Re: Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers

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>>You may be right in many of your specifics, but I think that their >>detail confuses the basic question here. The NHTSA study is not based >>on arguments about physics, or even on crash tests. It is based or >>real world data: it is based on then number of people who have in fact >>died in SUVs as compared to the number of people who have died in >>passenger cars of comparable or even less weight. >> > > > I'll tell you who is wrong in their specifics. Am I the only one to > read the report that is being MIS-quoted? > > Driver Fatalities per Billion Vehicle Miles > Very small 4-door cars 11.56 > Small 4-door cars 7.85 > Mid-size 4-door cars 5.26 > Large 4-door cars 3.30 > Compact pickup trucks 6.82 > Large (100-series) pickup trucks 4.07 > Small 4-door SUVs 5.68 > Mid-size 4-door SUVs 6.73 > Large 4-door SUVs 6.79 > Minivans 2.76 > > The Four vehicle groups with the lowest fatality rates for their own > drivers were minivans (2.76), large cars (3.30), large SUVs (3.79), and > large (100-series) pickup trucks (4.07). > > Look who's on top.

Yep, and I own two minivans and a pickup, but not for reasons of safety. I also ride a motorcycle when weather permits and they typically don't fair nearly as well safety-wise, but are great from a fuel mileage perspective.

Matt

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Matthew S. Whiting
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the '80s Jaguar XJ6 / XJ12s used to do that - they had fuel tanks in each rear quarter which would burst and spray fuel into the interior.. Changed with the XJ40s

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Dave Milne

the Kadett was a horrible piece of shit, with a rusty body, awful gearbox and weak 4 cyl thrashy engine. The brakes were great and the handling was pretty good for a small car, but the build quality sucked..

I had one ...

Dave Milne, Scotland '99 TJ 4.0 Sahara

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: >Lloyd Parker wrote: : >

: >> Yeah, we got Pintos, Vegas, and Gremlins. : >

: >I can't speak to Vegas and Gremlins, but I did own a shiny new 1972 Pinto. : The : >only import car in the same price range that was better in my opinion was the : >Datsun 510 (and it was more expensive). The low cost Toyotas available in the : >Eastern US in 1972 were low grade junk and too small inside besides. : : I had a 1972 Corolla that was an excellent entry-level car. Opel was also : selling Kadetts and 1900s that were good cars. : : : >The VWs : >sold at that time were laugable. The 510 was a great little car. I probably : >would have bought one if there had been a dealer in my home town. The biggest : >problem the US companies had was their desire to not build low price cars : that : >would take sales away from their other models. : >

: >Ed : >

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Dave Milne

Too bad they never imported the Holden Torana--a slightly lengthened, reinforced Kadett that in one version, Holden actually had plans to stuff a 5-liter V8 into. They were also available in left-hand drive versions until about 1980, and the post-1974 models were actually slightly larger than Vegas (101" wheelbase), and _were_ available with 5-liter engines (or fours or sixes), as well as radial tuned rally suspension.

--Aardwolf.

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Aardwolf

real bad boys cars those. Lots on the road here in NZ, now they're a popular Drag conversion car, with big tubbed wheels and a 5.7L cehv 350ci engine running Menthol with a turbo per 2 cylinders.

rhys

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rnf2

I'm glad I didn't know that when I had one!

-- Rickety

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rickety

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