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Korean shitboxes and American cars...go figure.
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A lot of these are common rental cars.
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Having driven many of these as rental cars, and some of them being just absolutely dreadful experiences I jump to my own preposterous conclusions. If you drive that Dodge Avenger or Nissan Versa you will want to jump off a bridge instead of getting back into either car. I can't imagine the kind of person that test drives one and says "Yeah, I gotta get me one of these with my hard earned money." So my half baked theory is that the ilk that pilot these things are so devoid of intelligence that a fatal accident is a certainty, or they have lost all hope from driving these rolling crap piles that they willingly try to ram them into concrete abutments to put an end to their suffering.

I challenge any of you to drive one of those Dodge Avengers and tell me you did not have suicidal thoughts.

I kind of welcome the idea of Chinese made cars because it will thin out the stupid people a little.

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Safety costs money and upscale Euro brands are more serious about a higher minimum spec in that concern.
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If you have more cars on the road then you're going to drive up your average deaths no matter what.
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Originally Posted by Chibo
If you have more cars on the road then you're going to drive up your average deaths no matter what.
The data has been normalized for quantity of registered cars, so number of cars on the road doesn't matter.
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my coworkers gf has a dodge avenger and man is it a POS. if you ever decide to floor it, it like keeps revving up for like 3 seconds even after you take your foot off the pedal.
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My dad has a new impala and its really nice. I'm surprised it made the list. Mustangs make sense because of the crazy driving involved with such an affordable powerful car.
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Originally Posted by vader1
I kind of welcome the idea of Chinese made cars because it will thin out the stupid people a little.
F'n LOL


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