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Originally Posted by aussiblue
Actuaries used to say that the stats suggested that your life expectancy was increased by 4years if you drove a large car but I think that has changed.
It is a complex issue; I recall in the 80's or 90's Road & Track reported that the accident statistics in the US suggested that the XJ Jaguar was the safest car when the number of road deaths and number of registered vehicle of each model was taken into account but, as some wag noted, perhaps what they didn't consider was that at that point the reliability of XJ Jags was so bad, that perhaps new Jags spent most of their time broken down or at the dealer being repaired rather than on the road. More importantly those driving XJ's were likely to be older drivers who were in any event statically less likely to be involved accidents or on the road at times (the night club DD hours ) where fatal accidents were more likely.
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Fair point......and that's why the monash test takes all those extra realities into the equation. Gender,age,location and so on.