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I am mostly in agreement with you but why would the area of the car matter? You can potentially have bigger crumple zones, but that'd exclude the space that is used for passengers. Other than that, the energy transferred in a collision is relative to the mass, where the lighter vehicle receives a larger proportion of the energy than the heavier one.
Crumple zones are one thing, but also there might be more distance between you and the door in a bigger vehicle, etc. So somehow that's how it scales