They don't make them like they used to (thankfully!)

To show how far vehicle safety has come in the last 50 years, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety decided to take 2 cars, 50 years apart in when they were manufactured, and crash them into each other.  Here are the cars:

1959 Chevy Bel Air:

2009 Chevy Malibu:

Here is the moment of impact:

The aftermath:

What can we take away from this?  Well, if you were in the 1959 model, you would quickly learn what your knees taste like if in an accident.  Thank goodness for science and advances in highway safety.

Alright, alright, you have earned it.  Here is the video:

(source: Autoblog.com)

• Кайли Миноуг (Kylie Minogue)
• Anna Kournikova