So, what I get from this ad is that the part to replace costs MORE than buying a brand new Porche, so he buys the new car instead?

The main thing this tells me is that the test was (slightly) rigged in favour of the new car. It was a test designed to make a point rather than to honestly demonstrate the difference.

Of course, it does make that point, and it makes it well.

ANCAP is the Australasian New Car Assessment Program, so *downunder.

Yeah, I started with that one but chose the one with better resolution and two different engines. Unfortunately there was no sound.

I didn't know whether to be happy or sad. Like seeing your mother-in-law drive off a cliff in your new car.

I think these guys kinda missed the point.

It's not whether you should buy an ICE or an EV. If you have to buy a new car and you can afford it, of course, an EV is the better option.

The point is that you don't need to buy a new car as long as your old one is working fine.

Haha, yeah. I hear those hypocrite "environmental activists" talking like that too all the time. Especially with the last part you can expose them easily. Buying a new car to save the planet...
Buying a used one is actually the best way to go, if you really care about the environment. But that doesnt offer as much prestige, of course.
Gotta love seeing these public AGW shills too, like Neil deGrasse Tyson, driving around in a 2.5 ton Audi long version with 450 HP.

Remember kids: If youre a hypocrite, nobody with at least half a brain will believe you anymore in anything.

Sure, but I drive a Bronco with a full roll cage....not a bel air. I would crush that bel air too, and the Malibu. Bronco's are tough enough to do both, they have a thick full tube frame and heavy metal body, not a weakened C-channel or less covered in plastic. Mine has a >300lb industrial steel bumper as well.
My other car is a 73 CJ-5, also with full roll cage and with 4 point seat belts, that is tall enough to drive right over both of those cars or, if not, turn them into convertibles. ;-)

So yeah, I still think I'll do WAY better in a crash than an average new car.

You better be sure about that. Because they make most airbags, and have a limited production capability, they've been allowing them to install new, but still "bad" airbags in new cars under the theory that they won't go bad for about 6 years, and they hope they can recall them again before that 6 years is up. Chances are they're doing the same with the replacements if there's not a legal reason that they aren't allowed to.
Insane, but that's the report I read last week....unfortunately I don't remember where.

"...and then I bought a new car, and it was a Porsche...."

Yeah, this really is beyond horrifying.

"PC is more scary that open totalitarianism"? Nope, here's your real villain: stealth totalitarianism. Fuck over your fellow man in the name of a higher score.

"Chairman, oppressing the citizenry is hard work!"
"Fear not! I have a cunning plan to make them oppress each other"

And by god will it work.... put a number beside a name and people will do anything to make that number go up.

As an example: my wife got a new car recently that shows your average fuel consumption in l/100km. I didn't pay any attention to it until I was playing in the settings and found I could switch the units to km/l. A completely innocuous change, right? Except now it's a number that can go up, and I am obsessed with making it go up everything I drive her car.

I set cruise control at the speed limit and brake as little as possible.

A/C? Not unless I am actually melting!

Corners? You'd be amazed at how fast you can round them if you let a machine control your speed!

Red lights? Er, yeah, I suppose I should stop, but then I'll have to accelerate again!

And that number doesn't even matter! FSM only knows what I'd do if it affected my mortgage rate or something....

That sucks and everything, but this seems a bit fishy...

* "State Farm decline to pay for the car's repair, as I was a few hour past the deadline for comprehensive coverage."
The way I read that suggests that it is either a brand new car that he hadn't yet purchased insurance for beyond mandated liability, or that his existing policy had just expired. Both would be kind of red-flag timings for an accident.

* "They also raised my rates and removed my safe driver discount, even though I have never been in an accident that was my fault in 8 years of driving. So that seems a bit unfair."
Getting into an accident raises your rates. Even if it wasn't your fault. This particular incident, giving him 100% of the benefit of the doubt and assuming that it was a medical condition that he had no control over, is still something that an insurer might (reasonably in my opinion) determine to be "his fault". At the very least, they would want assurances that the condition wouldn't happen again; but honestly it would probably be a safer bet (which is what insurance adjustors are all about) to drop his coverage entirely as soon as legally possible.

* And that last one doesn't just apply to the insurer... If that happened to me, even if I had never passed out before and had been driving for 8 years without issue, I'd want to be DAMN sure that it was 100% medically explained and 100% medically under control so that it wouldn't ever happen again before I got behind the wheel of ANY vehicle again.


So yeah, it seems ... fishy. On the other hand, It does seem like it would be hard to have no reflex-level reactions to plowing into fenceposts etc., as in the video. So it might be 100% legit -- but even then, all of the above still applies.

"Congratulations! Manuela just gave you a new car and created a new job opening on The Price... is Right! We'll be right back."

It is. The thing is can you afford the risk. $10 most people can afford the risk without going homeless, but maybe they would have to skip pizza that night and make KD. Just increase the bet, If you could bet your car, today against somebody's porsche in a coin toss, it's a great bet. You also could very reasonably choose not to because the loss of your car is a greater disadvantage to you than gaining a new porsche. It's cost of opportunity, and for a wealthy person, risking a cheap car for a much better one at 50/50 is a bet they can afford to take. For a pizza delivery driver supporting their family it's a choice between maybe coming home with a porsche or coming home without a car, without a job and no means to buy a new car any time soon either.

Probably get a really good deal on those new cars that were on display...

Sure, yea, right now it is, but the way things are going it's not far of that a majority of new cars are going to be electric or at least partly electric, especially since this technology is still a bit off.
I like the Free Piston Engine Linear Generator better since it's literally only one moving part (save for the myriad of pumps, valves and other assorted crap all engines have) and has a small size, but it will also be a stopgap measure on the road to pure electric.
And sure this might end up in a few specialized vehicles, but it won't revolutionize anything.