1. Consider that this is an offset crash, all of the crash energy has to be absorbed by only one side of the car. This is nearly equivalent to a full head-on crash at ~70mph or so.
2. Those complaining about the roof buckling. Look at where the roof buckled. It is clearly designed to buckle in that location, in order to maintain a safe passenger compartment (it buckles BETWEEN the front and rear passenger areas)
3. The passenger compartment remains pretty well intact, despite the appearance of things. Remember, Ford, nor any other automaker, has the ability to change the laws of physics, so the crash energy has to go somewhere. I would much rather the crash energy go into the structure of the vehicle, making it ugly, than into me, making me even uglier, or dead.
I guess that's one of my pet peeves, that people yell and scream about crash protection etc, etc, like somehow the engineers can violate physics. I think cars today are EXTREMELY safe, but it is still a very traumatic event for anyhting over a minor fender bender, and a lot of people don't realize that. Do yourselves a favor, and tighten the nut behind the wheel as often as possible, so that you can avoid most accidents in the first place.
