1959 Chevy Bel Air vs 2009 Chevy Malibu

NJmaverick

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Sat Sep-19-09 08:14 AM
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1959 Chevy Bel Air vs 2009 Chevy Malibu

A head-on crash test to that shows how far we’ve come in designing safer cars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CU-k0XmLUk&feature=player_embedded

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Tobin S.

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Sat Sep-19-09 09:00 AM
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1. I would have thought that those old cars were tanks

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NJmaverick

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Sat Sep-19-09 09:07 AM
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3. The old cars were heavy and had plenty of metal (thick metal)

Edited on Sat Sep-19-09 09:11 AM by NJmaverick

but the new cars are modern marvels of engineering. Engineers have created cars where force and energy is diverted around the driver, rather than through the driver.

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Tobin S.

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Sat Sep-19-09 09:00 AM
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2. duper

Edited on Sat Sep-19-09 09:00 AM by Tobin S.

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