismantled the two cars to compare the performance of the two cars more intuitively. First of all, Toyota Elfa, the performance is relatively poor, not only the lower end of the A column is bent into an S shape, but also the lower end of the front column is also broken. What is even more frightening is that the lower beam of the main driver is also seriously bent, causing the entire center console to collapse backward. As for the Lantu dreamer, the overall performance is relatively better. Although the A-pillar is deformed, the degree is much lower than that of Toyota Elfa, and the lower beam of the main driver is not seriously bent.

Of course, this is mainly reflected in the use of materials. The specific parts of steel materials are as follows:

In this two-car collision, Toyota Elfa, the king of price increase, did not show the safety corresponding to its price, while the Lantu dreamer, as a 300000-yuan MPV, showed its due safety. In fact, Elfa is only an ordinary MPV model in Japan, but it has landed more than one million yuan in China, which means that it can not be consumed by ordinary people. Some netizens said that people who buy Elfa care more about cognition, even if the product itself does not match its value. Insurance figures show that Elfa sold a total of 16680 vehicles from January to October in 2022, of which 1229 were sold in October, ranking 13th on the MPV sales list.

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