>These companies care about one thing, what sells and makes them money. These companies are also run by humans, and are so in many ways prisoners to fashion as

>These companies care about one thing, what sells and makes them money. These companies are also run by humans, and are so in many ways prisoners to fashion as we all are to an extent, and are vulnerable to public obloquy, even from a public that's... dumb. >What's more likely is these were cars were boats built on ancient body-on-frame >platforms into 1990's, The ancient platforms you are talking about, were designed in the late 1970s. >which were killed in sales by Japanese sedans perceived as more efficient >reliable (Honda Civic, Accord or Toyota Camry/Corolla). Discussions of reliability aside, nobody in their wildest fever-dreams were cross-shopping a Buick Roadmaster and a Civic. >Not to mention the body-on-frame sedans were not up to increasingly stringent >crash tests, which required crumple zones. There is no real obstacle in making a body on frame sedan with crumple zones. Modern body-on-frame trucks have them. >The B-Body platform Impala you refer to is a variant of a platform that was >introduced in the 1920s! You're reading something, probably Wikipedia, and drawing incorrect conclusions.