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Originally Posted by War_Wagon
And physics tells me that a 3900 pound DB9 moving at those speeds has to expel all of that impact energy somewhere. My 1800 pound plastic Insight won't soak that up.
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I'm sorry, but physics doesn't tell you that. In a simple rear-end crash, if you're hit from behind in a lightweight vehicle, it's going to take off like a ping-pong ball. You may have a serious case of whiplash, but that's about it.
As for having lots of steel around you making you safer, try a simple experiment. Take one of those small home safes. Lots of steel, right? Whack it with a sledgehammer, you probably won't even dent it. Must be safe, right? Now put an egg inside, drop it a foot or two (lots less force than the sledgehammer attack), open it up, and see what happened to the egg.
As for the idiots who give their kids cars like that, without proper training... Well, I don't know Canadian law, but I would bet that in the US you could hit them for really massive liability, if not criminal charges.