DigmacDoes the GT86 12' have any relation to the Trueno AE86? I wonder if the 86 in the name means its related to the drift king AE86 Truenoi really need an answer!
Does the GT86 12' have any relation to the Trueno AE86? I wonder if the 86 in the name means its related to the drift king AE86 Trueno
Genesis Coupe weighs way too much ... 3300 lbs for the 2.0T, 3400 lbs for the 3.8 ... The BRZ/GT86 weighs 2600 lbs ...
I don't think either of those cars could be considered a death trap and all of my cars have had 5-star crash test ratings except my first car, which was a death trap (Suzuki Forsa Turbo), but that weighed 1400 lbs.You can thank safety regulations for that.
But would you rather have a slightly heavy safe car, or a light death trap?
But would you rather have a slightly heavy safe car, or a light death trap?
I'm well aware of how the IIHS rates their crash ratings (and I'm an engineering student; I understand basic physicsMy own choices have tended towards the latter, but I'm crazy.
One thing to bear in mind about "5-star" ratings is that those ratings are only valid for comparing cars within a given weight class. A "5-Star" rated 4,000-pound sedan will be significantly safer than a "5-Star" rated 2,000-pound hatchback. The IIHS says this explicitly when explaining their ratings.
They even have a video where they test this by crashing small cars into larger cars with the same safety rating. The larger cars win, significantly, even though both the large and small vehicles have the "same" safety rating.
). Here's the thing: When am I going to crash into a 4000 lbs car? All the highways I drive on have center barriers (and about 10 feet between traffic, too), all the cities I drive in are bumper-to-bumper traffic and have center barriers, most of the side roads have round-abouts (little-to-no risk of getting T-boned), and all of the rural roads I drive on rarely ever have vehicles at all, let alone large vehicles (not to mention they have lots of room on both sides to avoid a collision).
