2007...Safest Cars

[Vahene]

Link is here: http://www.iihs.org/ratings/default.aspx

Large Car
Audi A6

Midsized Cars
Audi A4
Saab 9-3
Subaru Legacy (with optional electronic stability control)

Minivans
Hyundai Entourage
Kia Sedona

Luxury SUVs
Mercedes M class
Volvo XC90

Midsized SUVs
Acura RDX
Honda Pilot
Subaru B9 Tribeca

Small SUVs
Honda CR-V
Subaru Forester (with optional electronic stability control)

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My own car is a Toyota Scion XA which isn't even listed on their list of cars for Toyota that they tested.

Heh.

No American cars made the list--at all. That's rather scary.

-K

[broncoblitz]

No American cars made the list--at all. That's rather scary.

Its only scary if you drive one, and more and more people aren't.

[Roser]

Datsun for life

[jekyl81]

Datsun for life

To be more precise, Datsun 100A

A great... car... atleast you can pick it up and carry it when you run out of gas.

[Djimnik]

Try not to pay to much attention to the lip service of crash test. They're pretty much a sham. The test are about forces felt in controlled cases. For example, the side impact is done by a machine that simulates the front end of a truck, but only weighs 3300 lbs. 90 % of the trucks on the road way more than 5000 lbs.

One other example off the top of my head, The NTSB gave the Honda Insight a 5 star crash rating. I've seen 2 involved in collisions. One had a repair bill of over 4000 dollars from a encounter with a wall at 10 mph. The other was a total loss from an encounter with another car. Of course no one was hurt in those. I've also seen two american cars that had encounters with cows at freeway speeds where the occupants didn't get hurt. Neither of those cars survived.

If you can't guess, I've worked at body shops for 10+ years now.

[Kell]

Daihatsu appearantly doesn't count anymore. Either it's out of production or it's too dangerous to drive? -.-

[BeyondRedemption]

Try not to pay to much attention to the lip service of crash test. They're pretty much a sham. The test are about forces felt in controlled cases. For example, the side impact is done by a machine that simulates the front end of a truck, but only weighs 3300 lbs. 90 % of the trucks on the road way more than 5000 lbs.

One other example off the top of my head, The NTSB gave the Honda Insight a 5 star crash rating. I've seen 2 involved in collisions. One had a repair bill of over 4000 dollars from a encounter with a wall at 10 mph. The other was a total loss from an encounter with another car. Of course no one was hurt in those. I've also seen two american cars that had encounters with cows at freeway speeds where the occupants didn't get hurt. Neither of those cars survived.

If you can't guess, I've worked at body shops for 10+ years now.

Safety is usually inversely proportional to damage cost. The more a car flies apart while keeping the passenger zone secure, the more energy is directed away from the passengers.

[Djimnik]

Yah, but there comes a point in these small cars where they cut to much mass out. Then get hit by a much larger vehicle. It comes down to the physics of imperfect collision. The vehicle of smaller mass takes more of the force then the larger vehicle. Ever see a normal vehicle get hit by an 18 wheeler? Even at 10 mph, a semi can destroy a small car.

[DFNDR]

if people knew how to drive it wouldnt be a problem