Posted on 05/29/2009 10:36:55 AM PDT by Wicket
A study of car safety released on Wednesday shows that four of the top-scoring automobiles in tests of five new models were small cars or so-called super-minis — including the Honda Jazz, Hyundai i20, Kia Soul and Peugeot 3008. . .
Seats installed in the Kia Soul, for example, “achieved a good result in the program’s whiplash testing, again revealing that it is not only larger or expensive cars that achieve impressive results in safety.” . . .
It said the Honda Jazz and Hyundai i20 racked up “impressive pedestrian scores”
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Was the driver hurt, Puppage?
I had a Nissan hit my old Blazer with a steel step bumper. the nissan was a steaming wreck; my bumper was scratched. It’s like it happened in another state.
Most of them are sidewalk commandos who don’t own cars and bum rides..
GM confirms plans to build compact cars in US
Associated Press ^ | May 29, 2009 | Tom Krisher
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LOL -— You bring perspective to life.
The ONLY way for a smaller/lighter car to have equal safety as a bigger car is to use significantly better materials and design.
IOW, much more expensive.
Our economy and our safety are being slaughtered on the alter of leftwing environmental nuttiness.
Thanks for the laugh.
Remember when VW used to buy bugs that had been in wrecks? They didn’t want anyone to see what happens to a VW bug n a wreck, so they would buy the wrecks and destroy them.
I have passed a few of these small cars on the highway in my motorcycle, and I fear for their lives in those tiny things. It is impossible to have a family in those vehicles, which would require more vehicles on the road to transport the family. In other words, retardation.
This is exactly how they will try to get rid of SUVs. Put out BS propaganda about how safe the rolling kleenex boxes are, and how unsafe the 5000lb SUVs are. Then find/cause some high profile accidents in SUV rollovers. Then go on a campaign to eliminate those SUV 'death traps'. All in the name of safety, of course.
Not exactly. We are talking about kinetic energy which is one half the mass times the velocity squared (½ mv²). This means that the relative mass of the two objects is much more significant such that a collision with a larger vehicle has the effect of greatly amplifying the effective velocity of the smaller vehicle.
I should think so.
True enough, but when a yugo gets in a collision with a 1 ton Dodge truck, the yugo driver is in a hell of a mess.
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