I've been spending alot of time researching minivans on the forums and on the net. Is it me, or does noone ever watch TV anymore or read magazines?
I've seen tons of programs on cable (cable and regular channels) like Dateline, discovery, MSNBC, and read a couple articles down the line, and ALL of them dispelled any of the crash tests as being accurate. Two programs come to mind as they were pretty long, where they took actual death and injury statistics and compared them to crash tests, and they found that like 50% of the time the cars that faired worse in the crash tests actually had low fatality and injury rates. They even did their own tests with real cars, vans, etc and got totally different results.
I think it's great to research the expected performance of your car in a crash, but I think that most people are putting way too much faith in the results.
I've seen tons of programs on cable (cable and regular channels) like Dateline, discovery, MSNBC, and read a couple articles down the line, and ALL of them dispelled any of the crash tests as being accurate. Two programs come to mind as they were pretty long, where they took actual death and injury statistics and compared them to crash tests, and they found that like 50% of the time the cars that faired worse in the crash tests actually had low fatality and injury rates. They even did their own tests with real cars, vans, etc and got totally different results.
I think it's great to research the expected performance of your car in a crash, but I think that most people are putting way too much faith in the results.