20 Most Dangerous Vehicles on the Road today.
 

An interesting story came up over on Digg today about the most dangerous vehicles on the road and they had an interesting quote to start the article.

No wonder we all passed on that thing. :P

For the full article, go HERE.

Some of those ratings don't make sense...It seems like some of the cars fared really well, but since they weren't 5-stars across the board, they were "dangerous."

I noticed the 8 isnt on there :) :) :) congrats to us!!!

It was weird...the 350z didn't even make the top 20 so I don't know how it got singled out in the story.

They start the article talking about the Z. It isn't even in their worst 20. I find that misleading.

:uhh: here:

"...the 350Z is part of a group of vehicles that tends to be driven by younger, less experienced or riskier drivers, and stands out for having high death rates, through no particular fault of the car."

^^^ then why even mention the Z? :scratchhe

I'm not sure I follow some of those... I thought the s2000 was rather good on safety... oh well. We didnt make it on the list, so that's good.

except for the s2k and the 3, theyre mostly little ugly cars that i would never even consider. rx-8: 1. uglycars: 0

I dont know....maybe they hate the z....their whole chart is stupid anyways.

I think they were just trying to make it more apparent that they factored in driver error, and that it wasnt an error from the assumption of what caused some statistics

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is an ad-hoc agency with absolutely zero credibility.

Notice the same message in the top 20 list - no side airbags standard.

These are the same people who 10 years ago advocated keeping insurance rates low on pickups and SUV's due to the safety they offered their own occupants.

These are the same people who aggresively campaigned the major players Allstate, State Farm, Nationwide, Farmers and a handful of others to keep the insurance rates higher on sports cars like the Corvette despite their much lower cost to insure ratios. The reasoning was that high performance sports cars were luxuries and could be used to offset the cost of insurance of the aging fleet of mini-pickups - many of which were riding around uninsured.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety would better serve mankind if they moved to Iraq.

Ok, they can move to Iraq.

Well, thanks for that tid bit of info on the IIHS, but I think they would be better in India crashing the G-Wiz or something. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quHzOK9chx8

I still want to tell my coworker the following quote, because she always tells me I should have just bought a pick up truck. I don't know @#$ why but she does...

"Pickups are another surprisingly unsafe group of vehicles. Based on fatality-rate data, they're by far the most dangerous, says Michael Dulberger, president of the safety advocacy group Informed for Life."

Excuse me since this off-topic from the original post (didn't read the linked article either). However, regarding the IIHS, my understanding is that it is the other way around. The IIHS is funded by the insurance companies, so it is the insurance companies who use the IIHS to campaign their causes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IIHS

Cheers

this top 20 is flawed....the s2000 is on it just because it doesnt have side airbags...but it still has 5 star crash ratings....

It seems most of the cars on this list are cheaper cars, and the criteria for safety isn't crash results but how many airbags the vehicle has. Seems like they just needed an article and told one of the interns to whip something up fast.

+1 for a gay article thats worthless in making life better and causing drama......

The statement by Toyota if full of it. I am a Toyota salesman and they never instructed us to tout the advantages of side airbags unless the vehicle has it. If it is so important to Toyota, the why was the 2008 and 2007 Corollas unavailable in the South East district. If a customer wanted side airbags in a Corolla we had order from the factory. There was none ever available from NC to FL.