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Originally Posted by Steven Wrigley
Its more of convincing my mom to let me get a car.She doesnt want to sell the truck and for some reason she thinks it would be cheaper to keep the truck. Its no use convincing her either. She says if Im ever in a accident Ill be wishing I was in a 11 mpg truck. Which is probably right.
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The perception of improved safety in a truck is just that : perception.
The only thing your truck's got going for it is weight.
That's only going to help if you bump into something smaller than your truck.
If you really want to be safe, you shouldn't drive an early 90s truck for starters, but something freshly designed in this century - and post 2005 preferably.
When it comes down to passive and active safety, a new design (no mid-cycle remodeled versions) of whatever kind of vehicle is better than the previous one.
Fifth Gear (UK telly program) crashed a Volvo 940 - considered a tank in its days - against a more modern but smaller subcompact Renault Modus.
See for yourself what the results were
That's the generation gap.
The crash test for a 1997-2003 F150
And that's a generation after yours.