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Originally Posted by MikkiJayne

A very odd test considering they removed so much of the car, including structural stuff like the screen and the dash. Even non-structural stuff like the prop and wings would have an effect in an impact like that, albeit perhaps not measurably so.

I think their point was to take it apart to scan and measure aluminium components to feed into their 3D computer model and then they left bits off to capture how the important structural bits behaved in real life compared to 3D computer models for them to validate and to make any adjustments. It was not to actually test the car. I imagine at the time there was limited knowledge of aluminium structures in crash as most cars were steel. And from there they coul extrapolate to different speeds and dimensions so that they could sell their expertise to the car manufacturers designing other cars so that they can simulate it before making prototypes