Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:35:58 -0400 From: "kwbrewer" <kwbrewernopsams.com> Subject: Re: Saab Is Safest
for 3 years in a row the saab 9000 was voted the safest car in sweden using real world data..we all know what else is made in sweden.... Matthew DeBell <mdnopsamnet> wrote in message news:37163b46nopsam3.us.ibm.net... > Geoff wrote in message ... > >According to a friend who's job it is to know these things -- as of last > >year, there have been zero fatalities in Saab 9000's in the US. > > Your friend is wrong. For the 1991-1995 models during the calendar years > 1992-1996, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reports that there > were 5 driver deaths and 3 other (passenger?) deaths in Saab 9000s. This > very small sample gives the Saab 9000 an overall driver death rate is 40% of > average. For comparison, Volvo 850 is 32% of average, Lexus ES300 is 30% of > average, Nissan Maxima is 39, Cadillac Fleetwood is 32, Cadillac Seville is > 40, and no others I noticed were as good or better. > > For these data see http://www.hwysafety.org/crash/crashimg/ddrchart.pdf > > -- > Matthew DeBell mdnopsamnet > >