Or at least Japanese Car Proof.
This is the second time in 2 years that teen aged girl in a Japanese car has backed out of a parking slot into the side of my car.
The first one she hit my left front fender and did minimal damage to the Lexus and over $1000 damage to her car.
Today another teenage girl in a Nisan Sentra backed into me and hit the left rear side doing over $2k in damage to the Nisan and less than $20 worth of paint scratches to the Lexus. Maybe I should lower my deductible so I can collect....LOL

 

Funny, usually when I read this I think in mechanical terms :-). Hope you never have to mean that phrase literally...

 

Modern cars are much flimsier due to crumple zone designs and pedestrian friendly features (as if crashing into a pedestrian is ever "friendly").
As a consequence even the lightest of taps can cause substantial damage but rarely to the structure of the vehicle, just to all the flimsy bolt on parts.
The LS is from an earlier era when cars were built more solidly, and it's more solid than most of it's contemporaries as well.

A friend does what we call "Banger racing" which is Demolition Derby run over so many laps of a dirt oval track.
His favourite cars are 1970s Ford Granada (Taurus), Volvo 1 and 2 series, and Japanese limos from the 90s and 00s, but his longest ever lasting car was an LS400.
It had so much rust on the rear arches that his competitors were surprised it survived the first race at all.
He finally retired (crushed) it after about 15 races because the engine was shot and not one single body panel (including the roof) was undamaged, but he told me that the heated drivers seat still worked fine <LOL>

 

I would call the LS430 a modern car. But it is stout. Wouldnt put it up against my 1956 Continental at 5200 pounds, though.