Friends,
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has released their latest report on the crashworthiness of “compact SUVs” which groups the little Hyundai with the Ford Escape tall-ish micro station wagons with wee body on frame trucklets, which includes the only one extant—the Jeep Wrangler. Guess who did poorly?
C’mon, guess.
Yeah. I own one of those wee little trucklets and this report says that I’m going to die a horrible death in their new and redesigned crash tests. This is yet one more data point telling me that driving around is dangerous. Commuting 101 miles a day is crazy, right? I’m surely exposing myself to far too much risk every weekday.
But wait, there’s another big problem with a lot of driving that the insurance industry group fails to mention…
Stick with it until the end.
I’m smart! Not like everybody says, like dumb. I’m smart and I want respect!
– bob