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The automakers have really stepped up their efforts to provide the fire rescue service with useful information on the new technologies. Volkswagen has published several very informative pdf files about the 2011 VW Touareg Hybrid SUV. Several important notes about the hybrid Touareg:

The VW Polo shares the body structre with the US Golf. The VW Polo has reduced the intrusion value from a side impact crash by 20 percent.  So look for UHSS in the pillars.

In an auto show Volkswagen displayed a new Jetta that had been used in an actual side-impact test. What you see in the image below is that the car’s robust B-pillar and sill structure have done an admirable job of ...

Unfortunately, founding information on the type of steel used and the location of any UHSS or Boron was unsuccessful. I’ll put a request in with VW for some clarification. In the mean time, take a look at the VW Beetle ...

Hopefully everyone understands how many Boron and UHSS parts are made from a hot blank. If not, Boron and other UHSS are too hard to be stamped into the shapes and forms required by automakers. To solve this problem, a ...