A safe vehicle or better gas mileage??? I got my answer yesterday

[VickiK]

I do love the Sean Bean Boromir memes.

 

[PTskier]

Fatality rates by make & model up to 2014:
http://www.iihs.org/externaldata/srdata/docs/sr5203.pdf

 

[surfsnowgirl]

Well then, I shall consider myself lucky to be alive since my totaled Nissan Sentra is on the list for highest rate for driver deaths.

 

[Shifterkart]

Fatality rates by make & model up to 2014:
http://www.iihs.org/externaldata/srdata/docs/sr5203.pdf

Hmmm, I don't see Landrover anywhere in the list?

 

[François Pugh]

Fatality rates by make & model up to 2014:
http://www.iihs.org/externaldata/srdata/docs/sr5203.pdf

These lists always make me think, "How much of that is the vehicle, and how much of that is the driver?"
It's obvious that mass plays a role in multi-vehicle collisions, centre of gravity height plays a role in roll-overs, expensive vehicles have more safety features. Less obvious, unless you happen to notice: who is the typical cheap Import driver and how terrible they drive, who is the typical inexpensive Chrysler customer, and that they are older than dirt, etc.