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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike McFarland who wrote (13521)	6/10/2007 6:28:56 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36918

Interesting, we just recently bought a Subaru and I found the seats exceptionally good. This is a little strange--by requiring electronic stability control to make the list, that automatically favors tall wagons that offer it versus sedans that don't need it. Since it's the insurance industry making that decision I suspect it's solely based on a statistical analysis. Since we don't have said analysis in hand, I'd guess that it reduces the odds of an accident to begin with. I saw a article on a study that with all people say about performance, safety, etc... when it comes to making a decision most people are willing to trade off what they say is most important to them for the color of the vehicle. Which no one ever mentions as important. It seems that you weren't aware that there wasn't a ranking of safest cars. I'll ask, the next time you're in the market for a vehicle will you google for "safest cars" or just head to the used fleet car sale? And if you knew that Ford wasn't on the safest vehicle list would you have bought it anyway? Those are questions for you to answer to yourself. I suppose even you won't know the answers until you're in the market for a vehicle. How long are you going to keep that death trap you're wife is driving? [Just joking.] jttmab