18 September 2009 - 12:00
Malibu slammer
A Short Series of Interesting Car Crashes We Didn't Expect to See on a Monday#1: 2009 Chevy Malibu versus 1959 Chevy Bel Air.
Allow us to explain. To celebrate its 50th birthday, the American Insurance Institute for Highway Safety decided to stage the crash to show how far car safety has come since the Fifties. How thoughtful. 'Happy Birthday! Have a car crash!'
Most people would simply have bought a cake.
Still, the results are quite literally smashing. You'd think a lump of old Yanky iron would stand up well against a hunk of 21st Century plastic and poncy aluminium. But then you'd be wrong...
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austinmartin commented on this article
at 09:47 am on 21 September 2009
That is just insane. You can see that The Front end of the malibu had made it through the engine block and into the cabin of the Bel Air. That would be an absolutely devastating scene if that was real life
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