From: CONRADIE@firga.sun.ac.za (Gerrit Conradie)
Subject: Re: Is car saftey important? 
Organization: University of Stellenbosch, SA
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In article <1993Apr20.163527.12773@bnr.ca> tcorkum@bnr.ca (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

