A big car is like life insurance, except that when you crash your car, it doesn’t pay out to your heirs but instead likely saves your life.
Funny that the government mandates seat belts and helmets - and small cars (at the manufacturer level).
Manufacturers have to make the small cars to meet CAFE standards. So Fiat makes a ton of 500s to offset Jeep Cherokees and Dodge Durangos.
My brother-in-law is a doctor with lots of ER experience and when he married my sister she was driving a mid 90’s Nissan Altima. He went and bought her a Ford Expedition and told her to drive it. She asked why such a big vehicle instead of my car? He said because I have worked too many ER victims cut out of small cars and very few in big vehicles, please drive the Expedition.