Samenvatting
Hybrid front end car design provides a straight forward approach to achievement of compatibility during crashes between the smallest and largest cars as well as all other sizes between. Compatibility means optimal conditions for occupant survival in frontal, side and rear collisions through a broad range of closure speeds and potential obliquities. Hybrid front ends consist of designs producing primary load paths trough short stroke, self force regulating hydraulic cylinders in series with crushable structure.