My wife had this program on when I was on the computer so I was not 100% watching the program. I believe that the 5 mph crash was against a post positioned in the middle of the rear bumper. I the real world I would think that a more realistic 5 mph crash would involve a front bumper from one car against a rear bumper from a second car in which case the force of the 5 mph would be distributed against the entire rear bumper instead of an area of about 4 inches. I bet that the results would be entirely different if they tested for this senerio.

In any case I lost all respect for these types of distorted, misleading, crap programs when GM caught one of them intensionally setting a charge off on a GM pickup to illustrate on how "unsafe" they were on a side impact. During the actual side impact the pickup didn't explode so they set a charge off to mislead the public that the pickup actually exploded.

My only regret is that GM let them off to easy - they should have took them for all they were worth and then some.

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Ray
1998 Mercedes E320, 200K Miles
2001 Acura 3.2TL, 178K Miles
1992 Chevy Astro, 205K Miles