IIHS rates the safest cars of 2012

There have been some small arc fires with the contents of the Volt Battery leaking 3-4 days after the collisionGM have reinforced the steel around the battery so this won't happen again. So give up the bitching and exaggeration.The Volt is a great car and a much better idea than the Leaf. It's giving GM a lot of feedback and experience in the electric field.
Some people just like to bitch about American acxhievements and beleive that foreigners do everything better. Did you read about all the Japanese suppliers going to jail and paying millions of dollars for price fixing?

A lot of the mileage difference in the epa estimates and real time numbers is the driver. Same car two drivers may get up to 5 mpg difference. unless there has been changes the epa tests were done with the AC not running. how realistic is this? In Texas the AC runs in the winter a lot not just the summer.

The safety features in cars today are so plentiful that you don't have to pay much attention to which is the safest. Even the lowest scoring car sold in the U.S. is a "safe" car. Seat belts, collapsible steering columns, and crumple zones were the most cost effective safety features. Air bags don't earn their keep, and cost U.S. consumers several million dollars for every life they save. ABS is mostly for people who don't know how to drive.
__ What we should be paying attention to is the drivers. I don't have a problem with cell phones per se-- the real problem is that people seem to have lost ground in attention-management skills over the past few decades. Probably, it's a combination of progressive education and too much passive, attention-GRABBING entertainment.

"battery fires after Volt crash tests"
And it's on the safest list? As much as some people may enjoy being in a car crash and catching fire immediately afterward- perhaps this one should have been an obvious red flag.

I ride a bycicle . Sometimes , my old van . I baught it used, $ 300.00 dollars, 3 years ago.

The economic externalities of speed (major cause of serious vehicular accidents) and poisonous emissions (from fossil fuel) into the atmosphere must be factored into the true costs of owning a motor vehicle.

None of these have chrome and steel bumpers like my 1964 Impala.

Hey... My Impala is safer than any of these hunks of crap.

Depends 0n what you hit...& how you hit it!

The safest vehicles are the ones not being driven by people that are on their cell phones while driving, cutting others off, make left turns from the right lane, or not using the designated turn lane, don't use their turn signals, think they are the only ones out on the road and therefore the only ones that count.

Want safer roads? Put away the phone, take your hand out of her panties, and pay attention to the traffic.

I prefer sharing the roads with safe drivers than safe cars.
Safest cars by no mean safe if driven by unsafe drivers.

The safest car, thats like sayin the safest chainsaw, It is all up to the operator

I'm gonna buy a SAFE CAR. Then I can drink/text/call/have sex/eat/fumble with the CD/XM radio/watch a DVD/put on makeup/eat/have sex/call/text/drink AND I won't have to worry about getting bashed-up or killed in a car wreck because ... I BOUGHT A SAFE CAR!!! By the way, from the video, whatever happened to the band CRASH-TEST DUMMIES???

no matter how high your car has been rated it will never give you full protection, the most important thing is to be careful when driving.

Safety to the average American driver is a cup holder and a place to plug your cell phone.

why is the GMC acadia, chevy taverse, and buick enclave on this list as 3 cars? they are the same exact car with a different badge!!!

Remember Pearl Harbor!!!! Buy American.

Buy American our future depends on it.

The vehicles I see most often in the ditch during snowstorms are the largest SUVs.