Contestants tear apart and restuff their vehicles with hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of amps, batteries and subwoofers that can produce a sound wave forceful enough tocrumple your lungs.
Go back just a few more days, to last Friday, and there was another report that the Obama campaign would like tocrumple up: U.S. durable-goods orders dropped by 0.4 percent in July, excluding the volatile transportation sector.
Replacing steel with aluminium allows additional interior space to be offered, along with larger crumple zones at the front and rear for even better crash protection, all without paying a heavy penalty in fuel consumption.
Mercedes says the 1959 220S was the first passenger car in the world to feature a dedicated crash structure around the cabin, replete with crumple zones.