Category: micro car

RECENT TESTS find microcars have HIGH REPAIR COSTS for low-speed collisions • SERIOUS INJURIES can also occur •

Recently, The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reported, “the cost for repairing damage to microcars in low-speed crashes of 3 to 6 miles per hour could cost anywhere from $474 to $3,701.” Institute senior vice president Joe Nolan said bumpers should protect cars so that damages from such collisions “should cost less than the typical…

Small Cars Are Dangerous Cars – Fuel economy zealots can kill you!

DANGER – Safety vs. car weight issue seen as largely ignored. In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal (4/17), Sam Kazman, general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, writes, “The super-high efficiency minicar has become the Holy Grail for many environmentalists,” but an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) study found that minis offer…