Posts Tagged ‘highway’

Modern vehicle safety not overrated, as it turns out

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

To celebrate 50 years of smashing cars to bits and pieces, the American Insurance Institute for Highway safety tracked down an old (but roadworthy) 1959 Chevy Bel Air and threw it in the direction of an oncoming 2009 Chevy Malibu. Now you’d expect the steel-and-girders Bel-Air to tear through the aluminium and plastic ‘mid-size sedan’…but, you’d be wrong. Very wrong.

(more…)