Production is moving forward.
New production vehicles must pass crash testing to meet federal safety standards. It’s only part of the process for major automakers that plan to sell many millions of new cars over many years. It’s more complicated for small niche companies such as Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus.
It is so simple. It’s as simple as smashing a steel-bodied Dodgeinto the ground with an exotic carbon-fiber supercar. It is more difficult for smaller companies to prepare for these tests. So, it’s hard to see any exotic car being sacrificed to physics. It is difficult to know how much it costs. This makes it more difficult, especially for the manufacturer.
SCG shared the above footage from a crash test on its Facebook page. Although the exact vehicle involved in this crash test is not known, it looks very similar to the road-going vehicle.
004S three-seater. It was a long wait, but the car is finally here. This was revealed in November 2017.
But, if real progress is being made, one shouldn’t just crash a supercar made of carbon-fiber. Although this is an offset test, it’s not the first crash testing for 004S. In 2021 a prototype went straight into a barrier.
At 30 mph, the company received a passing score. The Facebook post states that the offset test was also passed, which means the company is now one step closer towards production.
We don’t know if SCG repairs the same structure and makes additional tests. We learned in 2019 that Koenigsegg does the same for its certification processes. Building carbon-fiber supercars is expensive. Koenigsegg can lower its development costs by rebuilding one test vehicle and extensive computer modeling. It’s easier for engineers and designers to see one vehicle take the beating than several.
SCG has many projects underway, both on the street and at the track. Crash tests are progressing well on 004S. It may soon join the boot as an industrial-spec machine.