Very surprising crash test

[Bullhorn7]

http://video.consumerreports.org/ser...id=41311737001

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) celebrated its 50th anniversary the same way we all celebrate our major milestones: by smashing up a classic car and putting footage of it on the Internet.

They performed a crash test of a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air and a 2009 Chevrolet Malibu to show the advances made in auto safety in the last fifty years—thanks in large part to the IIHS. Their original video was a hit on YouTube, and the results were no surprise to anyone with a passing familiarity with cars. What the car-buying public has lost in awesome tailfins, we have gained in safety.

This was a surprise to me!

[C91BLX7]

Technology is wonderful eh?

[Accrdwgnguy]

and wasteful

[Dani Filth]

not me. i saw that long ago.

sad to see the nice car get torn to shreds, but it does debunk the myth that those old boats are safe because theyre big.

[scudweiser]

Marty, he's in a '46 Ford, we're in a DeLorean. He'd rip through us like we were tin foil.

[HenRoc]

Marty, he's in a '46 Ford, we're in a DeLorean. He'd rip through us like we were tin foil.

I guess he did go back to the future?

[mappyCB7]

That's amazing and terrifying Makes me wonder how the cb would do

[Tippey764]

It didn't even have a collapsible steering colum, he was impaled by that steering wheel lol

[lordoja]

you gotta check out the Renault crash test video, makes me want to work for them

[DJ metadelic]

Yeah, ouch. I knew my horse and buggy were unsafe! Especially at near-highway speeds in a front-end collision...

[crazymikey]

I like this video because it completely proves that bigger is not better.

I hate people who say "Oh, I need an SUV cuz I feel safer."

Ok, til you roll over and die.

[93blackcb7]

god damn!!!!!!!!!! shows how much better new cars are built now days that bel air got demolished crazy from the in car view also