50 years, maybe.

I'm sorry but I am not buying this. People claim rust or X-frame or whatever but I have owned (and sadly wrecked), steel-bodied cars: 1970 Buick Skylark & 1972 Chevy Nova. I don't know how fast these two cars were supposed to be going, but they cut away from the overhead shot right at impact. There's no engine in this Impala. And that hood crumpled like aluminum foil.. a steel hood would not have done that. The passenger compartments may be safer in today's cars, but the outer body would withstand a lot more punishment before reaching the passenger compartment. So I still call bullshit.

What's the replacement for persil stain fighter? They rebranded or discontinued it

I've got a older bottle before they changed the formula and it works. We also use to mix it with different essential oils and vodka or witch hazel and it was a great fly spray for the horses.

I’m not exaggerating when I say I still don’t know how I came out unscathed besides burned up arms from the airbag from getting into a head on collision in my 94 gmc Sonoma against a Ram truck twice the size of mine, I do feel like older cars have materiel that newer ones don’t use anymore that could save your life, I could be wrong but that’s my opinion.

Tin can v 21 century technology

Subaru should do itself a favor and hire some stylist, their cars are the worst looking cars on the road

This vehicle is getting quite a bit of good journalistic coverage. I look forward to your in-depth testing. I understood from my local Lexus dealer that a new ES sedan will be produced on the basis of this car.

The turbo motor would be a welcome addition. The 2.5 naturally aspirated engine is slow and noisy.

If this Channel doesn't have as many subscribers as you would expect, I can tell you why : Your videos are loaded with fillers and people don't have patience for it.

For the Canadian viewer's hybrid/AWD question, I'm surprised you didn't suggest he look at the Toyota Crown. AWD and hybrid drivetrain are standard, and it's a sedan (kind of) with Toyota reliability which he can find on the lot today.

Im genuinely surprised the bel air crumpled like that, with how thick the metal is and how overbuilt they were.

Very low information density. You could have said it in 5 minutes.

Can you charge the battery while gas engine is running? Will the gas engine charge the battery???

What about air conditioning drain on electric cars? If you want to run air conditioning, then is it best to do it while gas engine is running???

What a beautiful car

Very relevant today is “safety for whom?” Inside the vehicle or outside the vehicle or both? When will we see reviews, scores, and laws that govern vehicle design and mass that affects anyone who is a victim of a crash?

BMW over Honda…that’s cute

I have a 2015 VOLT. No problems. Its the most logical solution. Daily driving on the battery and gas when doing a longer trip. No hassle with chargers.

Auto insurance is government-mandated extortion.

So like how does this tractor compare to the Wheel Horse and Work Horse gray model tractor from the good old year of 1984?🐴🐴🐴

all cheap cars and slow cars MUST have super car brakes.

More safety for cyclists please!

You might want to spred this info to a select few people that think reheating rice is dangerous (its obvioisly not).

Isn’t leftover rice one of the most dangerous things you can eat because of the bacteria that grows?

Yup, I knew it. I also know that many people are seemingly wasting money on prebiotics when it's cheaply and commonly available in these foods.

Is there such thing as rising the bar for drivers to pay attention and to learn predictably of situations without mandating new and expensive tech....!? What is the limit how much the car can spy on drivers?

Thanks IIHS and CR! Keep up the good work! BTW. There must be an opportunity for a gambling app for crash testing. Could be $$$ for IIHS.

Plain looking to me. I have a 2002 ….love it.

The ES takes regular fuel ( 87 octane ) all the way up to the 2021 the 2022's and beyond require premium fuel ( 91 octane or better ) and this guy's Anti Lexus bias is showing big time

No matter how you slice this … paying for full self driving for a test car was a bad call / investment no matter if consumer reports paid now vs a year ago. Monthly subscription for FSD has been available for quite some time now. The only reason I see why they bought it like this is because after car has gone through testing and gets put up for sale, most likely the employees of consumer reports get first dibs with a sweet employee discount. And someone high up the the management wanted to get fully loaded Tesla but at half the price and didn’t want to pay himself full price for FSD they persuaded the acquisitions department to shell full amount for this test car

I love one pedal driving on the Bolt EUV. No motion sickness. I rarely touch the brake pedal.

If only the decrease in crashes actually helped lower the cost of insurance. Instead it raises the price of the car and the insurance bc the insurance company now says if you get into an accident fixing it is so much more expensive. Let the market decide how much they value their safety, if its worth it to them they'll pay. Forcing manufactures to provide something people are unwilling to pay for is bad for everyone.

Starting to look like a Kia. I’m already getting that mileage from my gas Camry on the highway where I spend 99% of miles. I like the horizontal dash layout.

It looks just like a Ford MachE.....

Boring-I don’t plan to intend to get in a crash. New safety tech is strangling modern cars. Having grown up driving 1980”s cars everything now is massively safe and unless we bring in full self driving it is going to far.

if you know how to drive automatic breaking is a pain in the ass, it's an excuses to keep people from learning how to drive and be responsible. human error is always the problem, and chosen collective ignorance just grows.

$60K model3 🤣

Sometimes regulation is good. Back in 1959 there was no regulation. It was just supply and demand. California was the first state to require all new passenger vehicles to come with seat belts.

The ideal phev is where transmission is replaced with electric motors and electronic clutches like volt design. Volt should have been scaled up, it failed because too small.

Not a bad car. 10 years later, there are still plenty of these on the roads with high mileage. The 1.8L engine was the better one too

Would love to see treats tests comparing pedestrian impacts from vehicle size and shape too. A 2024 F150 will hit real differently than a smaller truck or a sedan, and that's definitely something I'd consider when purchasing.

AWD is becoming standard in more and more cars these days. In my opinion, that’s not a good idea and the manufacturers should think twice. AWD should be optional with 2WD as standard. The reason is because while AWD automatically sends power to the wheels that need them the most and improves traction on unpaved or slippery surfaces, it also consumes more fuel since the engine has to work harder to drive all four wheels full-time. Because of this, the extra running costs may not be worth it for those who live where they (feel they) don’t need it.

Car companies in India don't trust these simulations. They use real people, in real cars, on real road who get into real accidents. Then they decide whether to change the design, or just blame the driver for some "extremely sensible reason".

As a 50 year CR member these guys need to get a life, yap yap yap over easy concept that has been around for 15 years. What a bunch of worthless talk

Watch out with your somehow IGNORANT WORDS! “Life saving technology” you DID say? Depending on the quality of the hardware, and software, actual implementation, algorithms and testing done on this “saving” technology, FACT IS: it can and it DOES have put people at risk! Yes, yes, they continue to get better, but do acknowledge that it is NOT PERFECT! Plenty of reports, plus accidents created by the automatic breaking system when there was NOTHING dangerous or in front of the car!

Do NOT show me a useless (or lowly VP)! Bring out the engineers under him!

How about rear collisions. I see lot of rear end collisions, personally had 2 while waiting at the red light. Many vehicles with 3rd row seems to have the seats pretty close to the rear hatch and almost have no rear bumper or rear bumper seems to stay flat with the rear hatch.

Left turn assist would be huge! Most of the motorcyclist fatalities that I read about occurred because a vehicle turned in front of a motorcycle. High-viz ATGATT people!

I appreciate and have followed closely what CR and IIHS has done to promote vehicle safety but there is a lot of room for improvement in both organizations. For example, I've noticed that CR sometimes repeats criticisms of a vehicle model year after year even after a car maker has taken corrective action. While it may not be practical to retest the same model year after year, it's not fair to car makers and consumers to repeat criticisms that are no longer valid. For the IIHS, headlight ratings do not come close to reflecting real world use. For example, headlights that may be acceptable or better when a vehicle is lightly loaded may be worthless to the driver and blinding to oncoming drivers when a vehicle is fully laden with passengers and luggage. Headlights should be tested with a variety of loads and especially when fully loaded to vehicle maximum allowed weights. And can't CR and IIHS do anything to persuade the NHTSA to approve the same adaptive high beam headlights that allowed in the rest of the world? Even Canada gave up on linking their headlight standards to the U.S. around 5 years ago. There no reason for the NHTSA to invent U.S. specific headlight standards which will likely fall short. If "rest of the world" headlights were permitted in the U.S., some car makers could have them in current U.S. market models within months if not within weeks.