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Smaller Cars Earn Top Marks in Safety Tests
NY Times ^ | May 28, 2009 | James Kanter

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”

(Excerpt) Read more at greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: automakers; carsafety; green; honda; hyundai; kia; peugeot
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To: Puppage

Was the driver hurt, Puppage?


101 posted on 05/29/2009 12:07:23 PM PDT by postoak
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To: wbill

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.


102 posted on 05/29/2009 12:14:02 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: vpintheak

Most of them are sidewalk commandos who don’t own cars and bum rides..


103 posted on 05/29/2009 12:17:03 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Wicket

GM confirms plans to build compact cars in US
Associated Press ^ | May 29, 2009 | Tom Krisher

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260748/posts


104 posted on 05/29/2009 12:18:10 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Wicket
VIC
105 posted on 05/29/2009 12:21:34 PM PDT by odin2008 (Everything in the universe is subject to change.)
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To: 1010RD

LOL -— You bring perspective to life.


106 posted on 05/29/2009 12:22:53 PM PDT by Tarpon (You abolish your responsibilities, you surrender your rights.)
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To: Wicket

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.


107 posted on 05/29/2009 12:27:34 PM PDT by SeminoleSoldier
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To: odin2008

Thanks for the laugh.


108 posted on 05/29/2009 12:37:42 PM PDT by Wicket (God bless and protect our troops and God bless America)
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To: Wicket

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.


109 posted on 05/29/2009 12:41:04 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: sheik yerbouty

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.


110 posted on 05/29/2009 12:47:38 PM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: ClearCase_guy
I've noticed that a lot of "safety" pronouncements are not about the consumer and the impact of their choices on themselves...

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.

111 posted on 05/29/2009 12:58:26 PM PDT by GulchBound (Who owns you?)
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To: Texas resident
"F=ma."

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.

112 posted on 05/29/2009 1:16:25 PM PDT by Natural Law
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To: postoak
Was the driver hurt, Puppage?

I should think so.

113 posted on 05/29/2009 1:18:33 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: devolve
You are safer on a motorcycle than in a Smart Clown Car.
114 posted on 05/29/2009 2:00:46 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: devolve
Excellent post! It's amazing to see the back end of that mini-car fly up in the air. The front end of the larger car may have been holding the front of it down.
115 posted on 05/29/2009 2:42:42 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: Natural Law

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.


116 posted on 05/29/2009 7:57:02 PM PDT by Texas resident (Texan by birth and by choice.)
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