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Read the side impacts results for 2005 and 2006 @ http://www.iihs.org/ratings/ratingsbyseries.aspx?id=358 .

 

Those pictures doesn't show how the driver's door deformed/withstood the impact.

Ah, I see. Thanks. So the basic structure of the car is unchanged, as is depicted in the photos. Paranoid '05 owners can simply swap out their doors for '06 doors should they feel the need.

Don't forget :

 

http://tinypic.com/jhu6f7.jpg

IIHS is on drugs. Other than the rocker panel trim hanging down on the '05, from these two photos, I see very little difference in structural damage.