Seems to be a couple of dupes of this. This one is still alive:
https://videosift.com/video/1959-Bel-Air-vs-2009-Malibu-crash-test

And this one, the oldest, is dead:
https://videosift.com/video/SMASH-Crash-test-1959-Chevy-Bel-Air

From the comments in 2009 when this crash test was first released, they won't believe it. People said that it was "obvious" that they had removed bolts and the engine from the Bel Air and that a real crash wouldn't go that way.

Even faced with evidence that modern cars are stronger, they will still say things like:

Engineering improvements or not, the sheer weight and gauge of metals used in the 50's is far superior to the aluminum foil they make cars out of now.

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Structural failure isn't the only risk. The point of modern safety features is to reduce the impact of the crash on the occupants. If you crash an army tank into a large tree at high speed, the tank itself is likely to be fine but the occupants probably won't. In your case, whether your car is better or worse than the average modern car in a crash is probably "it depends".

How does your car compare to the Discovery in http://videosift.com/video/Crash-tests-SUV-vs-Minivan-Which-one-does-better ?

http://videosift.com/video/1959-Bel-Air-vs-2009-Malibu-crash-test

Crumple-zones (and other safety engineering) can be the difference between life and death.

And most crash tests (and star ratings) aren't for highway speeds.
http://www.iihs.org/iihs/ratings/ratings-info/frontal-crash-tests
so 40 mph and 35 mph. If you go up to 55,65,75 mph the difference in kinetic energy is exponentially higher (K=0.5mv^2)

there might have been a mythbusters episode about this...can't remember the result though.

Anyone know if crash test data exist for older cars? Would love to see a comparison to the newer cars.

Fifth gear explained that in the intro to their test. This type of crash is so far beyond the design parameters of the car that it doesn't really tell us much about how these cars would fare in a more normal crash, instead they wanted to demonstrate the total devastation of a crash at speeds that most modern cars can achieve. Oh, and they were curious about what would happen.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/WORLDS-FASTEST-The-fastest-car-crash-test-ever-on-Earth

200KM/H Crash Test has been added as a related post - related requested by oritteropo on that post.

WORLD'S FASTEST: The fastest car crash test ever (?) has been added as a related post - related requested by oritteropo.

Dealers have nothing to do with crash-testing, do they?

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I kept waiting to see the thing spit out a Blue Shell.

Also, seems as safe as other chinese-built cars in crash tests...

Even the best-built cars must undergo crash tests. Your sincerity to the cause of political correctness must be crash-tested the same way.

In case anyone is losing sleep, I find plenty of women funny. Maria Bamford, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kristen Wiig are the tops.

>> ^VoodooV:

>> ^EMPIRE:
In quantumushroom's defense (shudder), I actually think he was making a reference to last week's 30 Rock episode.

I really wish someone would explain to me why people feel the need to defend QM. He says these hateful, racist, and incorrect things consistently, and gets roasted for it, yet people still jump to his defense all the time.
why?