05-26-2008, 06:32 PM
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Hello world!
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Originally Posted by MakingItPay
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Tha article doesn't give me faith in the safety of the vehicle.
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"All things being equal in safety, bigger and heavier is always better," said institute president Adrian Lund in an statement. "But among the smallest cars, the engineers at Smart did their homework and designed a high level of safety into a very small package."
In the NHTSA front crash test, the ForTwo earned . . . just "Three Stars" for passenger protection. Few vehicles today get ratings as low as three stars in NHTSA's front crash tests.
Results from front impact crash tests, no matter how they are conducted, cannot be compared between cars of different sizes. In a real-world front crash, occupants in a smaller vehicle would experience greater crash forces when hitting a larger vehicle going in the opposite direction.
The Smart ForTwo earned the best possible ratings in side impact tests . . . but in both cases, the door became unlatched during the crash tests. While that didn't affect the final score in either case, it's not ideal, said IIHS's Lund.
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