First off, the fiero looks unsafe but it acutally recived a 5 star safty, just like volvos and such. If you look under the fiero's plastics you will see a full space frame, that is very very strong, probably just as safe as having a roll cage in a civic. side impacts yea there is a 30 lb beam inside the door for that, the full door alown wieghs more then 100 lbs. the heaviest fiero made (88 gt) was just over 3000lbs. they are extreamly safe cars. gas tanks on these cars is exactly in the middle (between the driver and the passanger, dont have to worry about it getting hit) the only thing that made these cars unsafe was back in 84 GM made some shitty rods and they would break and go through the block and oil splattering on the manifold/cat caused a fire.