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c12 economist suntribune january 13 1988 c usiness beat markham auto firm safe crash results of various cars by alex law do you know how sumo wrest ling works two enormous guys in a circle run at each other and the guy thats knocked out of that ring loses theres a brutal sim plicity about it that appeals to mil lions but for my purposes its bet ter to think about the size of the guys you may be the fleetest smar test mostmuscularand best- thke shelter you work hard you owe it to yourself to protect as much of your income as possible do you know that an rrsp is the best investment plan to attend an rrsp seminar on wed jan 20 1988 time 730 pm location ebenezer united church brimley steeles seating by reservation only balanced guy in markham but if youre running into a guy who weighs two or three times as much as you do youre the one thats going to be knocked out of the ring the point i want to make here is that as in sumo wrestling mass is important when you run into someone or something else like another car ql profit from our experience call 4490600 join our special celebration and earn on new gfc and rrsp accounts stouffville18 main street west 6402082 markham8 wellington street west 2344405 unionville105 main street 4771270 r hi wuamnm intuitively i ha ve always known that but now courtesy of saab- scania canada ltd whose in terest will be obvious as soon as you look at the numbers i have some numbers to back up that feeling some of which are printed below i will preamble those num bers further on but first some words about automobile safety because of technological im provements todays automobiles are safer than theyve ever been they handle and stop much better than they did 10 years ago so it should be easier to avoid an acci dent than it was then further manufacturing im provements and government reg ulations are adding safety fea tures to all cars so in case of an accident youve got a better chance recent examples of this include the third higher brakelight and airbags this is great if you happen to have the good fortune to get on a collision course with someone in an audi quattro whos been to a good advanced driving school unfortunately this is not always possible too often the vehicle coming your way is one of the remaining fullsized cars or a van or a loaded pickup or worst of all a mid70s behemoth this is worst because cars were pigs in those days and a dozen years and a 100000 miles havent improved them even worse is that they are usually in their fourth owners hands and those hands have all too often just held a bottle of beer these are the cars that belong to young men with something to prove and nothing to learn and statistics bear out how often they are in accidents so be careful when you sec a car being driven by a guy whos not much older that it is the accompanying figures have their limitations and idiosyncracies and theyre not in any way trying to tell you your chances of being hurt or how much its going to cost but it is instructive because all the cars have been gauged using the same methods even though the numbers were crunched from the accident re ports of 198486 cars they are still valid since most of the cars are essentially the same now as they were then theyre also reliable as used car stats considering the numbers com paratively is most useful before the fine print ill make the most obvious point in case youre not up to reading on a new large car like the crown victoria or the caprice is probably the safest vehicle you can be in okay time for the credits the numbers have been put together by the highway loss data insti tute hldi which is a nonprofit public service organization hdli gathers processes and pub lishes data on the ways in which insurance losses vary among different kinds of vehicles the results are grouped accord ing to four body styles station wagons and passenger vans four- door models twodoor models and sports and speciality models these are further broken down by size small vehicles on wheel- bases less than or equal to 99 in ches midsize greater than 99 but less than or equal to 109 and larger greater that 109 injury losses are presented in terms of the frequency of insur ance claims filed under personal injury protection pip cover age the overall result for a particular car is the frequency of all medical claims filed under pip coverage regardless of the size of the losses the severe injury loss result represents the frequency of claims for paid medical losses exceeding 500 all losses are stated in relative terms with 100 representing the average figure so the lower the number the better the cars injury record and it follows the better a passengers chances of not get ting hurt not all the cars available in markham are listed and some of them do not have severe fi- you deserve the best possible value when you spend your auto and home insurance dollars m we believe it and so does kemper call us today find out how you can save money on your auto and home insurance once you compare kemper you ii ride with us the insurers 7812 kennedy road unionville ont jfott 4775000 gures because not enough data was available having said all that here are the results overall severe twodoor models injury injury saab 900 70 64 honda prelude 97 90 volkswagen golf 102 maxda 626 103 100 honda civic 104 102 toyota celiea 109 chrysler laser 115 105 toyota tercel 117 118 ford escort 125 119 oldsmobile cutlass ciera 80 74 pontiac 6000 85 pontiac grand prix 87 93 chrysler lebaron 91 95 honda accord 93 buick century 94 ford thunderbird 102 104 dodge 600 108 mercury cougar 111 122 oldsmobile calais 116 123 plymouth reliant 117 113 pontiac grand am 117 115 ford tempo 123 125 pontiac sunbird 124 114 mercury grand marquis 55 oldsmobile ninetyeight 70 sports and specialty models overall severe injury injury porsche 944 coupe 62 chevrolet corvette 80 96 maxda rx7 84 nissan 300zx 104 113 pontiac fiero 116 117 honda civic crx 121 121 bmw 500 series 65 lincoln continental 80 84 audi 5000 80 87 volvo 740760 87 92 ford mustang conv 96 toyota cclica supra 102 104 chevrolet camaro 125 128 j jaguar xj6 57 bmw 733735i 67 cadillac deville 2dr 68 72 station wagons overall severe passenger vans injury injury toyota van 75 77 nissan stanza 93 nissan scntra 104 105 volvo 240 58 55 ford ltd 80 80 pontiac parisicnnc 52 buick electra 54 plymouth voyager 63 53 ford aerostar 65 chevrolet astro van 68 72 overall severe fourdoor models injury injury saab 900 66 59 mazda 626 98 89 volkswagen jetta 102 103 honda civic 112 111 ford taurus 73 oldsmobile cutlass 76 77 toyota camry 80 73 pontiac bonneville 81 77 toyota crcssida 81 88 honda accord 87 79 chrysler new yorker 82 88 cadillac cimarron 93 98 audi 4000 95 91 mercury topaz 107 98 pontiac sunbird 121 103 advertising correction inadvertently the following error appeared in the brass warehouse ad in the markham economist sun weekender on sat jan 988 italian continental brass bed priced at 59900 should have been priced at 79900 the markham economist sun re grets any inconvenience this error has caused the brass warehouse or its customers