They don't make them like they used to - and that's probably a good thing

 

As much as many Americans, as well as people in Europe and Japan, covet the industrial design of what came from Detroit in the 1950s through '60s, those automobiles had their limitations. Back then, the only manufacturers worried about "crush zones" were either the Swedes or the Germans. This video, produced by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safeway, shows what happens when a 2009 Chevrolet Malibu hits a 1959 Chevrolet BelAir. (It was made to celebrate 50 years of research by the Institute.)