I can tell you all this:
I was rear-ended on I-94 north of Chicago last November by a young woman driving a mini. (She had knocked her water bottle onto the floor and was trying to retrieve it, so didn't notice that traffic had stopped in front of her.) Totaled both my Ranger pick-up and her mini.
The salient point is that my tailgate wound up right against her windshield; my rear wheels and axle were off the ground, and that thing supported all of it. When the tow truck tried to pull my truck onto the flat bed, he had to draw the two of them up to the back of his rig and pull my truck off her hood. That mini simply rolled forward when he winched and carried my truck with it.
And the woman wasn't hurt! It was a significant crash to total my truck - bent frame, etc., and of course the mini was trashed. I gained a certain respect for the mini's with that event.
