wow!!!!!!!!!

glad your alive.

 

"it's only a flesh wound!"

 

After looking at those pictures I am astounded (and pleased!) that you are okay. Good luck on sorting it all out and I hope the moron that hit you gets what he deserves.

 

If you can read this message, roll me over... like my old Jeep Wrangler.
Sad sight to see a MINI that way. I hope it's totaled so you can buy a new one.

 

Lol Yeah It's definitly totaled.

 

Any word on finding the hit and run truck?

 

No nothing yet.

 

Please keep in mind that it wasn't a Mini vs a F-150 directly, but rather both in separate tests against a standard barrier. A Mini vs a wall will do better than an F-150 vs a wall. But a Mini vs a F-150 head-on would be a different scenario...

 

Perhaps not!.. Have you considered trying a clay bar on it?.. I hear they work wonders..

j/k.. Glad you're still with us.. Hate to see the temp tag on the back of your car.. It's a sure sign that you haven't really had a chance to enjoy the car before it went to the big Mini graveyard in the sky..

 

This stuff is 5 years old. Today is FAR far different.

And a MINI hitting a F150 head-on, MINI looses, period.

For the OP ...

 

On the bright side in the week we were together i put about 1500 miles on it (work related) so I'm unfortunately hooked and will hopefully be ordering a new 07 MCS in the next few months.

 

Has your insurance paid off the loan for the MINI that was totalled?

 

Kind of like when Homer Simpson backed into the royal carriage..

"That'll buff out, I think that part was loose already, oh, and that's *supposed* to be on fire..."

 

Yea ummmm OK guess you've never seen a Ford after an accident. They bend up like an old pop can. My part of the country is nothing but PU's and you see alot of them at the body shops after a good snow. You would have a much better chance in a MINI than a newer PU.

Glad you're OK gerbil !

 

No one's saying that the MINI doesn't do well in collisions with stationary objects. It certainly does, partly because the only kinetic energy in that case that has to be dissipated is the kinetic energy of the MINI, and since kinetic energy is proportional to mass, the lighter weight of the MINI helps it out in this regard.

But in a head-on collision *with another vehicle", you have to dissipate the combined kinetic energy of *both* vehicles, and the F-150 has almost twice the curb weight of the MINI, so it has twice the kinetic energy, assuming both vehicles are traveling at the same speed. If the truck is moving just 50% faster than the MINI (like 45MPH versus 30MPH), the truck has almost *five times* the kinetic energy of the MINI.

Because of the way energy is transferred in a collision, the structure of the lighter vehicle has to absorb some of the energy from the heavier vehicle, in addition to its own energy. So, the frame and body of the MINI are going to have to absorb some of the energy from the truck, and it's frankly not up to the task.

 

pointless to discuss

 

When did I say anything about just hitting stationary objects? Trucks are made to withstand very different forces and built to different spec's than our MINI's are. Have you compared pic's of trucks that have rolled? How about some pic's of trucks in accidents like at www.wreckedexotics.com. I have seen dozens of trucks that have been in accidents with passenger cars and every one of them has been in worse condition than the car. You can't compare the crash worthiness of our cars to a truck simply based on weight.

Guess my engineering background doesn't count chows.....ya putz

 

NM, not worth responding to insults.

Believe what you want.

 

What, and your remarks aren't insulting.......LOL

 

Major faux pas!

 

Was the hit and run driver ever identified and caught? Did Naked Assualt Gerble ever order a new Mini Cooper? Enquiring minds want to know!

 

WOW!! Did all the air bags deploy like I'm guessing they should have??
Very glad you are okay!!!!!!
Enjoy your new MCS!

 

Glad you're OK.

I am also wondering about the air bags - there are, what, 5 or 6 of them in the MINI? Did they all go off, and more importantly, where they involved with you walking away? Hard to tell in the pics, but didn't really seem like any of them deployed.

Separate note - the pics were bad enough to see, but were even more disconcerting since my High Energy is also Liquid Yellow.....

 

Airbags aren't design for rollovers and won't deploy without an impact to the front bumber or side of the car..