Smart Fortwo sales plunge in 2009 in U.S.

[rmay635703]

Originally Posted by Frank Lee

I was going to resist commenting on yet another inane "safety" thread... but I can't help it. When pussies go out on the road, is it in order to go somewhere, or is it to crash into something? Seriously, think of the odds.

Thats why I still drive a motorcycle, a comutacar and a subaru 360, safety.

[Christ]

I consider motorcycles (when operated responsibly) safer than cars for collision odds. Why? It's less than 1/4 the width of the average car... which means you have 75% better chance of avoiding what would have been an offset frontal impact in a car.

I actually say this about any smaller vehicle. It's smaller, which makes it harder to hit, so in the scheme of things, the idea of crash safety being half of a larger vehicle is negated by the odds of being hit also being half.

Before anyone comments on it, I already know that this is called fuzzy logic, and it's a twisted way to look at it. I don't really care, though, because in some way, it does actually make sense.

[Arragonis]

The ForTwo sales have been dropping for a while here in Europe. Safety doesn't seem to be an issue for most people but stability can be. I did see one on the wet, cobbled streets of Edinburgh manage to plow straight on and took out a parked Audi when they first came out.

I had one of these for a while :

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ewoo_Matiz.jpg

which also had extremely skinny tyres and it felt unsafe on those cobbled streets. Mind you it also had a body made of such thin metal that a dent remover working on the bonnet (hood) just used his fingers, no tools!