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Ak dad, I see that the article is from 09- do you know how the new '12 safety requirements for subcompacts effects their safety in comparison to larger vehicles now?
It does become much more difficult to say which is safer though when we start talking large differences in technology. For instance, is a Smart ForTwo safer than an '88 Suburban? That's pretty difficult to figure out, and I honestly don't have an opinion on that particular (admittedly and intentionally random) comparison.
If you want to be really distinctive you could look into a natural gas civic.
We didn't feel comfortable joining the "big car arms race" of buying larger and larger vehicles.
DH looked at one of those at the auto show and it costs about the same as a mid-range Prius liftback model, around $26K MSRP IIRC, quite a bit more $ than a standard Civic or Honda Fit. At a glance it looks just like a regular Civic sedan. While there actually is a public natural gas fueling station near us (there's a special natural gas pump at a regular gas station), it's one of just two we were told in the entire state, and the next closest one is in Chicago beyond the car's range for us according to the Honda rep, so I steered DH away from the natural gas Civic due to the scarcity of public fueling stations and associated range anxiety for longer road trips. The Honda rep indicated they mainly sell it as a commercial fleet vehicle to companies or municipal organizations with their own natural gas infrastructure for refueling rather than to private/personal owners with fewer to no public refueling options in place to date.
I'm enjoying this thread. We took this into consideration when we bought our newest car in 2007. We didn't make the decision lightly (former emergency response personnel in the house!) but decided to go with a mazda5 over a larger car. We didn't feel comfortable joining the "big car arms race" of buying larger and larger vehicles.
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