Crash Test Video: WOW!

Also we should remember that the new Malibu with 4 wheel disk brakes would stop on a dime compared to any late 50s sedan with most likely 4 wheel drums. The modern DOHC V6 in the Malibu would utterly destroy a comparable strait 6 from the Bel Airs era at the dragstrip, hell it would smoke a 283 or 348 or whatever engine might have been in that car for that year.