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Old 08-16-2007, 10:25 PM
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What a non-story. Good example of the media making up reasons to sell papers.

It is a safe care, as are the others tested. To ignore all of the dynamic safety features such as DSC, ABS, etc, the entire subject of frontal impacts, and to focus only on one test run of a side impact from a sledge, in a specific location, at a specific angle, at a specific speed, and draw a conclusion out of that on vehicle safety, is ludicrous. They note that changing the seat position would impact the result. Of course it would. I am 6'4", the seat is all the way back, and the armrest is nowhere near my ribs.

This is just like the Hyundai (or whatever it was) advertisement where their new car is faster than a 525. So what?

Not sure which is worse, the IIHS publishing this test and the news release, Fox writing a story on it, or me wasting time thinking about it. Do people actually make purchase decisions on information like this?

/rant over
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