“Aston Martin is a premium car and can only be compared with Maybachs and some Mercedes and BMW series.”
- In Europe, “premium cars” are vehicles like SAABs, BMWs, Audis, Volvos etc. Maybachs and the most expensive Mercedes’s, Bentleys and such cars are referred to as “luxury cars”. The vast majority of Europeans drive Fiats, Opels, Fords, Peugeogts etc. In some corners of Europe, like the richest parts of Germany, “premium” cars are average cars so to say. But Switzerland, Bavaria, Hamburg, Sweden and Luxembourg really constitute exceptions.
When it comes to safety, no court could convince me concerning the subject. They are lawyers, not experts on car safety.
Folksam, a Swedish insurance company that does a lot of research into this matter usually gives very high credits to Toyota models, but there are clear exceptions. I've read their reports for years on and from what I can tell they view SAAB as the safest make based on examinations of real, actual road accidents. Audi and Volvo are also ranked high.
But, naturally, their statistics and conclusions are arrived at from Swedish circumstances which differ from those of, say California or Sicily, where there, to begin with, seldom are snow and ice on the roads and so on.