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    Kia Soul, Insight And Prius Awarded IIHS Top Safety Ratings

    IIHS: PT Cruiser Most Dangerous New Small Car In America
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    08/13/09

    In reply to Kia Soul, Insight And Prius Awarded IIHS Top Safety Ratings
    Of course they are safe. After all they have been designed to cater for the needs of Asian woman drivers.
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    Image of Socialvegetable Socialvegetable
    08/13/09

    In reply to Kia Soul, Insight And Prius Awarded IIHS Top Safety Ratings
    This comes as no surprise to me. I rear-ended a Kia Spectra at about 5-10 mph merging onto a highway. The Kia's rear bumper was a little scuffed. My '96 Firebird on the otherhand is in the body shop getting a new hood, font bumper cover, passenger headlight assembly, and passenger front fender. The Kia driver and I were both stunned by the amount of damage my car took, but I guess we shouldn't have been.

    Cost to repair his car: less than $500
    Cost to repair mine: hahahaha. I have to laugh to fight back the tears.
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    philibuster promoted this comment Socialvegetable was starred Socialvegetable was unstarred
    Image of philibuster philibuster
    08/13/09

    @Socialvegetable: Rear enders usually have much more damage than the rear endees. The rear of the car is not built as softly as the front, because how often are you driving backwards quickly into something?
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    08/13/09

    @philibuster: Ask my sister, who somehow managed to launch my uncle's 5.0 liter Mustang in reverse directly into the semi behind her at the light.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    08/13/09

    @philibuster: That, and when both vehicles are braking hard, especially a wedge-shaped Firebird, the active vehicle often ends up underneath the passive one's bumper, damaging its hood as well.
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    Image of Flathead Smith Flathead Smith
    08/13/09

    In reply to Kia Soul, Insight And Prius Awarded IIHS Top Safety Ratings
    I don’t trust any deranged entity that destroys perfectly good cars
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    FP - Funny how it seems quiet around here, eh? promoted this comment Flathead Smith was starred Flathead Smith was unstarred
    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    08/13/09

    @Flathead Smith: There are only two perfectly good cars here.
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    Image of STR8SIX STR8SIX
    08/13/09

    In reply to Kia Soul, Insight And Prius Awarded IIHS Top Safety Ratings
    The Prius rating must have been blogged before the Li-ion battery pack vented and set the lab on fire.
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    FP - Funny how it seems quiet around here, eh? promoted this comment STR8SIX was starred STR8SIX was unstarred
    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    08/13/09

    @STR8SIX: JESUS CHRIST IT'S A Li-ION GET OUT OF THE CAR?
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    Image of MrHowser: Now on XBL as NoReturnPolicy MrHowser: Now on XBL as NoReturnPolicy
    08/13/09

    @FP - Funny how it seems quiet around here, eh?: Hahaha TFD... or is that MTTS? Wish I could heart-click you again for that.
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    FP - Funny how it seems quiet around here, eh? promoted this comment MrHowser: Now on XBL as NoReturnPolicy was starred MrHowser: Now on XBL as NoReturnPolicy was unstarred
    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    08/13/09


    @MrHowser: Appears to be the former. I suspected it was.

    I've also got his panflute chart Sharpied on my bedroom wall.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    08/13/09

    In reply to Kia Soul, Insight And Prius Awarded IIHS Top Safety Ratings
    Excellent crash performance should translate into a stiffer chassis and better mounts subframes and components. These should translate into better handling and vehicle dynamics.
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    Image of HammSammich HammSammich
    08/13/09

    In reply to Kia Soul, Insight And Prius Awarded IIHS Top Safety Ratings
    So given their excellent crash survivability rating, I'm hoping for a professional demolition derby series featuring only Toyota and Honda hybrids.
    "Sunday, Sunday Sunday...8pm at the Fairgrounds, it's Battle of the Hybrids! Watch as your favorite drivers narrowly escape chemical burns and electrocution. If you're not there you better be dead or in Jail...and if you are in Jail...Breakout!"
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    Image of goatrope goatrope
    08/13/09

    In reply to Kia Soul, Insight And Prius Awarded IIHS Top Safety Ratings
    The IIHS tests are getting too easy to ace. these automakers with their supercomputers are able to dial in their desired scores. It's like the automakers are a frat house with copies of all the old tests filed away for the football players.
    Obviously, it's time for the IIHS to modify their testing procedures. I think randomly-placed explosive charges will liven things up a bit.
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    08/13/09

    In reply to Kia Soul, Insight And Prius Awarded IIHS Top Safety Ratings
    I'm pleased that the Soul did well. The prospective drivers of these are probably going to do something stupid, but they've got their whole lives ahead of them to wise up.
    But why are we trying to save the Yippies*?
    *Yippie:n.1: A former yuppie turned hippie using "ill-gotten" gains in a manner in which to atone for their misdeeds whilst suckling at the corporate teat.
    2: A hippie, who is, despite the patchouli stench, gainfully employed, and can afford a Prius over an '83 Vanagon.
    var: yippy pl: yippies.
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    Image of SagarikaLumos SagarikaLumos
    08/13/09

    @smalleyxb122: I'm not sure how the Soul got a good rating in the frontal crash since the driver dummy's head went outside (see the freeze frame shown when the movie is unplayed). It could easily strike the post or mirror whilst flailing about. That isn't safe.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    08/13/09

    @smalleyxb122: Yippie: a member of the Youth International Party; see Abbie Hoffman.
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    Image of LBJ's Love Child LBJ's Love Child
    08/13/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet:
    I still have my membership card from 1970 somewhere. Oh wait, I think I burned it.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    08/13/09

    @LBJ's Love Child: Sure you didn't confuse it with your draft card? Easy mistake.
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    Image of Karsten Von Urea for All Sales Event Karsten Von Urea for All Sales Event
    08/13/09

    In reply to Kia Soul, Insight And Prius Awarded IIHS Top Safety Ratings
    The 2010 Kia Soul (Why not Seoul?) also gets my pick for the only box car I don't absolutely detest. Congratulations on the award and your sexy rear sloping roof.
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    pauljones promoted this comment Karsten Von Urea for All Sales Event was starred Karsten Von Urea for All Sales Event was unstarred
    Image of pauljones pauljones
    08/13/09

    @Karsten Von Urea for All Sales Event: Actually, as odd as it is, the Nissan Cube is pretty cool. I just wish that Toyota would bring back the original xB, as the new one just has no soul, pardon the pun.
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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    08/13/09

    In reply to Kia Soul, Insight And Prius Awarded IIHS Top Safety Ratings
    "Why did the wife make me buy this thing?! I give up. There's a tree." SMASH. "Dammit."
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    Image of Z71 Z71
    08/13/09

    @Ash78: Investigator: "Ah, it's a classic case of Prius-remorse."
    Cop: "But, how did he end up in the grille of that Mack truck if he crashed over there?"
    Investigator: "Well, the Prius is just so horrible that when he tried to crash and kill himself he realized that he couldn't. This caused his brain to implode with rage and he ran straight into traffic, causing much more damage."
    Cop: If only the Prius was unsafe, it could have saved the lives of those 50 people who crashed when he ran into traffic.
    Investigator: "If only..."
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    The-Simpsons-Rule!! promoted this comment Z71 was starred Z71 was unstarred
    Image of layabout layabout
    12/18/08

    In reply to IIHS: PT Cruiser Most Dangerous New Small Car In America
    How the fuck can anyone class this as a small car?
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    12/18/08

    In reply to IIHS: PT Cruiser Most Dangerous New Small Car In America
    The worse thing about these IIHS tests is that any sort of "Poor" rating instantly labels the car dangerous. The PT Cruiser is not dangerous, it's just an ugly, slow, poor-handling, low-technology car. It's less dangerous than that SWB Jeep Wrangler that passed you at 85 mph.


    Does GM still make the Safari/Astro? Because that sucker got an abysmal frontal crash rating. Almost as bad as the Toyota Previa, which was a veritable death trap in a frontal accident (that's a big reason why the Sienna was born). And nobody ever called the Previa the most dangerous car in America.

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    Image of madanthony madanthony
    12/17/08

    In reply to IIHS: PT Cruiser Most Dangerous New Small Car In America
    Having owned a 2002 PT Cruiser, I can say it was a quite safe car, mostly because it spent so much time in the shop that it kept me from driving it and having an accident.


    In the 5 years I owned it (during which I only put ~45k miles on it), I had the sensor that makes the check engine light work fail, the entire gauge cluster stop working, the transmission controller fail, and the air bag light would come on every time it rained.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/17/08

    @madanthony: I thought my friend's Neon, with its periodically-failing speedometer, was bad.
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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    12/17/08

    In reply to IIHS: PT Cruiser Most Dangerous New Small Car In America
    To hell with it, I guess I'll just go back to motorcycles.
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    12/17/08

    @Tanshanomi: No kidding. I might be getting a Buell for Christmas.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/17/08

    @Tanshanomi: Active safety for the win.
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    Image of Ayyub Ayyub
    12/17/08

    In reply to IIHS: PT Cruiser Most Dangerous New Small Car In America
    I'll be sure to tell my ex-girlfriend.


    (This car is the primary reason behind her ex status.)

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    Image of GDUB GDUB
    12/17/08

    @Ayyub: Yes i would have ditched her 2 if she chose the nose on wheels. Worse would have been the soft top i dont know what i would have done, prob run the other way.


    one of the ugliest cars in recent history.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/17/08

    @GDUB: The modern-day 'bitch bucket', with a convenient carry handle. Like an updated, but useless, Cabrio.


    At least the Eos is a decent replacement.

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