
Crash test
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Search complete. 6 mentions across 2 episodes found for "Crash test".
Oct 19, 2026
Supercars & Hypercars w/ Spike, Jay Leno, and Lukas Czinger
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7:15Lukas CzingerGUEST
... building the capital base, building the employee base, building the scale behind the business to then start Zinger with capital in the bank, not needing to fund the business off reservations or our customers, with a true mission of, okay, we can build this the right way.
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7:30Lukas CzingerGUEST
So we had some patience, we had some strategy in the way we started it, and then we said, "We wanna be a full OEM, so we're gonna do something pretty hard with our first car, which is create a platform, create a powertrain, electric plus the V8 engine in it, create the full electronic architecture, create the passive safety, so all the crash testing, right? This car has airbags.
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7:49Lukas CzingerGUEST
It's gone over 40 crash tests.
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7:50Lukas CzingerGUEST
We're gonna do all of that the right way so we have a strong foundation, right? Otherwise, you're trying to sell cars that you can't register.
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8:02Spike FerestenHOST
Right.
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8:02Spike FerestenHOST
Right
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8:02Lukas CzingerGUEST
... to actually do the emissions and crash testing on a vehicle.
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8:05Lukas CzingerGUEST
So we signed up for it once we were ready to do it, and then it was still damn hard and, and we spent five years, uh, developing the 21C, got it into the market last year, and, uh, now we've got a business that I think we can build one of the great performance car companies off of, and-
What You Need to Check Before Buying a Campervan Conversion
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7:39Tom HeeneyGUEST
I think so.
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7:40Tom HeeneyGUEST
If they don't know about approvals at all, then that will be a bit of a worry, and you'd have to really dig down then into, well, do your swivel bases have crash testing? Does your seat system have crash testing? You'd have to go individually, really, to ensure the safety of your family that you're going to be travelling in these camper vans.
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7:59Tom HeeneyGUEST
I don't think there's many converters that wouldn't know how to answer those questions now, really.
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8:05Tom HeeneyGUEST
Myself and Dan, we go to the NEC, so...
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8:28Tom HeeneyGUEST
They'd remove it from the show if it...
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8:31Tom HeeneyGUEST
if it didn't meet all of that criteria.
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8:33Matt SimsHOST
Now, you mentioned crash testing, and I haven't considered that swivel seats have to be crash tested.
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8:39Matt SimsHOST
I always think of the rock and roll bed.