file.newsgroup.cars.103194 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Gerrit Conradie)
Subject: Re: Is car saftey important?
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Trevor Corkum) writes:
>Subject: Is car saftey important?
> I was recently thumbing through the 1993 Lemon-Aid New
>Car Guide. What I found was a car would be given a 'Recommended'
>under the picture while a few sentences later noting how a
>driver and passenger were virtually guaranteed to be killed
>in a front end collision. The most highly recommended small
>car (The Civic) has the worst crash rating of all of the small
>cars listed. There were many such cases of 'great' vehicles
>where you wouldn't survive an accident. Is it only me, or is
>safety not one of the most important factors when buying a car?
>
Definitely!
Safety is an important criterium for me when buying a car. I won't buy a
small car like a Civic or whatever.
Great = Safety + Handling + Speed - for me
Seems to me that you would be more "dead" in a small car than a large car
after an accident.
- gerrit