Small pickup crash tests reveal Colorado's weak roof, Dakota's faulty airbags

[ifcar]

More IIHS test details and photos here:

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-1017-Autos-Examiner~y2010m2d4-No-small-pickups-ace-IIHS-crash-testing--Nissan-Frontier-fares-best-Chevrolet-Colorado-struggles

[S204STi]

lollerskates, another reason to despise the Colorado, as if I needed one.

[Submariner]

Hehehe...everyone trade in your Toyota's for GM's!

[Laconian]

I blame the inline 5.

So, if it can withstand 1.5x its weight, does that mean that it would hold in a rollover? Or not, because the forces exerted on the roof during the rollover event are much greater?

[S204STi]

I don't know the physics but I'm going to bet that a vehicle tumbling down the road or over an embankment is going to exert a combined force greater that if the vehicle were simply lifted up, rotated, and set down slowly on its roof.