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Originally Posted by MAC
the majority of them that I see look like you'd get completely unrecognizably crushed in a highway accident.
where as if something like the crown vic or old caprice were to get in a crash like that, it'd hold up a lot better.
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I suspect that crushing isn't the usual cause of injuries/death in accidents, bodily acceleration and impact is. Those things are mitigated by a car that gets crushed (crumple zones, anyone?). It's not about the car holding up, it's about the people. Anyway, you can't argue with results, and today's little tin can cars are safer than large (or any) cars from an earlier era.
Well, unless you get crushed between two 80,000 pound trucks that collide head-on, simultaneously T-boning you from both sides, both running red lights when you had right-of way...but then you're pretty well screwed either way.
Anyway, I'd love to see GM put something like the Fiero on the market again.