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Old 08-06-2009, 08:20 PM   #254
syr74
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As has been stated here already a car is not rated on how the car looks after a crash, but in how well it protects the occupants from the impact both through actual physical intrusion into the cabin and through the transmission of the force of the crash into the cabin which may not actually leave major physical distortion post impact. In the case of the Camaro video you can actually see the doors/roof of the car distort temporarily as the force of the crash moves through the front of the vehicle into the cabin area. Watch the video of the crash tests for the Mustang and Challenger, you don't see the same distortion as the force from the impact travels through the car which would tend to suggest those forces are being absorbed and or dissapated before they reach the passenger. Without doubt that isn't helping the Camaro.
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