it's all gone a bit Ed Doe

[Niall]

Unfortunately when pug designed these, they designed them to try and not transfer the force to the cabin (not that they did a very good job) but it also means the cars arnt very repairable. You look at more modern cars and all these sort of parts are replaceable (admittedly difficult to do). Shame pug couldn't of put a bit more time and money into developing them a bit better. Instead they were basically made as a throw away item. Then again they could of just done away with all safety systems and fitted 4 pots. Probably cheaper!

IMO pug did a very good job of designing the safety systems in these, Theres a fair few people on here who have walked away from massive crashes in 306s (myself included) because the crumple zones are well designed and the chassis is strong where it needs to be.

Yeah don't get me wrong there not bad in a crash. Could be better but for a 13k car, they were fairly safe back in the 90s.
What I'm saying is though is look at other cars and as well as being safe, there also repairable to extents. It seems Peugeot designed these so that any slight head on crash and the car was scrap which is a shame.