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Re:For the first time in Europe, registrations for EVs overt... by saiya-jin on Thursday November 26, 2020 @10:28AM (#25220788)
That's a bit false feeling you are buying - 2.4 tonne SUV vs 2.1-tonne big wagon if we compare within the same brand and similar sizes (BMW X7 vs 5 series). That's insignificant difference in head-on crash. Crumple zones are +-same so again not a win. If your argument is tiny car vs the biggest then its not about SUV anymore.

SUV has much higher rolling danger in case of crash so better stretch your necks before driving...

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Re:For the first time in Europe, registrations for EVs overt... by eganist on Thursday November 26, 2020 @10:35AM (#25220847)
> That's a bit false feeling you are buying - 2.4 tonne SUV vs 2.1-tonne big wagon if we compare within the same brand and similar sizes (BMW X7 vs 5 series). That's insignificant difference in head-on crash. Crumple zones are +-same so again not a win. If your argument is tiny car vs the biggest then its not about SUV anymore.

It's weird that I'm here defending SUVs when my favorite car to drive is a low-riding, low-mass dart of a sports car that's far more likely to kill me than the party on the other side, but here I am.

You've constrained the conditions of a crash to:

- One specific make and model of car

- One specific make and model of SUV

- One specific type of crash (head-on, which are exceptionally rare. https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...)

This feels like a strawman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man)

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