I dont reckon it would matter if the bel air had an engine in it or not, you still woulda ended up wearing it on your lap, looking at the way the dash folded. Besides if you're gonna own and drive a classic like that you would tend to be pretty careful with it these days.
all of you saying it has no engine... since when has the engine came anywhere the bonnet? if im right, im sure they had a lot of air gap space in corners? ALSO please tell me why the exhaust at 0:20 does not move untill seconds after the accident happened? if it was "tied down" it would of moved straight away from chassis flex. you would see it wobble it moves as the front wheels meet, which seems right.
because you can tell theres no engine from a small.. black gap centrimeters wide.. ¬¬
Talk to my buddy about the difference between old and new. 4 years ago he was hit head-on at about 45mph in his 1968 Camaro by a 2004 VW Passat. Within a couple of minutes the lady driving the VW sitting on the curb calling her husband on her cell phone. My friend had to be cut out of his Camaro. He spent quite some time in the hospital with a broken left ankle and foot, a broken right wrist, 2 broken ribs, a broken jaw and 4 teeth missing, along with countless bumps, bruises and stitches.
what a bunch of bullshit! these muderfuckers totaled a clean 59 chevy with cat eye tail lights for stupis test! FUCK THESE MUDERFUCKERS I WILL NEVER BUY A NEW PLASTIC CAR!!! CLASSIC IS THE BEST! THOSE WERE REAL CARS! WHAT HAPPENED TO AMERICA?
There are so few of them in the world and now there is one less.
The least safe cars that NCAP ever tested were the Fiat Seicento, Citroen Xanta and Rover 100 and those were not designed for safety. Why wreck a beautiful classic to prove something which everyone knows?
Imagine the crater door ding the Bel Air can give or the 5 mph damage from a light hit in a parking lot? The Bel Air wouldn't have a scratch and the bumper would cause $2000 damage to the 2009 Malibu like a sledge hammer hit it. I'm glad they didn't use a good looking Chevy in this test, or a real classic two door version. These sedans are pretty ugly, and worthless. The color was already a wreck.
anyone else notice the mass amounts of rust (dust) pouring out the the lower chassis @ ~1:03...the 59 was by no means in "new" condition. Structural integrity compromised from the start.
FUCK THIS MOTHER FUCKING SHITHOLE THAT RECORDED THIS! THEY THINK "Well, duh, I just wanna be a moron and wreck this beautiful car, Duh" WELL IT FUCKING DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY!
Nothing here was faked as far as the old car failing. Seats breaking loose during a collision is also documented on videos of crash tests done by GM on cars of this vintage. It is not the damage to the car done, this is about the safety of the occupants. The 59 may have done better in a full contact frontal collision, the 2009 is designed to withstand the offset collision seen here.
First of all, the unibody frame and other load-bearing structural materials of a Malibu are made of steel. Plastic chassis AFAIK don't exist (carbon fiber doesn't count). The bumpers of the 1959 Impala are made of (very thin) metal, but pre-1970s bumpers disintegrate in high-speed impacts without doing anything because there's nothing behind the surface. Being big and heavy means nothing--a 1959 Impala is far more likely to kill you in a crash than even a modern subcompact.
i hadd a 77 chevy and crashed it into a 99 ford exp. i was gong 45 and hit right cornner of the suv and f**ed it up broke 3 windows and both of the balljoints the front of the suv was on the ground and my truck was rusted like no other and still i drove away i drove it 6 blocks away to my frinds .... so if you take out bolts and make sume cuts shure anny car will smash like that.........for the record i think that is an impla also....
For one, when the bel air collides with new car, you can see a cloud of rust. As cars get older, the materials into building the car deteriorate, therefore becoming less strong, such as this poorly restored Bel-air. My 1965 thunderbird has been in two wrecks, on in 1967 when my 1986. both similar wrecks like this one, but only the front fender and hood crushed a little. but the difference was.. I bought a new fender and it looked like new. in 86, the toyota hit was ordered as "totaled"
Definitely faked. All through out the video you can see where bolts have been removed from the bel air and the bench seat wasn't even bolted down. Looks like the dash and steering column were unbolted as well. The BelAir is built like a truck, body bolted to a frame. The new car is a unibody with thin sheet metal. Look at 1:03 where zip ties are flying out of the BelAir. Its obvious they removed a lot of bolts and nuts from this car and zip tied the parts together just enough to hold it.
Im not arguing the 59 is a safer car..... However it looks to me this was a very poor resoration of a very rusted 59 Chevy....Look at the footage from 1:00 through 1:10 and you can clearly see a large amount of rust spew forth from the passenger side rocker panel of the vehicle... Many are claiming both cars were crashed with no engines present.. I watched several times and i cant seem to verify that one way or the other... I would like to think they performed a valid test with engines intact.
@mebe2k I disagree with you if it was a 1957 Chevrolet Belair or a Chrysler Imperial it would have Blown the new car into a million pieces but the problem is with the 59 Chev is that General motors from 1958-1961 they used an X shaped frame that was very unsafe in offset and side impacts.
Are you guys serious? The Bel-Air did have an I6 engine that you can clearly see. It doesn't matter the sheet metal of the Bel-Air, there's no determined crumble zones that absorb impact before transferring energy into the cabin. And in 1959, the engine was a determined safety point, it was a block of metal attached by four or six motor mounts that easily shredded on impact. Look at the post-crash photos to see the engine. The Bel-Air was a shit budget car back in the day.
@SlodkiPolska The '59 was not modifed at all. It had it's engine in place Cars back then might have been heavy but they had no structure to them at all.
The belair had no engine and all that dust flying out of it was clearly all the rusty frame and body panels, the engine block is a key part on a cars frontal structure. This belair was just painted to look nice and nothing else.
when u get done talking about it. it is still man made so that means it will have problems with it anything thats old or new but i still like my new cars but the old ones rocks.
the 59 may have been less safe, but that would probably influence people to drive more carefully than they do now. people think their newer car is so super safe that they can drive like maniacs and everything will be ok.
How ignorant could you get. Sure, the Bel Air might be a larger and heavier car, but the safety in it is two generations behind the Malibu. Larger Vehicle does NOT equal Safer Vehicle
Who in their right mind would argue that a 1959 designed car would have better crash performance than a modern car - especially a Malibu, which is a rebodied European Insignia, so properly designed - Oh, of course its mainly Americans responding to this. Generally not the brightest of bears.
@rickerbycourt rebodied insignia? Umm, the only thing the malibu and insignia share is the frame. Everything else is made in north america by GM...besides who cares who designed it? Still a GM car. Opel's been run by GM for HOW long now?
@rickerbycourt Except, that the Opel Insignia is actually translated over here as the Buick Regal. Only the platform Epsilon II is shared between the two... and Opel is a subsidiary of GM :)
Yaaaa! IIHS celebrated 50 years of Chevy by taking 2 of them off the road permanently! And it goes to show, if you don't criticize car companies, they'd make no improvements. You have any idea how many people died on the roads back in the '50s because there was no seatbelts, cars that split in half due to no side impact reinforcement, ABS, drum brakes, the cars caught fire when the car was rear ended, etc?
I love vintage cars but I would not want to crash in one. I don't care if it's a 59 Chevy or a 59 Caddy they were all death traps back in the day. Some of the ignorant posts I've read are from people who don't wear seats belts because they still think the steering wheel will protect them in a crash.
you should all be ashamed of yourselfs first they call it a bel air witch it definely isn't and how the malibu would win. I would rather be in the impala in a wreck than that shit sack they call a car. What happed to the good old chevy.
in 1959-60 there was a design flaw in the frame they x-ed and very weak in just behind the front wheels so this type of crash doesn't surprise me any, try this test with a 1959 chevy pick up and go from there
This car DID have an engine...It was 235 CID (3.9 litre) inline 6. If you ever seen one in an old full size car like this you would know why the front end crumpled like it did. Couple that with GM's weak X-frame of this era and you will understand why the Bel Air did poorly against a car that weighs only 100 lbs.less.
As much as I support safer cars, one thing I have to nitpick is how ugly steering wheels have gotten. I loved the classic thin look as compared to the new bulky appearance to house the airbag.
@taitai907 Well, modern steering wheels rims are thicker because they are padded in order to minimize head/face injury in a shunt, even without an airbag. You can't have it all, alas...
Considering the degree to which the dash collapsed in the Bel Air, I'd have to say, having an engine in the bay would likely only make the situation worse. You *want* the engine bay to collapse and absorb the impact rather than having the passenger compartment shredded. Watch the A-Pillar bend backwards. Then look at the A-pillar on the Malibu. In either case, I'd rather be in a modern car than a 50s model... at least when it comes to safety. That seems obvious, though.
TOTALLY FAKE THE BELAIR WOULD OF DESTROYED THAT PIECE OF SHIT MALIBU IF IT WOULD OF BEEN ORIGINALLY STOCK. THERES NO ENGINE ON THE BELAIR NO CHASSIS. THOSE CARS ARE ROCK SOLID
@The348864 WHAT? I COULDN'T HEAR ALL YOUR SHOUTING. GET YOU HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS AND OPEN YOUR EYES, THE EVIDENCE IS RIGHT THERE ON THE SCREEN. HAPPY FESTIVE SEASON DINGLEBERRY.
That bel air was obviously prepped for the crusher. No engine/tranny. There is no way the entire engine compartment disappears without the engine coming through the dash which it didn't. Search chevy crash tests from the 60s. Doors open people fly around but the other car never goes all the way to the firewall.
look at the dashes in the vehicles, the dash in the bel air moved and wus wrecked, the dash in the malibu wus still good as new!! can anyone figure out why this is?? :S
@oldschoolgreentube Actually the IIHS is funded by insurance companies not the government. NHTSA is government funded. Either way though, agreed, waste of a classic.
@0554joe Nah nah. The engine is an uncompressible block of metal and would have been pushed into the Bel Air weak passenger compartment like a ram. The dummy would have been smashed to splinters. The Bel Air firewall, A-pillar and sills have not been engineered to withstand such forces. No computers, no CAD-CAM and no affordable hi-tensile steel in 1959. Besides, safety was not a selling point back then....
I hope the man which is responsible for this, may die slow and terrible!
DerMannmitderWaffe 6 hours ago
before you press play.... place your bets now...
91thomasg 11 hours ago
Damn! That Malibu knocked the dust off that pussy
newballin 18 hours ago
but people always say: i remember clasic vintage cars... they were made of steel not plastic like nowdays cars...
MarcoTUV 1 day ago
naguara como canbia la tecnologia dios.......!!!!
jesus29221 1 day ago
реаритет жалко =(
kolyani98 1 day ago
what a fucking waste.
cxcmb 1 day ago
I honestly thought Bel Air would perform better since it is longer than my whole car
Mindzinsuk 1 day ago
well no kidding
randumbvids11 1 day ago
mıçtığım bok gibi araba bu :D
SuperBerkay98 1 day ago
sıçtığım bok gibi araba bu :D
SuperBerkay98 1 day ago
1959 Bel Air is a bad ass car
axelljesus 1 day ago
try this again with a 70 cadillac, results will change i promise you
JEKitchens 1 day ago
This is about as obvious as pitching a German WWII Tiger Tank against an M1Abrams Tank.
As powerful as the Tiger was it would be totally out matched by the Abrams. The result being the loss of one classic WWII Tiger tank.
tomburley 2 days ago
how much better todays cars are ? they arent better, they are worse ..
jasonvoorhees1428 2 days ago
The Bel Air has Safety Glass. The windshield comes right out, safely.....
BlackDynamiteNYC 2 days ago
I dont reckon it would matter if the bel air had an engine in it or not, you still woulda ended up wearing it on your lap, looking at the way the dash folded. Besides if you're gonna own and drive a classic like that you would tend to be pretty careful with it these days.
wittsend86 2 days ago
all of you saying it has no engine... since when has the engine came anywhere the bonnet? if im right, im sure they had a lot of air gap space in corners? ALSO please tell me why the exhaust at 0:20 does not move untill seconds after the accident happened? if it was "tied down" it would of moved straight away from chassis flex. you would see it wobble it moves as the front wheels meet, which seems right.
because you can tell theres no engine from a small.. black gap centrimeters wide.. ¬¬
gt4driftster 3 days ago
1:02 sure looks like an empty engine compartment on the Bel Air to me. I call fake.
macandrewes 3 days ago
@macandrewes I think so to
jasonvoorhees1428 2 days ago
I've never understood why people thumb up replies to other peoples comments because you have to search for it sometimes even many pages.
Toilu 3 days ago
lmao look at all that fucking rust that bel air shot out at 1:03 atleast it sure does look like frame rust.. if thats the case i want a re match..
marcos915 3 days ago
Talk to my buddy about the difference between old and new. 4 years ago he was hit head-on at about 45mph in his 1968 Camaro by a 2004 VW Passat. Within a couple of minutes the lady driving the VW sitting on the curb calling her husband on her cell phone. My friend had to be cut out of his Camaro. He spent quite some time in the hospital with a broken left ankle and foot, a broken right wrist, 2 broken ribs, a broken jaw and 4 teeth missing, along with countless bumps, bruises and stitches.
firstmusic00 4 days ago
Bel Air was without engine on this video, how do i know? cause i was there.
reshit27 4 days ago 13
@reshit27 u are right... there is no engine .
magus2511 1 day ago
@reshit27 yeah... would be the Egnine in the car, you would be able to change the Spark Plugs after the Crash from the Drivers Seat loooool
Steven121281 1 day ago
Old cars had tougher body panels but a weaker chassis... The same is true for old trucks... It's the chassis that matters... Not the body panels...
shartasticful 4 days ago
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mrdestoryit 2 days ago
what a bunch of bullshit! these muderfuckers totaled a clean 59 chevy with cat eye tail lights for stupis test! FUCK THESE MUDERFUCKERS I WILL NEVER BUY A NEW PLASTIC CAR!!! CLASSIC IS THE BEST! THOSE WERE REAL CARS! WHAT HAPPENED TO AMERICA?
ogbarris 4 days ago
@ogbarris haha dumbass!
dreeeeei 2 days ago
Where is the engine? The engine probably wouldve destroyed the 09
acenace24 5 days ago
Idiots wrecking a nice '59 Bel Air.
There are so few of them in the world and now there is one less.
The least safe cars that NCAP ever tested were the Fiat Seicento, Citroen Xanta and Rover 100 and those were not designed for safety. Why wreck a beautiful classic to prove something which everyone knows?
Ferrari73703 5 days ago
The bel air doesnt have a engine is why. Plus there was a ton of rust that means it wasn't in any condition as it would be new.
KNGarver 5 days ago
Imagine the crater door ding the Bel Air can give or the 5 mph damage from a light hit in a parking lot? The Bel Air wouldn't have a scratch and the bumper would cause $2000 damage to the 2009 Malibu like a sledge hammer hit it. I'm glad they didn't use a good looking Chevy in this test, or a real classic two door version. These sedans are pretty ugly, and worthless. The color was already a wreck.
dalotel 6 days ago
thats a chevy impala stupid not bel air
cougswsu 6 days ago
@cougswsu WROOONG !
ThePetters1 4 days ago
WTF??? Why waste a piece of automotive history to prove the obvious???
4t5gunner 1 week ago 24
anyone else notice the mass amounts of rust (dust) pouring out the the lower chassis @ ~1:03...the 59 was by no means in "new" condition. Structural integrity compromised from the start.
Still...interesting test.
mpower3v 1 week ago 3
@mpower3v Yah WTF was up with that?
nateames76 1 week ago
the new car went threw the old one
mathewfful 1 week ago
so nice car have been crashed (((((
IDFPAI 1 week ago
thats not a chevy bel air its a chevorlet impala stupid
cougswsu 1 week ago
@cougswsu Impala and Bel Air were almost the same cars that year...
OldTownRanch 1 week ago
did you see all the rust fly off the 1959 aha
07blkCobalt 1 week ago
FUCK THIS MOTHER FUCKING SHITHOLE THAT RECORDED THIS! THEY THINK "Well, duh, I just wanna be a moron and wreck this beautiful car, Duh" WELL IT FUCKING DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY!
RQBtv 1 week ago
Nothing here was faked as far as the old car failing. Seats breaking loose during a collision is also documented on videos of crash tests done by GM on cars of this vintage. It is not the damage to the car done, this is about the safety of the occupants. The 59 may have done better in a full contact frontal collision, the 2009 is designed to withstand the offset collision seen here.
SuperOffgrid 1 week ago
They destroyed the classic car...
Muniek1310 1 week ago
there is no way in hell plastic beats metal
pwrby2zz 1 week ago
First of all, the unibody frame and other load-bearing structural materials of a Malibu are made of steel. Plastic chassis AFAIK don't exist (carbon fiber doesn't count). The bumpers of the 1959 Impala are made of (very thin) metal, but pre-1970s bumpers disintegrate in high-speed impacts without doing anything because there's nothing behind the surface. Being big and heavy means nothing--a 1959 Impala is far more likely to kill you in a crash than even a modern subcompact.
tankermottind 6 days ago
في حمار يدعم باكلاسك ) هذه الناس تحفضه ذكرى
3ZOZ1KSA1BOY 1 week ago
co tam piszesz? zmazańcu pierdolony
grzesiek0388 1 week ago
C'est truqué il n'y a pas de moteur dans la Classique
sonocite 1 week ago
What is wrong with you people? Sure the Malibu isn't the prettiest of cars, but that old Impala / Bel Air was an ugly old piece of shit death trap.
Why don't you guys all hop into one and perform a crash test like the one above?
An3ggPlant1 1 week ago
I think this car is replic.
MoizeProdigy 1 week ago
I think this car is replic...i hope so..
MoizeProdigy 1 week ago
crash all stupid fat ass american cars please. thanks
Shuffle3956 1 week ago
It is a belair i looked it up
pontiac441 1 week ago
i hadd a 77 chevy and crashed it into a 99 ford exp. i was gong 45 and hit right cornner of the suv and f**ed it up broke 3 windows and both of the balljoints the front of the suv was on the ground and my truck was rusted like no other and still i drove away i drove it 6 blocks away to my frinds .... so if you take out bolts and make sume cuts shure anny car will smash like that.........for the record i think that is an impla also....
pontiac441 1 week ago
fuck u i aint subscribing u trashed a 59 bel air
green3sex 1 week ago
Waste of a good classic. it doesn't even have an engine in it!
SR111ify 1 week ago
does the belair even have a drive train
regret197 1 week ago
For one, when the bel air collides with new car, you can see a cloud of rust. As cars get older, the materials into building the car deteriorate, therefore becoming less strong, such as this poorly restored Bel-air. My 1965 thunderbird has been in two wrecks, on in 1967 when my 1986. both similar wrecks like this one, but only the front fender and hood crushed a little. but the difference was.. I bought a new fender and it looked like new. in 86, the toyota hit was ordered as "totaled"
DeanGuitarsOwn 1 week ago
@DeanGuitarsOwn 65 T Bird- is it body on frame or unit body?
SuperOffgrid 1 week ago
@SuperOffgrid it is a unit body constructon.in 1967 the t-bird was a body on frame construction until 1980.
rogerbahakel 6 days ago
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CatalinaSafari73 1 week ago
wow one less cherry bel air
A2Bproductions1 1 week ago
Definitely faked. All through out the video you can see where bolts have been removed from the bel air and the bench seat wasn't even bolted down. Looks like the dash and steering column were unbolted as well. The BelAir is built like a truck, body bolted to a frame. The new car is a unibody with thin sheet metal. Look at 1:03 where zip ties are flying out of the BelAir. Its obvious they removed a lot of bolts and nuts from this car and zip tied the parts together just enough to hold it.
doabaudio 1 week ago
JUST wanna add i dont think cars at that time runed so fast from 0 to 40
gallardo10000 1 week ago
WTF? WHY!?
Craftsteen117 1 week ago
agreed no engine.
krackshot322 1 week ago
Damn, that Bel Air just wrinkled up like tin foil.
Nickhead87 1 week ago
Im not arguing the 59 is a safer car..... However it looks to me this was a very poor resoration of a very rusted 59 Chevy....Look at the footage from 1:00 through 1:10 and you can clearly see a large amount of rust spew forth from the passenger side rocker panel of the vehicle... Many are claiming both cars were crashed with no engines present.. I watched several times and i cant seem to verify that one way or the other... I would like to think they performed a valid test with engines intact.
rainmechanic 2 weeks ago
@rainmechanic I think they would explode.
twistedyogert 2 weeks ago
@rainmechanic The car was 50 years old when they conducted this test. What did you expect?
ImportLegends16 1 week ago
Bloody hell!!! They killed the most beautiful car ever!!! I hate them!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HEKOT77 2 weeks ago
fake.. that old steel would've flattened that new piece of junk.
mebe2k 2 weeks ago
@mebe2k unfortunately you are wrong :(
bugras88 1 week ago
@mebe2k I disagree with you if it was a 1957 Chevrolet Belair or a Chrysler Imperial it would have Blown the new car into a million pieces but the problem is with the 59 Chev is that General motors from 1958-1961 they used an X shaped frame that was very unsafe in offset and side impacts.
mrdestoryit 1 week ago
Back in my day! HOLY FUCK!! FUCK THIS SHIT, IM GETTING A NORMAL CAR!
fitimio001 2 weeks ago
This looks like a rebuilt Bel Air.. which would mean more plastics. If it WERE a 59.. they'd be using more metals and steel.
EnglishCoffee 2 weeks ago
Are you guys serious? The Bel-Air did have an I6 engine that you can clearly see. It doesn't matter the sheet metal of the Bel-Air, there's no determined crumble zones that absorb impact before transferring energy into the cabin. And in 1959, the engine was a determined safety point, it was a block of metal attached by four or six motor mounts that easily shredded on impact. Look at the post-crash photos to see the engine. The Bel-Air was a shit budget car back in the day.
burton160w 2 weeks ago
THATS AN IMPALA!!!!!!!!!
bliesberg 2 weeks ago
@bliesberg And nobody notices it, they're just tellin' how shit and how ugly it is.
It's an Impala indeed.
Tibb91 2 weeks ago
i looked it up it is a belair
pontiac441 1 week ago
to be fair, back then 0-60 was about 17 sec
Litoaznboi415 2 weeks ago
esses caras são uns filho da mãe por ter a inteligencia de destruir esses carros
othon52 2 weeks ago
What the fuck is wrong with you people?
Everyone complains that the fuckin destroyed the `59 bel air
The belair : 1. It`s ugly , 2. It`s not safe , 3. IT`s UGLY !!!!!
dragoscorca 2 weeks ago
@dragoscorca Bel Air is beautiful, and this video is fake, cause the car was without engine.
SlodkiPolska 2 weeks ago 28
@SlodkiPolska No offenses, but what makes you write there was no engine in it?
PolluteLessDotCom 1 week ago
@SlodkiPolska The '59 was not modifed at all. It had it's engine in place Cars back then might have been heavy but they had no structure to them at all.
jelloslug 1 week ago
@SlodkiPolska non this is real, lock how the dash move !
marcorodamien 1 week ago
@SlodkiPolska how do you know that the engine was removed? i can't see it ?
christophelienard 5 days ago
@christophelienard So that's how you know it's not there. You can't see it. Watch starting at 1:02
macandrewes 3 days ago
The belair had no engine and all that dust flying out of it was clearly all the rusty frame and body panels, the engine block is a key part on a cars frontal structure. This belair was just painted to look nice and nothing else.
cubano1389 2 weeks ago
this crash test is fake , the chevrolet bel air is much stronger than the malibu..........they do this to make the people buy the modern cars
powerfullengine50 2 weeks ago 2
Bastards wrecking the classic
64oldsf85man 2 weeks ago 65
Way to go douche bags!
barfyspitz 2 weeks ago
How stupid is this? Ruining a beautiful classic car just to flog their stupid Institute for Highway Safety. Jerks. Who cares about the Malibu anyway.
ExiledStardust 2 weeks ago
Americans drive at like 5mph so why even bother.
MegaMrDamo 2 weeks ago
this is a replica from YUGO and ZASTAVA chassis@!!@
divljacina1 2 weeks ago
lol
cordelllee1 2 weeks ago
when u get done talking about it. it is still man made so that means it will have problems with it anything thats old or new but i still like my new cars but the old ones rocks.
cordelllee1 2 weeks ago
classic cars look so much better than modern cars
Vwsambavan 2 weeks ago
@Vwsambavan ....but not after the crash....
fuzter2007 2 weeks ago
OH GOD WHYY????
renanrr95 2 weeks ago
i liked this crash, really..
Emrett0 2 weeks ago
the 59 may have been less safe, but that would probably influence people to drive more carefully than they do now. people think their newer car is so super safe that they can drive like maniacs and everything will be ok.
lostinthe50s81 2 weeks ago
How ignorant could you get. Sure, the Bel Air might be a larger and heavier car, but the safety in it is two generations behind the Malibu. Larger Vehicle does NOT equal Safer Vehicle
turtleshot987 2 weeks ago
Anyone else notice the fuzzy dice in the 59 Bel Air?
Bostonbrecash15 2 weeks ago
Who in their right mind would argue that a 1959 designed car would have better crash performance than a modern car - especially a Malibu, which is a rebodied European Insignia, so properly designed - Oh, of course its mainly Americans responding to this. Generally not the brightest of bears.
rickerbycourt 2 weeks ago
@rickerbycourt rebodied insignia? Umm, the only thing the malibu and insignia share is the frame. Everything else is made in north america by GM...besides who cares who designed it? Still a GM car. Opel's been run by GM for HOW long now?
roberth214 2 weeks ago
@rickerbycourt Except, that the Opel Insignia is actually translated over here as the Buick Regal. Only the platform Epsilon II is shared between the two... and Opel is a subsidiary of GM :)
burton160w 2 weeks ago
Yaaaa! IIHS celebrated 50 years of Chevy by taking 2 of them off the road permanently! And it goes to show, if you don't criticize car companies, they'd make no improvements. You have any idea how many people died on the roads back in the '50s because there was no seatbelts, cars that split in half due to no side impact reinforcement, ABS, drum brakes, the cars caught fire when the car was rear ended, etc?
betatalk357 2 weeks ago
Tiene el motor colocado el 59" como puede ser q el 09 q es una latita no se rompa tanto?
Daniel09x 2 weeks ago
1.18. es wilson, de naufrago
santoschoripanes 2 weeks ago
Both cars with no engine? this stupid 'crash test' won't reflects a real situation then.
RickStylus 2 weeks ago
Anybody noticed it's NOT a bel Air, but an Impala??
Tibb91 2 weeks ago
plastic car won !
guitarmafia20 2 weeks ago
There's no motor? No shit, figures. Whatever, if this was to happen in real life, the driver of the 09 malibu is dying, one way or another
TheMadDooby 2 weeks ago
If it had an engin the integrity would have Ben bye it wouldn't have buckled like that
MrMobsta55 2 weeks ago
This is a bullshit test. Where is the engine in the Bel Air. If they can cheat like that I wouldn't be surprised if they cut the front frame too!!!
how0will0this0end 2 weeks ago
...I thought the 59' would rip the 09' apart...
downloadgoblin 3 weeks ago
@downloadgoblin It would have, if there wasnt any rust. 0:18 - 0:23
Bobbeization 2 weeks ago
GODDAMID... THAT A CLASIC CAR BITCH...
why u destroy them BITCH America
Exilelangely 3 weeks ago
the bell air has no engine
tortasmexico9 3 weeks ago
@tortasmexico9 Obviously you've never seen a car from the 50's.
IdentifiableUser 2 weeks ago
I love vintage cars but I would not want to crash in one. I don't care if it's a 59 Chevy or a 59 Caddy they were all death traps back in the day. Some of the ignorant posts I've read are from people who don't wear seats belts because they still think the steering wheel will protect them in a crash.
Jamiemcneal 3 weeks ago
you take the engine out? Whats the point of the rest?
PauloECosta 3 weeks ago
How about an engine in tha 59 bel air and no rust then lets see intel then im not buyin this shit
DJ4000VOLT 3 weeks ago
you should all be ashamed of yourselfs first they call it a bel air witch it definely isn't and how the malibu would win. I would rather be in the impala in a wreck than that shit sack they call a car. What happed to the good old chevy.
CallMeLightning68 3 weeks ago
Replace institute of highway safety with Asshole of America.
archer49d 3 weeks ago
what a waste of old steel
nekkidwelder 3 weeks ago
in 1959-60 there was a design flaw in the frame they x-ed and very weak in just behind the front wheels so this type of crash doesn't surprise me any, try this test with a 1959 chevy pick up and go from there
travelinjavelin 3 weeks ago
The Bel Air is rusty, you can see the rusty flying out of it at 1:03
88mphDelorean 3 weeks ago
@88mphDelorean 100% right opinion.
energystar8711 3 weeks ago
i sugest a a 67 cadillac fleetwood vs a new malibu i bet the 67 prveails
mikecameli 3 weeks ago
@chevy1974c10 thank u these people should be in jail
turneynicholas 3 weeks ago
Propagada...this is b/s...
pipeguy1958 3 weeks ago
lol that bel air ate a bag....... still better than the malibu though :D
AnonymoussourceL0L 3 weeks ago
Motherfuckers take the engine out of the old car to make it look bad.
BluestreakPictures 3 weeks ago
Somehow i think this is not a 1959 chevy body,but a cheap rebuild one.
MapleDog 3 weeks ago
I'm seeing it and i'm thinking "lets dance":
watzupdawg 4 weeks ago
I was that guy in Bel Air and i survived!!!!so, for me clear 5 stars :-D
minarick1 1 month ago
This car DID have an engine...It was 235 CID (3.9 litre) inline 6. If you ever seen one in an old full size car like this you would know why the front end crumpled like it did. Couple that with GM's weak X-frame of this era and you will understand why the Bel Air did poorly against a car that weighs only 100 lbs.less.
CatalinaSafari73 1 month ago
beautifull, old chevy [*]
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RTE4EVER 1 month ago
you trash a 59 bel air OH GOD WHY!!!!!!!!!!
tnhl77 1 month ago 51
@tnhl77 thats not even a bel air its a impala
CallMeLightning68 3 weeks ago
@tnhl77 cuz they are ugly as fuck and they stink up the road. one useless car less on earth!!
Shuffle3956 1 week ago
I think you all are missing the point of this which is how can I get this job!?
TheDJMeyer85 1 month ago
Why the fuck would they destroy this 59 for a CRASH TEST?
Who even gives a fuck about safety anyways??
I would rather die in a 59 than drive a 09 malibu
Menolifee 1 month ago 41
the iron of bel air is very rusty, you see the brown powder
Carburning 1 month ago
@Carburning
It's a weak shit car, rusty or not.
swordfish1986 4 weeks ago
As much as I support safer cars, one thing I have to nitpick is how ugly steering wheels have gotten. I loved the classic thin look as compared to the new bulky appearance to house the airbag.
taitai907 1 month ago
@taitai907 Well, modern steering wheels rims are thicker because they are padded in order to minimize head/face injury in a shunt, even without an airbag. You can't have it all, alas...
Gavichap 4 weeks ago
Considering the degree to which the dash collapsed in the Bel Air, I'd have to say, having an engine in the bay would likely only make the situation worse. You *want* the engine bay to collapse and absorb the impact rather than having the passenger compartment shredded. Watch the A-Pillar bend backwards. Then look at the A-pillar on the Malibu. In either case, I'd rather be in a modern car than a 50s model... at least when it comes to safety. That seems obvious, though.
lekoman 1 month ago
Blathering idiot old car fans, go look at guy48065 video showing the engine photos after the crash.
myphonyaccount 1 month ago
the trouble with the safer new cars is it prevents darwinism
carabela125 1 month ago
The engineers obviously fail at autobot/deceptacon Transforming technology
004308 1 month ago
If you want a safe car, get The Marauder. if you want a nice car get the Chevy.
loveanianimeme 1 month ago
yeah...i'm pretty sure that Bel Air would demolish that Malibu
CarConvos 1 month ago
I don't think EITHER of them have engines though.
johnhelinski 1 month ago
TOTALLY FAKE THE BELAIR WOULD OF DESTROYED THAT PIECE OF SHIT MALIBU IF IT WOULD OF BEEN ORIGINALLY STOCK. THERES NO ENGINE ON THE BELAIR NO CHASSIS. THOSE CARS ARE ROCK SOLID
The348864 1 month ago
@The348864 WHAT? I COULDN'T HEAR ALL YOUR SHOUTING. GET YOU HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS AND OPEN YOUR EYES, THE EVIDENCE IS RIGHT THERE ON THE SCREEN. HAPPY FESTIVE SEASON DINGLEBERRY.
paulsonjeff 1 month ago
@The348864 IGNORANCE
ATLZero 1 month ago
@The348864 i have to show you pictures if possible of an european/japanese design against an american muscle car
Give me your e mail and i send you those
215alessio 1 month ago
@The348864 the bib bib big american car is just a bluff . And bluffs are no match when they get hit head a head
The test is representative.
215alessio 1 month ago
what a retards those nubs who make this gay test... i bet this bet don't have the shasis LoL
OrochiGab 1 month ago
@OrochiGab
Metal quality was pretty shitty 50 years ago. Today's stuff is very potent, even in bad cars such as the 09 Malibu.
filmftw3 1 month ago
That bel air was obviously prepped for the crusher. No engine/tranny. There is no way the entire engine compartment disappears without the engine coming through the dash which it didn't. Search chevy crash tests from the 60s. Doors open people fly around but the other car never goes all the way to the firewall.
dgdaner 1 month ago
look at the dashes in the vehicles, the dash in the bel air moved and wus wrecked, the dash in the malibu wus still good as new!! can anyone figure out why this is?? :S
weiserbud67 1 month ago
@oldschoolgreentube Actually the IIHS is funded by insurance companies not the government. NHTSA is government funded. Either way though, agreed, waste of a classic.
dgdw 1 month ago
if that bel air had AN ENGINE in it, it would've tore thru that malibu like tin foil
0554joe 1 month ago
@0554joe Nah nah. The engine is an uncompressible block of metal and would have been pushed into the Bel Air weak passenger compartment like a ram. The dummy would have been smashed to splinters. The Bel Air firewall, A-pillar and sills have not been engineered to withstand such forces. No computers, no CAD-CAM and no affordable hi-tensile steel in 1959. Besides, safety was not a selling point back then....
Gavichap 1 month ago
@Gavichap Drinking and driving and no insurance was not a big thing in 1959 which was great for population controlle thats why todays world is fucked
aaronpourazar 1 month ago
@aaronpourazar Huh? Everybody drove drunk in the old days.
Jsd8675 1 month ago
@0554joe
Bullshit.
swordfish1986 4 weeks ago
old man taking his old car out for a drive encounters with a malibu.....
DVDFerrari5 1 month ago
70 year old man taking his old car out for a drive encounters with a teenager in a malibu.....
DVDFerrari5 1 month ago
They even had to hang the dice from the mirror...ouch.
dogfish1602 1 month ago
I would rather die in a 59' than be caught alive in an 09'.. how dare you fuck up a 59' for this.
rottro 1 month ago
dont care. id still rather have the 59 bel air
sobertson1 1 month ago