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Originally Posted by MikeG22
So your basing crash test durability on an isolated accident which may have caused different damage to each vehicle? Ridiculous. So if I rear end your old probe with my new Benz and break my $2500 headlamps but only wreck your bumper the new Mercedes is less durable in a crash?
How about something like your chances of being alive after a 50mph front end collision or a side impact. I would be a bit more concerned about that then the relative costs of a fender bender.
Besides good crash tested cars are meant to crumble in certain areas to keep you alive.
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It was the small Honda within a year of the age of the Probe so roughly equal priced cars. The lady was not hurt and neither was I but her Honda was sure bent out of shape.
Mike you like riceburners that's fine, we don't and have had good service from the AmeriCanadian cars we have driven. Statistics are whatever you make of them, we only know what we have personally experienced. A simplle example there was a day when you changed mufflers every 20,000 miles. Our twin Impala LSs are tirteen years olf with way more than 20,000 miles and the original mufflers.
Saw results of crash tests on small cars on TV last night, the small Chevy was the only one to survive. The passenger compartment collapsed on all the others. In some cases the steering column shited backward.