Thread: Small Runabout Car

Originally Posted by mopheadrob

I’ve got to question those who use the safety argument for a SUV or ute as a daily driver. Way more likely to crash in the first place due to high centre of gravity and longer stopping distance, and most modern ones have so much pickup they make you forget you’re driving a 2 ton tank. Sure, your wife & kids might come out okay, but pity the poor bastard in the Yaris that they just flattened. Good on you for leaving it in the garage until you’re going to use it as intended.

Yes and no i get what your trying to say but the only thing you can say is what would you rather have a crash in a late model hilux or a smaller older cheaper run about - noone logical is ever going to say the cheaper car because of what/who you might crash into, you want the safest option for yourself and wifey and kids and dog all day every day but there are some safer cheaper cars about versus 1992 1100kg corollas

Originally Posted by Carbine

Yes and no i get what your trying to say but the only thing you can say is what would you rather have a crash in a late model hilux or a smaller older cheaper run about - noone logical is ever going to say the cheaper car because of what/who you might crash into, you want the safest option for yourself and wifey and kids and dog all day every day but there are some safer cheaper cars about versus 1992 1100kg corollas

That is the part I admittedly forgot to mention while waxing lyrical in my previous post, in the older Corolla you might as well be driving an open chassis or riding a motorbike albeit with less propensity for tipping over.