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Thanks for posting this man. Good to know my Chrysler wants to kill me. (no sarcasm)
The lady sounds evil when she talks.
toyota honda nissan ford mazda are good cars
@bajabusta Yes but in reality, are you going to care about losing a few MPG’s or losing you limbs? I’d rather have a slightly heavier car if means I will have a greater chance of coming out in one piece. In Texas we have some two lane road have 50+ mph speeds in rural areas. Even some of our four lanes in the city limits have no dividers in the middle, so all it takes is for someone on a cell phone to drift over.
That taurus is good considering its a car coming from the 80′s
4:03 The Gov never has enough money
why do they always crash the best equiped models?
for example, the passat vr6 glx, that has no more security features than the standard model, just the vr6 engine and other luxury stuff…
A friend of mine’s mom has a 2003 Kia Sedona that she uses for work. From what I heard those did remarkably well in crash tests. It is actually a nice van, but the air-conditioner does not work worth a damn.
Also, I myself drive a 2010 Toyota Tacoma regular cab 4-cylinder/automatic transmission, just purchased in September. One of my friends occasionally likes to bust my balls for having an “import”.
I hate MOST japanese makes. Especially toyota.
What about the Windstar/Freestar? Those always do okay.
Also, who you think the GMminivans9968 is? You really think he works for GM? I have friends who just chronically hate Japanese vehicles because of how their parents brought them up…I am dead serious.
What type of minivan do you prefer? I like the Honda Odyssey and Toyota Sienna.
Also, FYI, the only thing I like about the newest GM minivans (i.e. Chevrolet Uplander) is that they have an iPod hookup standard LOL.
I do not remember the exact comment, but GMminivans9968 said that the GM Minivans are better than my 2004 Honda Odyssey, or something to that effect.
Too bad the Trans Sport, Silhouette, Lumina APV were such safety disasters in the IIHS test.
We don’t have the money?
This was the 1990s, one of the decades with the most abundance in US history!
yeah, most people only get up to 60-70mph on the freeway, and the freeway is designed with barriers and clear zones and shit so you don’t crash into anything like these tests
the only place where you have to worry about serious high-speed crashes like these is on rural roads, and all rural people drive pickup trucks anyway which are HORRIBLE in crash tests.
obviously you don’t have to worry about it being your location, if that is correct. What everyone fails to consider is this test in 1995 was NEW, and the manufacturers from Toyota, Honda to GM and Chrysler were reeling from the results. That is no exuse for their responses. Most manufacturers have since succeeded at these test w/ any or all redesigns.
Priceless: 9:20 “Chrysler said it would be up to the government to set test standards”… buy cars from this Statist Company at your own risk.
I frequently drive on two lane undivided roads with speed limits of 45 or 55mph. In a head on offset collision in a “good” rated car into the exact same type of car at 45mph I would probably still survive but id be badly injured and at 55mph id be dead… The test speeds are to slow. I know a lot of accidents happen on rural roads with high speed limits like these.
no. Most 65-70 MPH incidents are of the ‘going the same direction’ type not really a test to the front structure like this test depicts. the simple two lane back roads is where these lane cross head on’s occur. thus the speed. Plus if the tests’ were conducted at higher speeds, and required to pass, then the cars would become heavier, and MPG’s would decrease. I disagree w/ your theory.
if anything, we should be testing cars at highway speed: 65 or 70. not 38 or 45 mph.
You cannot be that stupid!? Is he really that stupid!?
Uhh… Europe has just as many if not more standards than North America (Euro NCAP, pedestrian safety crash tests).
Of course, in many modern cars you’d get no injury from an offset test.
this is annoying reporting. throw bunch of hard questions and shut people up. what happen to learn how to drive instead of making cars safer. cars in europe and asia dont need rebars and meet these ridiculous safety standards and people seems to live with them fine.
Taurus is the best car ever made!