Not very safe NEW minivans

if you drive on motorways your more likely to be rear ended than front on.

they mentioned chrysler town n country and dodge grand caravan.now thats scary.on account it's a dodge grand caravan we were in at the time of our wreck..and from what he said in the video..it looks like i could of lost my left leg in that wreck.and all because of poor design

bigpaul said:

if you drive on motorways your more likely to be rear ended than front on.

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we were on a highway when the wreck took place.and it was a head on wreck.both left front corners of both vehicles is what hit..but yet,there is a lot of truth to what you say though..

Glad your OK Jim, But this is worse for us as US car safety standards are lower in the US than in the EU and they have been trying to cover up this fact to help get the TTIP deal signed.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...t-revealing-us-car-safety-flaws-10514716.html

volkswagen did a emissions cover up ..just so they'll pass inspections..and that includes calli inspections as well.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...ny-tests-cars-new-report-sends-bmw-shares-dow

We were renting a Town N Country van last year when driving back from Atlanta. In the middle of the night, it was raining, and there was a black SUV on it's side in the middle of the road, fully in the center lane, and half in the other two lanes. Luckily, I saw it at the very last second, and swerved, somehow missing both it, and all the other debris on the road. Still have no idea how I did that....but REALLY glad we didn't actually hit it, after seeing this especially. We all would have been dead, no doubt (as we were going about 60 mph at the time).

im now wondering about the kia rondo we have now.

jimLE said:

im now wondering about the kia rondo we have now.

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The Rondo is called the Caron over here and its got quite a good Euro N Cap rating of 4 out of 5 for the pre 2009 models
http://www.euroncap.com/en/results/kia/carens/15726

But top marks for the 2013 onwards models

http://www.euroncap.com/en/ratings-...s=false&selectedDriverAssistanceTechnologies=

I'm personally in a solid steel Ford pickup truck. I'd be cleaning other cars out of my bumpers.

Northern Raider said:

http://blog.caranddriver.com/iihs-2...te-results-between-crew-cab-and-extended-cab/

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Been wanting an F-250 for years!

bigpaul said:

if you drive on motorways your more likely to be rear ended than front on.

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LOL, so walk me through this logic bigpaul. A rear end collision involved two cars. The car that hits you is "hit" in the front. So if the only type of collision was rear enders, exactly 50% of the cars would collide in the front, and 50% in the rear. But not all collisions are rear enders, some are head on. In that case 100% of the collisions are in the front and 0% are in the rear. There are also single car collisions with bridge abuttments, telephone poles, and trees. Nearly 100% of these are front collisions.

That makes your statement statistically impossible.

I feel much safer driving my older F250 4x4 with a 460 V8. It's a 97 model so the front bumper is up high where it belongs. This truck was made before the government forced the manufacturers to lower the front bumpers in order to match up with the bumpers on the cheap modern throw-away cars.