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We hear all the time M-B innovations in safety and Volvo as the safest vehicles, Acura RL. What gives? Acura RL are great looking cars. If I had the pesos, I would consider. But I can't imagine Honda being "THE" safety leader. Discuss.....
About as absurd as JD Powers quality "statistics"....
I drive Merc CL63....IMO, safest car in world (along w/any AMG S/CL-Class)...
Think of safety in terms of active and passive...
Hard to test/quantify active safety....it's really which car allows one to avoid an accident (ideal scenario is prevention, right?)....esp on a busy, fast, wet, bumpy urban fwy.....so it's a combination of steering/brakes/chassis/stability ctrls/rollover risk, etc etc....
And passive safety is a complicated real-world analysis based upon type of collision....crumple zones, roof strength (in any rollover), seat structure/head restraints/seat belts/airbags, risk of fuel tank explosion in being rear-ended, etc etc....
IMO, many SUVs and large cars are among least safe cars...and Germans, esp MB, have natural advantage of many yrs of actual high-speed autobahn crashes from which to innovate/iterate their cars' active/passive safety engineering....
Safety is ultimately a common-sense bet based upon evaluating engineering thoroughness/innovation, as well as real-world dynamics of car....and one's own driving judgment/skills and ability to anticipate other drivers' errors (in my expce, many drivers of low-value cars/SUVs are among the most reckless/sloppy drivers)....
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