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All modern cars have crumple zones - though smaller cars like the smart and A/B Class have very short crumple zones.

The difference in your video is the improvements in passenger safety cell construction - much of which comes down to higher strength steel being used in the passenger safety cell. Compare the size of the door pillars between a modern car and one from the 90s - in modern cars they are often twice as thick.

A modern volvo of the same size will fare even better than the renault.




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