Maruti Suzuki won over India’s car market with Japanese innovation

Re:Maruti Suzuki won over India’s car market with Japanese i... by kranner on Monday October 19, 2020 @01:42AM (#24823607)

VWs available in India are far safer than Japanese cars, if for no reason other than the all steel construction. VWs are heavy too; you'll need more than one person to push if the battery runs out and you have to push start it. You'll have seen plenty of wrecked Japanese cars on Indian roads; they collapse like empty aluminium cans. The post-crash VWs I've seen in India have at least had intact cabins.

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Re:Maruti Suzuki won over India’s car market with Japanese i... by kube-system on Monday October 19, 2020 @09:21AM (#24826097)

Cheap and unsafe cars are also made of steel. Steel is a cheap material and there are many different types of it, of varying strengths.

A car being made entirely out of a strong material does not necessarily make it safe, either. Modern vehicles with good safety ratings are made out of many different types of material of various strengths in different locations. https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/photos/34...

Like any engineering project, design is more important than materials used.

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Re:Maruti Suzuki won over India’s car market with Japanese i... by ramraj07 on Monday October 19, 2020 @04:26AM (#24824286)

I suppose all cars are supposed to crush like aluminum cans in their crumple zones, just the cabin needs to stay intact. But good point, I might try to find a scrap yard just to stroll around and see this pattern!

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Re:Maruti Suzuki won over India’s car market with Japanese i... by andi999 on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:03AM (#24825540)

Fake news. Battery does not run out on VW.

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