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2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
My professor was rear ended by a Nissan that was going aprox. 28-32 mph while she was stoped in traffic and her hb was totalled. The damage was more than what the car was worth even though it was only 4 yrs old so she got cash for it.
My husband owned a honda crx hb and we were t-boned by a car going 64-68 mph and the car was completely totalled. You could not even tell that it was once a honda civic crx...let alone a car. So my husband got 8,000 for it from his insurance.
My bro in law was rear ended in his crx by a man going 36 mph and the entire back end ended up in the front seat crushing my bro in law between the dash board, window and seat. He was injured pretty bad and his car was also totalled.
I was rear ended in a honda civic dx and the cars back end was completly totalled. Cost over 7,000 to repair.
Bottom line...honda does not make good solid cars. Yes they can pass the government crash test for 10-15 mph rear and side impacts but when you get up over 20 they fail misserably! They are cheaply put together. I mean you think it was made out of aluminum or something that easily bends and breaks. And you think they would make the back windows like the front to where they do not shatter but bend and give. The back windows in all the accidents were completely gone. The only window left was the front....pathetic.
Thats why insurance companies charge you more to own a civic of any type. One they are stollen a lot and two they suck in crashes. They need you to pay more to cover your butt for injuries and replacing the car or repairing the damage.
I myself just got rid of my honda civic dx. With no accidents on it it was already falling apart. It seems that nothing on that car was put together right and it was always in the shop for something. And with a baby on the way I needed a safer back seat. The back seat middle section is so small and narrow you have to put towels rolled up on the sides of the car seat so it doesnt rock side to side. Plus its rather hard to find a car seat that fits in that small space between the back seat and front seats.
So to me...no honda is worth my money again.
Your assumption that Hondas are no good in crashes because they are totalled afterwards is flawed. The reason they are totalled afterwards is precisely because they ARE good at protecting their occupants.
They save the occupants lives by crumpling at the front and rear (the engineers spend millions designing these 'crumple zones') which absorbs the energy of the impacting vehicle and converts it primarily to noise and heat. The idea is that the rest of the car can disintegrate (thus dissipating the crash energy) while the passenger cabin stays intact. The fact that your husband was T-boned at 68mph and is still alive is testimony to that fact.
Ever seen a race-car disintegrate when it crashes? It's by design.
By the way, there is probably no car that would not be totalled after being t-boned at 64-68 mph, especially one as tiny as a CRX! I doubt that even 1% of drivers would survive such a crash into the drivers side, but of that 1%, I think that most people would be writing that story and finishing with, "Honda saved our lives, I'm sticking by them." You should be thankful that you and your husband are still alive, and in good health.
A few years ago I was rearended by a 95-96 Camry while I was in my 94 Integra hatchback. The guy was probably going abou 30 MPH when he hit me but again I was OK. The car sustained $5,000 worth of damage.
A little before that while I had a 91 Integra a woman in a Buick Century wagon made a left hand turn in front of me and I clipped her passenger side rear end (she turned into a driveway with a gate closed and could not get completely in) while I was going about 40MPH ... again I wasn't hurt.
So before you say that Hondas aren't well built you should do your research first. Research would show that current Hondas get some of the highest safety ratings out there and my own experience backs this up. A Camry only gets 2 stars in side safety ratings does that mean that all Toyota's are poorly built?
And if Hondas were so bad why did you keep buying them? If you wanted another car because you had a strippo Civic then just say so. If you went out and got pregnant and the car wasn't big enough then just say that. But don't bring false propaganda in here when it's very easy to prove that it's false. If you are going to make stuff up at least make it something good.
I saw a Suburban that had been t-boned by another Suburban and the car seat in the back didn't look too good. That baby might or might not have lived. So that goes to show you that no car is going to protect you from bad driving. At any moment an Excursion could come up and t-bone your Corolla and then you probably won't even be able to see that there was a car there let alone recognize what kind of car it was.
"Consider the Honda Civic's rate of 47 deaths per million registered vehicle years, which is much lower than rates for many other small four-door cars. The Nissan Sentra's rate of 100 per million, for example, is much higher, as are rates for the Geo Prizm (125 per million), Dodge/Plymouth Neon (129), and Kia Sephia (148).
The upper confidence bound for the Civic's death rate is below the lower confidence bounds for the other four cars. This means the lower rate for the Civic isn't due to chance, and it seems likely that differences in the designs of the vehicles play a significant role in the differences between the Honda Civic and the other small cars."
Most important was that no one was seriously injured but I was also glad I didn't have to hassle with an insurance company who would try to give me peanuts for my new car. It all worked out in the end. Not that you asked for this long story .......
anonymousposts - shows how good _I_ am at reading dates. Still glad everything worked out.
Revka