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Originally Posted by Jegan_V
The problem I have with that notion is, if the model's age indicates its failure rate then the Subaru Legacy(introduced in 2009) and Volvo S60(2010) should've also failed. They didn't, meaning both Subaru and Volvo were committed to crash safety to the degree that even given an unexpected test their designs held up. To me it seems the others have cut corners, if those automakers cared, then at the very minimum they should get the acceptable rating.
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Well that was kinda of my whole point. The FRS/BRZ was so well designed for safety that it did pretty well for a test it wasn't designed for. Also the larger cars faired better due to physics.