Wallaby Dan
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From the stats, it's a combination of a poor design where the fuel tank is placed. It has exhaust and rear-end along with tank in the crumple zone. When hit from behind that area crumples and the fuel tank is shoved into the rear end axle. The tailpipe is also bent into the tank and axle. The design is a poor copy of a bomb if that zone is corrupted. Anyway, back in the seventies chevy trucks had the same issues with side mounted fuel tanks. They were open right behind the fender and nothing to really protect the tank from side hitting accidents. Later they placed them inside the frame rail fixing that issue.