How tough is a mk2?

[Judderi]

After replacing the battery tray and seeing how flimsy the subframe was i started wondering how tough the mk2 would be in a crash. Check this out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNRPRolY6tc&mode=related&search=

Compared with other cars id say not very! Might be time we slowed down a little as our mk2's arnt as strong as we thought.

[Agreeable Slick]

I rolled mine at about 50-60 (can't remember the actual speed) and i crawled out with some cut's bruises and a mild concussion. I am happy with how tough they are.

[VeeDubGTI16v]

^ same here, although i walked out through where the windscreen was

they are tough enough, but it depends what car you hit, a mk2 is a small car by todays standards

[tobz.]

Compared with most other cars of the same age I'd say they were very strong, that's why there's so many of em left!!!

I've carried out quite a bit of private crash testing on mk2 golfs over the years
First test involved writing off a mk2 astra, golf lived to tell the tale.
Second test involved removing several roadsigns as I gleefully hurtled my way straight over the middle of a roundabout (in the same golf as test one). I didn't bother to fix it this time but sold it on for spares. About 5 years later I saw it driving through newmarket still soldiering on!!!
Third test involved careering out of control at 70+mph straight into a steep bank on a country road in my last oakie. It ended up wedged between the banks on either side of the road, once I 'd managed to kick the door open I emerged with just a broken nose from head butting my momo. The car was dead but I'd survived

Now I'm happy with the strength of the mk2 I don't feel the need to crash my current one!!!

[Uruk Hai]

I think considering that the youngest ones are now about 14 years old they're quite strong, my first Golf was written off when someone in a Omega was pushed across the road and head on into me by a white van w@nker. The car was in quite a bad state after but I thought it took the impact very well considering that an Omega is a big motor and we were both doing about 20mph at the point of impact, safety has moved on in leaps and bounds now but I'm so glad I wasn't in some tin foil box like a Renault 5 or some other small car as I think it could have been a different story ! Anyway if I thought they were that unsafe I wouldn't have bought the one I have now and I've slowed down a lot over the last 5 years or so, perhaps I'm just getting old 

[posicarl]

I know its not the same but this has got to give the ricers goose bumps, i know it did to me...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_86RuYXoJA

[Uruk Hai]

A lot of cars would have ended up like the honda in crash that bad, gives you food for thought though 

[Dub_Dude_16v]

I had a white C reg 1.3 a few years back and i went into the back of a stantionary car at 50 mph! Wrote his car off, pretty badly crippled the Golf, no injuries to myself and only cost me £200 to repair!

Bloody solid cars! 

Will see if i can find some pics of the damage later...

[...joe]

not tempting fate or ever wanting to be in a(nother) car crash but everytime you see a crash test film, the cars f**k up royally!! whenever you see crashes on the road by their findings everyone would die but the amount of people that walk away from the types of crashes they test against is alot higher than i always expect.
did that make sense?

[loffaz]

I could of had that LOL