Agreed..

I am not an engineer...but it does not take much common sense to realize the saftey difference between a 1967 Firebird and a say 2010 Camaro.

I have been in law enforcement since 1988 and have seen my share of accidents. I have seen single 30 year old car 30-40 mph crashes where the car looks repairable, yet the driver died, and a 2008+ car that took a head on at 60 and the car was unrecognizable, yet the driver walked away.

The older cars were tanks, true. Sheet metal was 30% thicker and the cars had little to no plastic in them.

Just like my 1951 Fridgidaire fridge I got for free from a cool guy on Craigslist. Original compressor...never been recharged. [censored] thing froze my keg lines on the lowest setting. Our parents built [censored], and built it to last...unlike today.