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Old 10-14-2012, 06:12 PM   #128
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Originally Posted by TheRipler View Post
It is, but if you look back to 2002, you will find that the 2002 WRX was the first Subaru B-pillar to thwart the jaws of life. Special techniques were developed for new Subaru vehicles within 6 months. It involved cutting to either side of the b-pillar, and detaching the roof from that structure. It was the diagrams distributed with the new rescue procedures that actually exposed the roll structure Subaru utilized.

Look at pictures of rolled WRXs, STIs, Forresters, and Legacys. You will see that even with the roof peeled back, the roll hoop is still in place. Many examples, the roof itself will peel back in the accident, but the hoop will still be there.

possibilities:

1) The jaws of life have become substantially beefier in the last 10 years.

2) Toyota roll structure isn't as beefy as Subarus. The Subaru hoop would lead to more weight up high in the car, and be detrimental to the low CoG target.

3) The picture isn't clear enough, and I'm fretting over nothing.



Only antibiotics at the moment.

The A-pillar is irrelevant, as it isn't nearly as reinforced as the B-pillar on Subarus. The jaws of life will cut through A-pillars of a Subaru without issue.

EDIT: Most of the old articles are gone or paywalled now. Looks like some cutters are catching up to Subaru and BMW.
http://www.genesisrescue.com/html/BoronHeading.asp#

Terrible accident but should never have happened. Hopefully they catch the other guys racing.

While the car is "designed" by both Subaru and Toyota, Subaru is responsible for almost all of the engineering in the car. The chassis itself is designed by Subaru, Toyota had no real involvement in that. I've seen some bare metal pictures of the BRZ chassis and also the new Crosstrek XV and they are somewhat similar.

Also cutters these days can get through the Subaru B-Pillar design.
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