The Galant difference is quite striking. Also, that Xantia pic is HORRIBLE! That's worse than Blazer / Trans Sport.

Yellow Dart:

Exactly... waht I forgot to mention and yopu touched upon was that the most dangerous accident is stil with a tree, stone wall, telephone pole or whatever else will not budge at all when hit by a car/truck.

Look at how Princess Di bought the farm. If they had hit another car, or a guardrail thta would budge slightly she'd probably be alive. But at 120mph into a cement post she ended up with small fragments of radiator embeded in her chest. No joke. Stil they say wiht a seatbelt she might have even survived that.

So as much as these tests err on the side of mildness sometimes even in the real world people survive the unthinkable.

And this was an SL300.

Edited October 14, 200520 yr by Sixty8panther

Last gen. Park Ave. -- S O L I D --

Yep, the body guard of Di who was in the front passenger seat survived the crash. He was the only one wearing a seat belt. It looks like they cut off the roof, btw.

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G-bods rock. Period.

And am I the only one that though there should've been a worldwide safety belt awareness campaign centered around Princess Di's death? According to traffic investigators, she was sitting in the safest position given that impact.

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Well, I suspect you cannot get any more direct in a comparison of old v. new with the above test.

Holy cow Empowah.... that's a eye opener right there... no B.S. apples to apples comparison. :huh:

I wonder if you could find a Cobalt vs Cavalier hit. Or Celebrity vs Impala. Or ???

Wonder when IIHS will be testing for axe-resistance:

Edited October 16, 200520 yr by empowah

We have a silver '04 BMW 7 series with 22" spinners that got shot up outside a bar... hmmm... wonder why someone would do that? <_< :rolleyes:

Axe resisent?



:lol:

My god, GM obviously didn't put much effort into the structure of those vans. At least they make a good crumple zone for other vehicles..