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Crumple zones are not between the wheels. If the vehicle crumpled between the wheels people would die. Reinforcing things in the crumple zone is not a good idea. The basic Fusion does well in rear crashes despite having a spare tire, not because of it. But the base Fusion doesn't have a battery to get in the way like the hybrid does, and thus things are DIFFERENT!! You clearly don't understand the physics of vehicle crashes, so please stop posting potentially dangerous advice on public forums. Recommending that somebody modify their vehicle from factory configuration to make it SAFER without any actual knowledge or testing of the idea is irresponsible and could even land you as the subject of a lawsuit.