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Old July 24th 07, 02:33 AM posted to alt.autos.toyota,alt.autos.toyota.trucks,rec.autos.makers.honda,alt.autos.honda,sci.energy
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Default MIKE Hunter's smal car v large car thesis is correct

In article <yQXhi.1919$bO2.289@trnddc05>, "Go Mavz" >
wrote:

> You can sit in a warehouse all day and slam stuff into cars and come up with
> the obvious that the smaller car is going to get more abuse. Any moron could
> tell you that. However, how do SUV's play into it?
>
> A smaller car, hitting another smaller car is going to do less damage than a
> smaller car being hit by an SUV...


And if two large SUVs, which have typically less crush zone than a mid
sized car, hit one another the occupants in both large SUVs are usually
seriously injured.
The ultimate dumbness in this "drive very large for safety" argument is
the person driving a large SUV to defend themselves from a semi.
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