Old car crashes & deaths vs new car crashes & deaths

I don’t like the way some of the new ones come apart, they peal like a big banana. I saw pictures of a charger that hit a pillar and the car split in three peace’s with the sides not taking any of the impact just breaking from the center, and the engine about 200 feet in front of the vehicle. The center of the car was crushed back severely.
Even with how bad of an impact you just described you do realize it would have been 10 times worse same scenario with a 69 Charger?