1971 VW Beetle vs 1972 Chevy Malibu Classic | Car-To-Car Crash Test by NHTSA | CrashNet1
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Chevrolet Malibu at 17mph
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In 1975 I was a passenger in a brand new VW super beetle wearing seatbelts, when stopped to turn left we were creamed "rear ended" by an older Buick land yacht cruising around 30 mph. Our engine ended up in rear seat area, front seat backs were broken and the rails ripped off the floor. We were launched around forty feet and ended up in someone's garden.
We got out and walked away without a scratch, needing clean underwear, but all was good! Head rests, belt and shoulder restraints ..... nice. Thank you Volkswagen!
You were very smart to have buckled up back then. Hardly anyone wore seat belts in those days.
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Superbeetles were much different from standard beetles.
@@davidcooper6618 But not on the rear end.
@@davidcooper6618oh yeah? How so?
Damn, these old films are so cool. This could play on a loop in any art gallery in NY or Boston and people would love it.
It should play at The JFK Library in Boston also with an installation for National Lampoon's "If Ted Kennedy Had Driven A Volkswagen He Would Be President".
The result was, someone bought the VW and pieced it back together and still drives it to classic car shows. The Malibu classic was used to make an LS 454 clone and sold to an unsuspecting buyer.
Photo's, or it didn't happen
@@user-sf7kl9uh7k Sarcasm.
Yes but the owners were both dead or paralized from taking the full force of the incident, the family sold the cars on not wishing to have the constant reminder of how the vehicles did not absorb the impact for them.
This comment is like a "Famous actors, where are they now?" video
1971 vw beetles came with seatbelts yet the crash test dummy wasn't wearing it
What a dummy..
Perhaps it was intended to show what happens without it which is that you're tossed around interior.
Dummy's should wear seat belts too.
They don't want seatbelts! Besides, Bug drivers couldn't care less about the Establishment wanted them to do! La-di-dah, la-di-dah. Law-di-dah, la,la
@@paulaharrisbaca4851 what?
They start crashing a 3:30 for people wanting to skip.
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Herbie actually held up a lot better than I expected him too, especially for a big car like a Malibu hitting it. That driver would've been seriously injured if not killed though.
note the crash test dummies lack of seat belt. also, roll cage would've made side impact a bit safer.
@@wev7196 half cage?
But shockingly the Malibu was only going 17 mph. It's still immense forces involved that we would take for granted because our cars today would probably deflect that exact impact like nothing. Today's cars they test like this but instead of 17 mph it's 35 mph.
Not bad for a car from the 30s.. well done Hit.. uh I mean VW
..lol , love it
LOL
1930s wdym
@@rebelrouzer3799 The first Beetle rolled out in the 30s in Germany and the came to the US in the 50s
Do you hate VW??
5:15 I was T-boned exactly this way in my 1971 Beetle by a '73 Cougar. I was just moving the car around the corner to another parking space so I didn't bother to put on my seat belt. Good thing, because I would've been killed instantly. The Cougar came around a bend going way too fast in a snow storm and couldn't stop in time. The glass shattered in a thousand bits and ended up in my hair. The door was crushed in and folded in half and the seat I was sitting in was squashed into half its width. The inertia of the collision threw the Beetle up onto a snow drift several feet above the road.
That sounds scary as HECK!
Is a beetle well built?
@@aarongranda7825 That era? The doors were about 2 inches (5 cm) thick altogether with no safety beam, and any big car hitting your door makes it crumple like a coke can.
This Beetle has a '72 or later trunk lid with 4 groups of ventilation slots. '71s had 2 groups. I had a '71 Super Beetle.
Cars had shoulder and lap belts then, which were not used in this test. I wonder why? I survived a freeway rollover crash in my Beetle in 1978 because I was one of the very fews people who voluntarily wore my seatbelt back then.
Ive got a 72 and Its the same , They only made the 1302"s for Two years before they went too the 1303"s with the Curved windscreen
I was one of the other few people that buckled up back then. I got my grandfather's 1970 Buick Electra in 1978 when I turned 16. After about a week of seeing the" Fasten Seat Belts" printed above the steering column, I buckled up both the lap and shoulder belts and was amazed at how much better the car drove and handled with the belts buckled, not to mention the added safety aspect of wearing seat belts. Fast forward to 1982 when a drunk driver in a Chevrolet Suburban hit me head on. Because of the size of the Electra and materials it was made of along with the use of the seat belts, I walked away with only bruises from the belts. All of my friends thought I was nuts for wearing seat belts and usually if they were in the car with me I was the only one belted in. Rarely would someone wear the lap belt in the front passenger seat and I think only once did someone use the shoulder belt
@@bradparris99 And after my '71 Beetle was totaled in the freeway rollover in 1978, did any of my friends wear their seatbelts? Nope.
@@hebneh Does not surprise me at all. After my accident, I think only one of my friends started wearing a seat belt. Back then everyone had some stupid reason for not buckling up. It takes too much time, I'm in a hurry, I'm not going far, I'm a good driver, etc.
I guess the excuses all of my friends used for not wearing their seat belts back then aren't much different than the ones I use today about still smoking. I started back when I started driving/wearing seat belts and both habits continue to this present day. Back then it was Marlboro 100s and now it is between them and Winston 100s. Guess some fools never learn.
I saw it all. That clown in the Chevy ran a stop sign.
My Brother how are you
Just do what the Dummie does in the bettle, he said Oy! I'm getting hit in me left side! best switch seats cause this is gonna bloody hurt!
jizzanthapuss maammarata
Dont forget he also did it in slow motion ;)
back when the Malibu was something special
Back then it was just an average midsize car in a sea of dozens of others at the time.
@@palmz4u gimme the beetle anyday..before the smash lol
Back when the beetle was something special
This video is from 1978 or later, see the big Bronco, debuted in 1978.
My 72 Chevelle Malibu took a hit to the rear quarter panel. the other car had major front end damage while I was still able to drive my car back home.
also when I was young my dad had a 70's VW beetle. I forget why my father sold it some years later.
That B-pillar folded like a Popsicle stick
In the real accident, the Volkswagen guy died 3 days latter in the hospital, the guy in the Malibu burned one of his fingers on his cigarette and was a hour late for work !
Dummy wasn't wearing seatbelts 1971 beetles came with seatbelts
and then that weekend, him and the B'ys straightened the frame and found an SS front clip.
BeetleBoy72 How many people actually wore a seatbelt in 1971?
@@pleasantlakepirate1832 I'll bet the frame wasn't bent
WHY YOU...
I think this test was done in 1978. The cars would have been typical cars on the road then, not the classics they are today.
June 22, 2016 8:05 pm
whattheheck1000 you have an knack on how to state the obvious the classic cars to day were cutting edge in the 70 ..... do you regret that insane stupid statement you made ????
Those old small cars had something special to them. Beetle, Trabant, 2CV.. no safety at all but being small, simple and cute was their charm
This test seems designed to destroy the Beetle, except that the Beetle didn't get as destroyed as you might expect.
+dhy5342 Well, the heavy Chevy at only 17 mph is not quite what you'd call lethal....You double that mph to match the VW's and you will have not only destroyed the bug, but you would also kill the occupant as well.
+matty8371 Beetle occupant likely "destroyed" irregardless in the 17mph impact.
Low speed. But that driver's probably dead.
Hit the Volkswagen in the driver door with the heavier car...great test
It is, because most cars ARE heavier.
And nowadays, it will be hit by an SUV or pickup truck that sits up even higher.
Both SUVs and trucks are commonplace on the roads now.
Reminds me of the gas shortages back in the day. Mom sold the big Merc and bought a VW fastback. 2 bucks filled the tank.
VW fastback..lovely shape
VW Beetle was very safe in crash compared to ohter same era cars. It had crush zone in the front and bubble like shape is strong.
Where did the headrests go in the Malibu? I had one and they were standard equipment.
Not fair ... a small car with side impact and a big car with front impact
I like the way they added film holes and surround to make it look vintage.
You could get some very early airbags as an option on some Cadillacs, though.
But yeah, normal passengers cars didn't have them.
My wife was driving a type 3 station wagon style VW. She was t- boned at 60 miles per hour. When the paramedics got there she was in the passenger seat. The entire drivers side of the car was in the gear shift area
My friend in a '69 Beetle hit a VW Polo in the passenger side door when it pulled across his path. The passenger door arm rest finished up vertically in line with the handbrake. We fixed the Beetle next weekend and he drove it to work on Monday...
My Uncle had a 1974 Pontiac Parisienne which got rear ended by a 1972 Toyota Corolla. He got out of the car looked at his big bumper and didn't find any damage and looked at the Toyota which had the radiator leaking coolant which the fan had gone through. He drove away and the other guy had to get his Toyota towed. He still laughs about that till today.
I'm so sick of people texting on their phones. I got rear-ended by a dump truck. The driver was texting most likely.
Interesting that they had to take the back seat out to fit in all the old school recording instruments.
72 was the nicest year Malibu!! I think!!
I can just imagine the scientists after seeing these videos... "Yup, totally fucking dead. Ship it!"
Yeah
the guy in the Beetle is not moving, but however, he was never alive so he wasn't killed in the crash. You see, he is a mannekin.
You do not say, you fucking awesome genius!
Man that's some epic damage
The crash test dummies always look so calm.
The dummy may have been ok had at the very least his lab belt been on. The bugs did have lap belts back then.
um...mayne no belt becaUse-
hes a dummy- duh?
MiMi hi. Is that your real photo?
My 69 has lap and chest belt factory
Yeah all vehicles had a minimum of lap belts from the factory starting in 1971 due to a Federal law
1966 bug had the option to have a lap belt
It's too bad they did worst case scenario, as cars fronts (particularly then) were reinforced, their sides though had 0 protection. So we have the heavier car using one of its strongest points (front) hitting a much lighter car at its weakest point the damage is compounded. Be like, the strongest girl punching a weak girl in her weak spot. Hmm... what would make more sense is having the normal girl punching the strongest girl in her weak spot to see what happens. Would the strong girl be able to take such a weak hit, or would the fact she was hit in her weak spot be what matters. I wish the VW front slammed into the middle of the Chevy.
I think it wouldn't really matter. The beetle was a cool affordable car, but for the American market, it wan't safe in a crash at any angle. The cars built in Europe were better built cars, they didn't use cheep steel or bad welds. The Malibu was a big car, compared to today's cars those older cars don't really do well. They are nice sexy looking cars, but they wen't built to be in an accident. The bug would have done badly in any case. If you think any other way, than why on the list of the worst cars to have ever been tested the top ten had two Volkswagen? I'm not bashing VW, I just don't think you are right in saying that they are safe cars
Jeff Fox Yes - but it was a car a young guy starting out could afford. I bought my first when I was a corporal in the Army, and my payments were $60 a month! Lol That's a bar tab nowadays!
A girl analogy
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someone has serious ISSUES
So what? Worst case scenarios happen and we should know what do they lead to.
In the case of the old style VW Beetle the bad scenario is being in it at all. No engine in the front not much steel at all your dead in the front in the side everywhere. You don't stand a chance driving an older VW Beetle
VW was the enemy of the Big Three Cartel. That poor Malibu would be worth a lot more than a 71 bug in 2021.
I wonder if the Bug got made into a dune buggy after that
I really don't care as much about safety. I'm more into going out in style
Wont be looking so stylish smashed against the dash
Killcard101 pretty stylish way to go out for me
Won’t be looking pretty tho
@@alexthelion1342 I'll take my classics over any new car
Me too . I love old fashioned cars
The beetly has a boxy internal cab, with the shape similar to the kubelwagen, so, at least from front or back, is like hitting 2 cars in a row. From up holds up pretty well, because despite does not have the A, the arc and the fake backseat doors help to retain the shape.
the reason the VW did as well as it did was because of its light weight. It basically got pushed out of the way instead of absorbing ALL the impact.
the main reason I started wearing seatbelts circa 1970 was because I drove like a maniac. If you weren't buckled in, you just slid across the seat... and it's VERY hard to drive from the other side! Fast forward 5 plus decades... I have yet to have an at-fault accident.
how could they do this to such beautiful cars
+AB SD not that beautiful. besides this was decades ago.
others (like I) will disagree on beauty in automobile's but so will you.
+AB SD
agreed
+armymatt83
not agreed
To save lives. Cars are so much safer now because of research like this. Cars are disposable and can be replaced. People can not.
Man! Would i love to have them two classic right now!
Got a 72 El Camino
Really fun cars & Chevelles look mean.
"have those two classics right now.."
Neither one of those cars would have done well in the IIHS 40 m.p.h. crash test. They didn't build the cars to withstand such a crash since the technology wasn't available at the time. The driver dummy in the Beetle probably would have not been thrown around if a seat belt was used. In real life, the crash would have been survivable if a real person was using a seat belt. Cars today, are built much better and they provide much better protection over their older counterparts.
that technology WAS available, but it was so expensive and it wasn't reguired so it wasn't there at the time...
Yeah, You could have easily lived throught that with a seatbelt, They did have seatbelts in those cars, but a lot of people did not wear them, Today you can those put door bars in your doors.
Yeah, The Old Bugs where not that safe, but when you wore your seatbelt they were a lot move safer, I love these old bugs.
If you have side pillar accident to lamp post, it doesn't matter do you wear a seatbelt or not when the post hits your head and rips its way to passenger seat.
That was just a throw meaning if it really hits side post, seatbelt doesn't matter when impact is sideways, seatbelt works best at forward impact.
It's like watching the Zapruder film
Think what those brand new cars would be worth now if they had been put into a warehouse and not destroyed. Old Malibus ad Bugs are both sought after classics.
Not that much. Malibus past the 60s aren’t full much at all and VWs past 67 aren’t worth too much either.
@@akishot6735 not much of a car person are you. Malibu's and Beetles are still sought after by collectors.
I did not know they did that back in the day
I will pretend the VW bug never even existed 😂.
That hurts a lot...
Oh, that stick shift up the arse had to hurt...
That is a Malibu not a Malibu classic and the Malibu got more like 14-16mpg not 8. Just saying.
Contrary to what the radical environmentalists claim, I don't think any non-limousine got only 8 MPG. A 39 Cadillac V16 limo maybe, but no Chevelle could use that much gas.
My 70 Malibu had across the shoulder belt above drivers and passenger window if you wanted to use them.
I want both cars right now.
if this car is plunged into a wall with a 40% offset at 64 kph will it remain fairly intact?
This is why you put on your seatbelt!
Im a MOPAR guy and all i can say is poor Chevelle :(
..poor beetle 😔
Was this at Calspan in Buffalo NY??
There's a a guy here on CZcams who could tell you. He can tell by the angle of the Sun, etc but would need to know the date of the actual filming... I'm not sure if his name, or his handle here on the channel though sorry.
To think a year later in '73 everyone would be slinging their 8mpg malibus for the 25mpg bug anyway thanks to the oil crisis. Maybe Hitler knew the bug was so unsafe he never gave the folks their cars.
Hitler ordered Dr. Porsche to develop the car (who did not have much choice), but the basic design was already in place before that, having been worked on previously by Porsche with several details borrowed from Tatra. Then the war hit before the factory officially started production, so the first production Beetles were made with the factory under control of British and Americans, then the plant was turned over to the Germans after the dust settled from WW2. Compared to other cars from the 30's, it was actually pretty good in terms of safety for it's size and weight. But, the design did not change much over the years, and a small car designed in the late 30's is a bit of a mismatch for the more modern 3450 pounds of Detroit iron.
My Dad had a 72 Impala 350 company car that got 18 mpg .Those old cars Chev,Pontiac,Buick ,Chrysler,Dodge,Plymouth ,Ford etc...usually got 15-23 mpg..10-16 mpg city,15-23 hwy....I had a 68 Dodge Monaco that got 17 mpg average with a high performance 440 magnum,also a 383 Chrysler that was 22 mpg..A old timer gets 21 mpg with his 69 Chrysler 300 here at the club we are in..I get 25 mpg with my 1971 Dodge Challenger 383 Magnum when driving normally,15-18 when stomp on it a lot..Like the Bug hammer it less mpg...My 68 Charger RT 440 gets 18 mpg and 15 usually now because I moved to a hillier higher elevation area now..my Challenger hasn't been driven since the move as its being restored now..
Charles Macgilchrist My 2011 Honda Accord V6 gets 26 mpg and has 271 horsepower. The progress we’ve made is amazing. Also I’m pretty sure that if they replaced that Bug with my Accord and had me in the driver seat, I’d be completely uninjured. The side airbags would inflate. Progress.
October 19, 2018 8:43 pm
@@whattheheck1000 true, but i am sure that imapala would be driving from the accident.... Not sure about you
This was made in the late 70s because that style bronco came out in '78
The Malibu was only going 17 mph. I'd choose a modern car any day!
I wouldn't
Because you are smart. Modern cars have hundreds of engineering innovations designed to keep you safe.
The Beetle has a roll-up window to save you. We saw how that worked out.
End result: the driver in the VW is now the passenger.
Not wearing a seatbelt belt for yer ..
I once saw a VW that was hit in the front by a large car and the 'dubya was literally missing from the windshield forward.
If you look in the background,the vehicles look like any vintage years
Owned many bugs in the 70's simple little cars super easy to work on. Still making these old style bugs exactly the same in Mexico but just not for import to the USA . Cheap too I buy one.
Every bone in the VW Beetle driver's body would have been broken from this crash. I hope he had good health insurance.
Thats why we need Obama-care!
i have a beetle its black
that sucks.
Devynne Neville rip
I have a '90 Civic , no airbags, cages etc. But the steel making the skeleton of the car is thicker than the sheet metal that makes up the body.
I have a 66 beetle
Herbie’s evil twin..
The Malibu was only going 17 mph if it was 55 mph they would both be instantly dead
If you saw the VW vs American Car head on wreckage back in the day, the front end would be up to the passenger compartment.
There was a guy killed locally in a beetle in the 70’s and was hit broadside like this one but from a full size sedan. All that was left of the beetle was the rear fenders and the engine. The passenger compartment and front end were totally gone and the full size car still ran.
@@flatbrokeauto5746 The Beetle was probably rusty and the body detached from the chassis. Heater channel rust is common in Beetles.
Why didn't the air bags deploy? Was Herbie able to put himself back together?
Beautiful Malibu
el vocho es un escarabajo muy duro de vencer
The little beetle had no chance in confronting a classic Malibu.
Should've been a gm big body like the one that rear-ended the pinto in Indiana......or a corvair at any speed....
El video empieza en el minuto 4:50
The next stunt . A 1963 Pontiac 421 tri power car V Fly at 95 MPH . Watch to see what the fly does to a car .
3:52 Squished.
That’s a serious ouchy.
Instergram filter?
FakerBreaker what ?
Lol
About the only meaningful crash testing being done in 1972 was by Saab , Volvo and Mercedes Benz.
I have noticed;
The beetle dummy wasn't using a seatbelt
Dummies don't react to dodge or whatsoever simply because they aren't living souls
The beetle actually didn't perform that bad, it's not like the gas tank was badly hurt and started burning, which is by fact extremely unrealistic
If the dummy was alive, he could clearly see the car was coming in the way and stop, same thing for the other vehicle driver
My 70 beetle has shoulder and lap belts, stock..
In Europe, this was standard - 'lap-only' (or 'shoulder-only') belts were not common at all (except for back seats for lack of mounting-points)
Hopefully you wear them.
I didn't know my best car was that strong. < 1800 LBS.
wtf slow motion in 1971??
Chevelle still running around with a big block in it today!
Imagine what would've happened to a Datsun 510 in the same scenario
See, someone definitely would have come out of that with some injuries, albeit not bad ones, had they been wearing a seatbelt. I think the '72 models introduced the seatbelt and then started upgrading safety features
wcnmvp Seat belts were required for all passenger positions on new vehicles, except for school buses, sold in the U.S. beginning 1/1/1968.
@@nashvilletv Yes, but as you can see on the footage, the test dummy isn't wearing a seatbelt nor is there any signs of one even in the car.
Crash at 3:52
And they both drove away. Good times.
Dash cam
but the steel rails won't affect the results at all
If you lived back in the day and saw wreckage of a beetle vs American car, you usually saw the front end crushed up to the drivers seat.
That DID hurt my Crash Test Cousin. but I walked away,,fine,, really. I did.
In 1974 I was a senior in high school. My step-dad and I had just finished restoring a 1961 Impala. He was traveling about 45-50 mph when a VW Beetle ran a red light and my step-dad T-Boned him. That old Impala crushed the Beetle and went over the top of the VW which was rolling underneath the airborne Impala. My step-dad got a gash in his scalp from the Chevy's rearview mirror. The guy driving the Beetle had to be removed with the hydraulic "jaws of life". VW driver survived with serious injuries and the Impala lost its front bumper, grill and undercarriage. No one wore seatbelts back then or my dad wouldn't have been injured at all. The VW driver would not have even been helped by a seatbelt (or an airbag, had they even been invented in 1974). Drive a heavy vehicle with seatbelt buckled and airbags in working order if you want to live. Lesson learned...
original Mini VS old Impala?
Has nobody tried a T-crash with a front engine car hitting a Malibu?
noise plz
El vocho siempre será chingon
Why is there an HD button on this video ??....Some kind of sick joke?
If the Beetle come to the sides of Chevelle the result is the same.
Was ist mit dem Bildmaterial los?
Wie kann das sein das man die Perforation ,sprich Filmrand sieht?
Das geht eigentliche gar nicht es sei denn irgend ein spezie hat hier etwas in den Film rein gebastelt .
Warum weswegen?
Ich verstehe es nicht was das soll.
So denn…
And now the Malibu has a bug on the front lights.
Rip
Que dó, que dó, que dó... rsrsrs. Era um Chevelle 72!!!! Fazer o quê.
Lol they didn't use airbags in the 70s.