Well it's an innovative ,air bag as it's shared between 2 ppl. Noticed how it first hits the driver and then the passenger ? lol

I've seen that on a chinese car's crash test, actually. I think that it was the Jiangling Landwind or something.

The metros communal airbag

Your face and shins are the crumple zone.

Ya that was me lol

Bloody right, we had a mk1 pushed out the BL factory in a rush to save the company. This thing would of been like a Volvo in comparison.

@@cambs0181 the rover 100 is just a revised metro

@the Game, Review and Reallife Channel You must be on edge everytime you drive it.

I'm still alive and still got one

@@zackgalbraith3555 Try not to crash it.

@@jaggass I've crashed one before and it was repaired

@@jaggass with a wheel on each corner and unrivaled cornering and handling...... we'll do our best! Michael, at the time it was launched, it was as tough as any equivalent Fiesta, Renault 5 or Nova of the time. It started to fail these ever stringent safety tests in the late 90s. The fact it was still in production then, boasting an 18 year production run, was testament to it's popularity.

Exactly the same issue with the original Mini that also had a basic design dating from the late 50's with hardly a thing done to it. To add salt to the wound so many new cars came out during the production of Mini's and Metro's whilst BL was too busy getting screwed over by the government by refusing to invest money in new designs and treating the workers like shite. It wouldn't end there since Rover got sold off privately so it's owners could bleed them dry of profits and again leaving no money for investment on new designs. It's sad how it ended.

@@jaggass To be fair the Mini wasn't particularly crash worthy even for a car from the late '50s. Alec Issignois was confronted about this and said that if somebody got into a crash in a Mini it was their own fault.

- books.google.co.uk/books?id=4XXkCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA196&lpg=PA196&dq=I+make+my+cars+with+such+good+brakes,+such+good+steering,+that+if+people+get+into+a+crash+it´s+their+own+fault&source=bl&ots=dUuThxrN_A&sig=ACfU3U0Sy-H7InqiXYxasXGt-yYTEPGujQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiE9I7Q1__oAhXiVhUIHQh3CikQ6AEwAHoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=I%20make%20my%20cars%20with%20such%20good%20brakes%2C%20such%20good%20steering%2C%20that%20if%20people%20get%20into%20a%20crash%20it´s%20their%20own%20fault&f=false The quote is pretty well known, but I’m not aware of any documentary footage, so if you have an authoritative rebuttal I would be interested to see it.

- kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iquSoLOk2tGpeH0.html The source of the quote is at 4:30 in this video.

Not only the design but the car himself!!!

Its a death trap and i can't imagine how many fireman have had to do the horrible of job of extracting victims out of them.

Had my Rio up to 110 on the A2 to Dartford,trying to keep up with my mates, the steering wheel started to shake like buggery,..."oh shit, back it off a bit" No one believed the performance from that little 1.1 K series. Had her up 90 loaded 4 up with luggage too.Glad I never got into a big Bingle with it though

That's not how physics work.

You mean your face would become your ass and both would kiss the back bumper?

It might not be as bad - most modern cars have proper crumple zones which could absorb more impact than the deformable barrier in the test. I wouldn't like to try it though.

@@markf4720 most modern cars are also significantly heavier than the Rover 100 and their crumple zones are designed to progressively deform based on their mass, not that of the opposing car. As you say I'd rather not try it.

@@roddenshaw yes, that is also true, especially SUVs. I hate to think what would happen if something like an Audi Q7 hit a Metro.

The Rover 100 was actually considerably worse than it's contemporaries. If I recall it got a 1 star. Even at 30mph, a head on crash was something you wouldn't have walked away from....

@@csykes23 Yes. Only the Fiat Seicento performed as poorly as the 100.

​@@roddenshaw The Seicento was a heavily restyled Cinquecento, a car from 1991, and the Saxo was based on the 80s AX. Many late 90s small cars were recycled from late 80s /early 90s models. A more modern late 90s design, like the first Smart, sliced through these tin cans without deforming, there was in fact some crash test proving it.

That would've been a Metro. Pretty much the same car though.

Reminds me of the baddy out of that movie SPEED.

Please for the love of God stop driving it. You could be the safest dude on the road but it takes one pissed idiot coming the other way on an A road to nail you and then this happens :/

@Henry Discipline how can you not agree? People CANNOT drive. They're also extremely unpredictable, no disrespect to you but if you think no more than what you've said then you're scarily naïve...

@@elsden722 Buy a motorbike, it will be safer.

The airbag in this absolute death trap of a car is as useful as a seatbelt on a motorcycle.

Ja deswegen leben sie noch ich hatte den Vorgänger der hatte keine airbags, hatte viel Platz, Stoßdämpfer waren Scheiße die kamen nicht mehr hoch

thats british leyland, whats here is basically a facelifted car from 1980, throughout all the probllems with it it also produced their cars way after they should have been updated, the original mini, first sold in 1959, stopped production in 2000, the original land rover, first made in 1970 made it to 1994, the 1st gen jaguar xj6 was made from 1968-1986 and this, the rover 100 (also called the austin metro) only got a facelift

@@anxiousbottle The Rover metros were completely different from the Austins underneath, shared the body from the A pillar back, a bit more than a facelift

Ich hatte den Vorgänger da von ,der hatte nicht mal Airbags

Rover was always perpetually in debt. The working man's club committee style management was to blame. Not the workforce at all.

Ashley Sutherland The Rover 200/25 (R3) wasn’t a Metro Replacement it was much bigger than the Metro, I can tell you that personally because I proudly own a 2002 Rover 25 and it’s much bigger and has more legroom than a 2006 Vauxhall Astra. I’m 6ft 5 and 18 and will always be a Rover Enthusiast as well as an Aston Martin and Jaguar Enthusiast. The Metro/100 wasn’t any worse than the horrible Fiesta, Corsa and Polo of the time, but the 1995 200 wasn’t its replacement the CityRover did that job in 2003.

The new MINI was supposed to replace both the Mini classic and Metro/100.

@@Rover75ConnoisseurSE check out AROnline.co.uk there's a R3 development story that mentions that it was originally designed to replace the Metro/100 series but was moved upmarket as a downsized premium Escort/Astra competitor. The increased size was dictated by using the old R8 Rover 200 platform that was simply shortened and used a modified Austin maestro rear axle. As typical with BL it was going to be a segment straddling model that wouldn't directly compete with Fiesta/Corsa but by 2005 when the 25 went out of production it was perfectly sized for the supermini sector

@@sutherlandA1 But it’s much bigger than a Metro, it’s an Astra Sized Car, the Metro/100 was really replaced by the CityRover as Rover themselves were going to do a Metro/100 Replacement an actual brand new R6 but didn’t have enough money or time. While the 45 is a Vectra sized car as the 45 Saloon is 2 inches longer than a 3-Series (E46), then the 75 is an Omega Sized Car being the same length as an 5-Series (E39 & E60).

The name of my first band

I bought one second hand recently that looks nearly identical to the one in the video

As a car designed in the 70s under bl it was never intended to live so long and time and technology just left it behind. Believe it or not rover intended to keep it in production until the new mine came along

But in 1997, this horrendous result forced Rover's hand, and they were so disgusted at the negative publicity of the dreadful crash test that they decided to discontinue making the Rover 100. Why make an unsafe car that kills?

IIRC in the early 90’s Rover’s management didn’t think that the Metro fitted in with the move upmarket that they were planning and wanted to kill it off. But pressure from the dealer network, will liked having a cheap car to sell alongside the 600, 800’s and Land Rovers meant that it was renamed the 100. In hindsight a disastrous decision!

It was the original NCAP test that caused its demise, the original plan was to sell the 100 until the new Mini was launched. Ironic that the assumably more dangerous classic Mini outlived its replacement! Other than that the Rover 100 was a nice city car, I passed my test in one.

@@howard81 A car that was created in 1980 to replace a car created in 1959, was taken out of production 18 years later, 12 years after its original manufacturer had ceased to exist, due to safety tests only for the car from 1959 it was suppose to replace, to continue to be made for another 2 years. God you had to love the British car industry.

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Of course.

@@barryshitpeas5837 it is I'm in the middle of saving one at the moment

We're so happy you lived to tell! 😉

Not really, put in one of these the occupant will be driving like Miss Daisy. Put someone in a modern BMW SUV and its 90mph in the outside lane 3 foot behind the driver infront.

Yes it did

Sales collapsed after a BBC expose' and it ended production a few months later in December 1997

When you took one to the MOT, you really wished it was!

The Metro was the best of British design

Many superminis of that era had the same structural deffeciencies. Ncap revolutionised automotive safety standards

It's a shit car, only really loved by people with no taste.

The convertible version actually has a lot of additional strengthening underneath that help make it safer in the event of a crash

It's insane how much cars evolved... My Cruze is fine at 100 mph, it does take a good few secs to get there, but it can sit there.

I bet it was. The only way you could get it doing that speed would be to drive it off a cliff.

@@cambs0181 I'm telling you, ok it was around 95 mph, but used to get it up to that speed on the motorway, screaming its head off it was

They did, unfortunately they did it eighteen years earlier, where the test consisted of driving it at a flat faced wall directly head on at 20mph.

This aged well

That crash went as well as the EUs vaccine policy I see.

All the cars are going in the same direction on duel carriageways or motorways, so you hit something it will or is going away from you, so the collision is reduced. B roads with oncoming traffic, now thats a different story.

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Mate, thats a cut and shut you should get that off the road now!

@@cambs0181 no im never stoping driving a old car

Rather the UK. The sound of drums in Scotland and NI is a tell-tale.

Why? They're not all bad. Only the rover 100s were unsafe

Rover made great cars, the Rover 75 was a really safe car and was rated 4 stars.

@@kieran9246 Euro NCAP said in their crash test report that if the 75 had been fitted with curtain airbags as standard, it would have come close to beating the Renault Laguna II's crash test score.

Judging by this video, I don’t think you would even need a tank...

@@applejuice5272 I’ve never understood why the curtain airbags and traction control were optional extras on the 75.

By Jove, Holmes how did you come to that conclusion?