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I found this pretty shocking.


A group of midsized, moderately-priced family cars outperformed their more expensive, luxury-car counterparts in a new round of safety testing.
Crash tests carried out by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety measured how 29 different makes and models of vehicle performed when put through small overlap frontal crash tests, which is a common type of accident, but one rarely simulated in crash tests.
Of the 18 midsize family cars tested, 13 earned good or acceptable scores. By contrast, just three of the 11 midsize luxury cars earned the same ratings.....
 
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