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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Small Cars - To Buy or Not to Buy

The small cars are common in Europe for the reason that you can park them almost everywhere and this is somewhat that I would glad to see further of in the United States.

According to a crash examination, when you drive a small car, you are not well protected compare to large vehicles. It true, that looks fairly clear and shouldn’t be a big conversation not including that a different study by the Energy Security Leadership Council insists Congress to raise Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) permissions, in short, means adding up small cars, and asserts that this would have no safety and protection impact.

Americans are purchasing more small cars to prevent the fuels high cost, and that might bring them to accident or even result of life death. As a group, holders of small cars are more likely to die in car accident than compare to the big one, heavier cars are better, according to government’s data, the insurance company and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

Most of the people are finding for ways to cut fuel costs, and they need to be familiar that if they make a decision to acquire a much smaller car, they are placing themselves with their family’s risk, says Adrian Lund, head of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. IIHS, shore up by auto Insurance Corporation, tracks traffic deaths intimately.

So, what the best way? Buckle up.

Here are top ten list of small car that you can live with. (Source: car.about.com)

Audi A3
Chevrolet Cobalt
Dodge Caliber
Honda Civic Si
Honda Fit
Mazda 5
Nissan Versa
Pontiac G5
Suzuki SX4
Toyota Yaris


posted by AutoGeek at 9:02 PM

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