Smaller Cars Earn Top Marks in Safety Tests

NY Times ^ | May 28, 2009 | James Kanter

[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”

[Wicket]

Maybe it's me, but I'm kinda more concerned about whether I end up being a car sandwich in a crash.

[ClearCase_guy]

Let’s have a Honda Jazz collide with a Ford F-150 and see which vehicle does better. Then we’ll decide if smaller cars deserve the “Top Marks”.

[theDentist]

I want to know what conditions and qualifications were altered for the tests, because I don’t believe it.

[pgkdan]

propoganda.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Against what, a bicycle?

[Riodacat]

The fifth car to earn top safety marks was the Audi Q5, a compact crossover nearly the size of an S.U.V.

Whoever wrote this article obviously doen't know sheit from shinola when it comes to vehicles (as evidenced by the above quote), so I would totally discount everything else in this article.

[NativeSon]

bull

[Natural Law]

As a degreed mechanical engineer with a better than average knowledge of physics and material science let me be the first to call Bullshit!

[P-Marlowe]

It said the Honda Jazz and Hyundai i20 racked up “impressive pedestrian scores”

Does that mean that if you crash into a pedestrial, you are less likely to injure them?

[ansel12]

Modern America, safety is every thing now.

[Apercu]

As with Climate Change, PC takes precedence over the laws of physics with the left.I’ll keep driving my Tahoe.

[icwhatudo]

Yep. This is just like the poll about oral sex not being sex that just happened to come out during impeachment.

[ReneeLynn]

Pwha-ha-ha!

[pabianice]

[Lou L]

Next they’ll be telling us that the mini-cars have a better ride than a Mercedes, handle better than a Ferrari, and have more acceleration than a Porsche!

[Red in Blue PA]

....and bigger cars get better gas mileage too.

[pabianice]

http://www.eaa.org/video/eaa.html?videoId=24522334001

[Carl LaFong]

The NYT has declared the laws of mass and inertia have been hopey- changed.

[Professional Engineer]

That, and the giant 4,500 gram towing capacity.

[mort56]

Let the propaganda begin!