Crash Test 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air VS. 2009 Chevrolet Malibu ⚠️ OLD CAR vs MODERN CAR

[@conio58]

The A pillars of the Belair doesnt even use the roof as a structual unit. They are angeled straight up and just collapses.

[@jordan7126]

I like how the headlight ejected from the car

[@Jacob-sq6dx]

Maybe that bel air is in a museum to show how much safety has improved

[@bwfextreme]

Back when your airbag was the whole front-end of the car

[@bsmy84]

I think the point was well made in the first minute or so. Doesn't seem to warrant repeat after repeat for 4:40 Also, I thought to myself, are they really doing a crash test on a classic 1959 Chevy? Really?

[@srirachasauce8430]

It's a 4 door. No real loss.

[@elizabethleee]

I'd love to know what speed the cars are going. I can't seem to find that info in the video or the description.

[@matthewgray9752]

So, did the dummy in the older csr end up dying from having his head being smashed against the caving roof?

[@truthteller8274]

Yeah, you're not walking away from that alive.

[@wooden2187]

Now which car looks like plastic? 😂😂

[@ALLMOTORSTV]

;)

[@jescruz5465]

1950s car are deadly bec. it has no crumple zone?

[@upforellie]

It's a combo of no crumple zone and no mitigation for the interior literally collapsing in on the driver. YMMV.

[@bossv8818]

The whole car is a crumple zone lol

[@SkipperUSA30305]

There didn’t seem to be an engine in the 1959 Chevy.

[@magicpyroninja]

Not the result I was expecting. I fully expected the more solid steel car from the old days to basically slice right through the cheaper made lighter cars of today

[@williamcruz3993]

New cars crumple when in accident.

[@taylorsopko5807]

Its clearly a rust bucket that was structurally compromised before the test. I mean look at all that red dust LMFAO. Not a good example.

[@ballisticwaffles]

@@taylorsopko5807 Cope lol.

[@taylorsopko5807]

@@ballisticwaffles cope with what. Ive totaled modern cars with my Cutlass and i was fine, they were hurt, and their car was gone. i was able to just drive home after, This videos a joke. Clearly either rusted or they did something to it, cut or drilled the frame.

[@GFmanaic]

@@taylorsopko5807 There are people whose job it is to think of every detail before doing this kind of testing. They spend month, plus have the data from the whole lot of testing they have already done, to plan better and better tests. You're doing napkin math in the comments of a youtube video. Sit down son. It is a good example and you are wrong.

[@randylmacwhite9666]

Real thick steel vs. less thick steel 😅

[@mac02364]

I agree with someone else said this crash test is definitely flawed the Bel-Air panels didn't even seem like they were bolted on and remember those cars back then used a hourglass frame there were no side frame rails so the Malibu hit just sheet metal

[@happycamper7440]

No way this is accurate .. That older car would not crash like that . The older car was rigged to crash that easy ..

[@gisacecani409]

you're a retard

[@LuneyToonz-lk2de]

What a waste.

[@Owen-hg3cu]

Why?

[@AXMIM]

the air bag didn't save my friend. 2005 jetta

[@pssolutede]

Truly sorry for your loss, but yeah, while airbags save a lot of lives, unfortunately they can't save *all* lives, and can't be reasonably expected to.

[@SkipperUSA30305]

We lost a coworker driving a ‘02 Jetta. Got rid of our ‘04 the next week.

[@WayneCondon-ui5ok]

Fake passenger finder wasn't even bolted that is a fake car I had one and hit a 02 jeep Cherokee and totaled that jeep I drove home

[@taylorsopko5807]

This video has a major fault. That car has decades of rust, you can see the red dust flying everywhere. it wouldn't be the same if they were both new.

[@abalcerzak1931]

It woudn't be exactly the same but the result would be : the Bel Air driver would be dead, badly injured or cripled for life, and the 2009 Malibu wouldn't. The Bel Air have no airbags, no crumple zones, no collapsible steering wheel, no disc brakes and not even seat belts. It wouldn't be less deadly if it was made of titanium. Look what happened to the CyberTruck few days ago. Look at the statistics of lethality year by year. Older cars looked way nicer, I agree. But they are far for dangerous by today's standards. I'm glad they didn't used a $60.000 perfect condition Bel Air because it would be an expensive, useless and stupid waste.

[@stevewilson6813]

Why were components of the Chevy removed? This can't be an honest independent test

[@Samster1978s]

I noticed that Too they removed the engine to get it to crunch like that.

[@taylorsopko5807]

​@@Samster1978sit's rumored they removed the engine to drill out a portion of the frame, i think it was just a rust bucket that was structurally compromised before the test.i mean look at all that red dust.

[@oldsaddad7274]

@@taylorsopko5807 you're the only one saying this. and you're saying it all up and down the comment threads like a fucking lunatic

[@FemmeMalheureuse]

@@taylorsopko5807 Nonsense. The engine is visible at 1:00 when it continues in forward motion not having been stopped by the impact. The force of the impact broke the engine mount bolts and the engine continued forward (that same forward motion is why airbags are required to prevent driver/passengers from flying through the dash and windshield). The crash didn't impede the Bel Air's inline engine compared to the Malibu as the latter is transverse mounted, somewhat lower than the Bel Air's engine, and in front of the passenger in US vehicles. Your nostalgic propaganda insults all the US automotive designers who've worked hard to make vehicles safer especially after the 1973 Ford Pinto.

[@jimmyhebert828]

All rigged up for show the steel bumpers would have tore new car in too

[@tysonatkins2236]

Yeah, but how about when your knees slam into the steel dash? Or when that steering column jousting javelin goes into your sternum?

[@IncoherentMoron]

how do you figure steel bumpers getting past the engine block

[@jayspeidell]

"The earth is flat because I can't see the curvature."

[@scrappy93]

You have zero clue lol.

[@richeywcassel]

You actually want cars to crumple and be destroyed to reduce the Gs imparted into the occupant.