Only 2 of the 9 SUV's passed the safety crash tests

intheburbs wrote:

Turtle n Peeps wrote:


Now; how can "lighter vehicles" kill thousands of people when vehicles are getting heaver with every single model year after year?

Here is the real truth for those that want to know it. Even with pictures! :B

More truth and more pictures. Even really cool pictures. :B

Boy, you really do have a reading comprehension problem, don't you?

I notice you never even replied to my point about ALL vehicles performing poorly in the test in your OP. Three vehicles got acceptable ratings on that test. Three. Out of how many tested?

And talk about cherry picking - in the article that you link to showing the size changes in the F150, the article even admits. "The ubiquitous Ford pickup shrank considerably after the gas shocks of the 1970s. But after that it ballooned into the masonite-hauling behemoth we have today." So they're admitting that the comparison is manipulative.

And then on to your reading comprehension deficiency - there's this quote from the article: "The major culprit in cars' expanding waistlines is indeed safety specs"

So you're competely contradicting yourself - you start a thread complaining about how SUVs do poorly in a crash test (where ALL vehicles do poorly), then you complain about cars getting larger and post a link to an article that admits cars are getting larger because of safety requirements. Do you realize how silly you're making yourself look?

Lastly - I learned to drive on a 1973 Ford LTD Country Squire (complete with fake wood paneling on the sides). It was a pretty common car in the day, and GM and Chrysler had similarly-sized wagons. The car was 226 inches long. My Suburban is 222 inches long.