What he meant is that the crash is a “mirror test” and simulates the results of hitting an equally sized vehicle in the same crash.

What he meant is that the crash is a “mirror test” and simulates the results of hitting an equally sized vehicle in the same crash.

Given that the average American is involved in a car crash once a decade (6 per lifetime), it’s a big consideration.

Except that the 03 impala has a driver death rate comparable to cars from the 90s more than cars from 2010. Buying used is the most important time to check ratings because there was a while (mid 2000s) when there was a huge safety difference between Honda/Toyota/Ford/Volvo and Chevy/Nissan. Fortunately, Chevy has…

I love the end of the video, when McCain finally shuts him down and the response is “yes general”.

Because you, sir, drive a Land Cruiser.

Because you sir, drive a Land Cruiser.

Tesla is really good at spin. The slower speed NHTSA crash test results were trumpeted to the world but when a seat catastrophically fails the tougher euro NCAP required crash testing, it’s called “internal testing prior to... the start of deliveries in Europe.” Like they just decided to run a few more tests and found…

Yes but probably to the NHTSA crash test standard, which is at a lower speed

Umm, that’s a pretty optimistic reading, even of GMs public report. The first fix was deleted from the technical service bulletin database, meaning customers weren’t advised of it. The second fix was a secret engineering fix that changed the part without any documentation. This kept faulty GM products on the road for…

Europe tests to UN standards (moderate offset), which are harder to ace and put more stress on a vehicles structure than US crash testing.

No there’s only 2700 model x that have been delivered with third rows. Pretty sure they’re returning all of them.

That’s why batting average and on base percentage are more important than number of hits or bases reached.

These numbers need to be normalized by comparing the number of incorrect spellings to the number of correctly spelled searches: “[make] bumper”. Otherwise, the numbers don’t mean as much. That is why safety statistics are reported by the IIHS as injury rate and driver death rate. When my sister wanted to buy a used…

Wait, the 200 was a midsize? I always thought of it as a poor attempt to compete with the Honda Civic/Toyota Corolla.

Or, for a used car, look up their online price, ask to speak to the Internet sales manager (often paid on volume of sales, not amount), and agree to the price as long as it passes a maintenance prebuy (including compression check) with the mechanic of my choice). Easy.

Been done before....

Doug, thank you! I haven’t even finished reading yet but I’m thrilled to see this article. Can’t wait till your Land Rover goes out of warranty and your trade or in for a Starbucks frap and go buy a 200 series LC!

I’m not a rider, but that pisses me off! I don’t care if it was illegal to cross a DY. That doesn’t matter. If Mr. Bee-sting saw me roll through a stop sign in a parking lot, and then ran over my wife and I as we got it of the vehicle. I would be livid. I might actually try to kill him.

Part of the reason for Americans buying trucks and SUVs is because the safety of large vehicles had improved dramatically over the last 20 years, and buyers are aware of that. As long as the IIHS keeps tracking driver death rates that show your more than ten times more likely to die in a micro car than in a large SUV,…