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I just got a brand new 2007 ford ranger and my girlfriend rear ended me and it totaled her car bad and my truck only had the bumper bent a little.. how did my truck do this and I have looked around and everything looks good..

Well you 1st have to look at the vehicles. You have a small pickup which is a full frame car. Meaning that the body, and bed are mounted on a frame underneath, which gives rigidity and strength to the car. Your girlfriends car, if it was built after 1983 five if most probably a unibody construction. Unibody or uniframe vehicles don't have a frame. The comprise of frame rails in the front to suppert the suspension and engine, a center part which is the strongest part of the car and houses the passenger compartment and the rear frame rails that support the rear suspension. Unibody car are intended to take in the energy from an affect rather than allowing it to travel through the whole car. This accomplished by "crumple zones". Crumple zones are engineered regions in the frame rails that are intended to collapse under the load of an affect. This lets the energy to be carefully circulated away from the center part of the car and into the ground with out endangering the passengers. Now as far as totaling her car. The term totaled means that the car could cost more to fix than it's worth. if it did total her car from an insurance businesses viewpoint it most likely did more damage to your ranger than you think. 1st look at how the bed fits to the cab, look to see if there are dents in the rear of the cab from where the bed bumped into it. I could propose you have your ranger's frame mounted and electronically calculated to be sure there that there's no damage.

Autobody crash fix Technician 7+ years

define totaled, I have seen an f150 back into an f150 with ones bumper hitting right into the soft spot of the door and caving it it with only paint marks on the bumper, as far as totaling..idk