Originally Posted by s40guy
Again, thanks guys. I will admit that I am extremely impressed with the solidity of the XF. Instead of a BOOM! and a crunch it was more of a thud and a jolt. Almost "soft"? No doubt these cars are small but mighty.
With this and the picture of the damage, I'm surprised the bags deployed. I've done airbag litigation for manufacturers. All the time people are suing for airbags not going off on a rolled car or a side or rear impact. The lawyers and the public don't understand their purpose. The general rule is that if you survived the accident without life threatening injuries and the airbags did not deploy, then they worked as designed. These things, in their own right, can kill you, and the ones in the dash and the wheel are only supposed to deploy to save your life or prevent/lessen sbh in a front-end collision.