Nolimits
10-30-05, 04:24 AM
The article appeared in Car and Driver back in early October:
http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?section_id=30&article_id=10176
Vehicle size is strongly related to injury and collision claims, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a new report compiled annually by the Highway Loss Data Institute, the data branch of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a nonprofit group funded by auto insurers.
This year's report measures insurance losses for 2002 to 2004 model-year vehicles from their first sales to May 2005. The study is based on data from 20 or so of the largest insurers and looks at passenger cars, pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles.
Among vehicles with substantially worse than average injury losses, the Dodge Neon SRT-4, which is no longer produced, came in first. Other vehicles that ranked worse than average for injury losses include the Suzuki Aerio, Kia Spectra sedan and hatchback, Suzuki Forenza and Mitsubishi Lancer.
Vehicles with much better than average injury losses include bigger four-wheel drive pickups such as the Chevrolet Silverado 3500 crew, GMC Sierra 1500 crew and Dodge Ram 3500 quad; two-wheel drive pickups such as the Chevrolet Silverado 2500; and four-wheel drive SUVs like the Toyota Land Cruiser. The results also show that within vehicle categories such as four-door cars or luxury cars, larger vehicles tended to have better injury loss results than their smaller counterparts.
Those with better than average collision losses include the Buick LeSabre and four-wheel drive Ford F-150 supercab. The vehicle with the highest theft losses was the four-door, four-wheel-drive Cadillac Escalade EXT, topping the list for a second year in a row and followed by a host of other Cadillac Escalade models.
Damn, it seems alot of people had survived wrecks with their SRT's, but then again, the ones who didn't live to tell about it probably won't be able to post on the forums how much the SRT-4 sucks at safety unfortunately. :(
http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?section_id=30&article_id=10176
Vehicle size is strongly related to injury and collision claims, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a new report compiled annually by the Highway Loss Data Institute, the data branch of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a nonprofit group funded by auto insurers.
This year's report measures insurance losses for 2002 to 2004 model-year vehicles from their first sales to May 2005. The study is based on data from 20 or so of the largest insurers and looks at passenger cars, pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles.
Among vehicles with substantially worse than average injury losses, the Dodge Neon SRT-4, which is no longer produced, came in first. Other vehicles that ranked worse than average for injury losses include the Suzuki Aerio, Kia Spectra sedan and hatchback, Suzuki Forenza and Mitsubishi Lancer.
Vehicles with much better than average injury losses include bigger four-wheel drive pickups such as the Chevrolet Silverado 3500 crew, GMC Sierra 1500 crew and Dodge Ram 3500 quad; two-wheel drive pickups such as the Chevrolet Silverado 2500; and four-wheel drive SUVs like the Toyota Land Cruiser. The results also show that within vehicle categories such as four-door cars or luxury cars, larger vehicles tended to have better injury loss results than their smaller counterparts.
Those with better than average collision losses include the Buick LeSabre and four-wheel drive Ford F-150 supercab. The vehicle with the highest theft losses was the four-door, four-wheel-drive Cadillac Escalade EXT, topping the list for a second year in a row and followed by a host of other Cadillac Escalade models.
Damn, it seems alot of people had survived wrecks with their SRT's, but then again, the ones who didn't live to tell about it probably won't be able to post on the forums how much the SRT-4 sucks at safety unfortunately. :(