Originally Posted by sgtsmile
They were good as long as you didnt go over 90ish kmph...
Ever see one t boned? passenger door was touching the driver in the one i saw, and the speed was not great....
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I don't think they did any worse than other similar sized cars of that era...they always seem to hold their own at the demolition derbies. I recall the Aries being rated as "Acceptable" in the overall crash test ratings. Also, every single one I've ever been in has never had a problem cruising at 110-120 km/h, unless there was something seriously wrong with it.
These were the cars that brought Chrysler back from the brink of bankruptcy, and they sold an awful lot of them. Add to this the fact that people in America won't buy a car that cannot cruise at 70 MPH. Had they been unreasonably unsafe as well, I would think that would have been the death blow to Chrysler.