So the 4 star ANCAP rating on the Sonata he just bought is inferior to the 4 star rating on your Evo 8?
HAHAHAHAHAHA.
Had this discussion with a few people on here. The debate from most of them is the safety rating, insurance studies on them etc.
My statement comes from my time in engineering working with the parts that go into them and being in the CFS as a road crash specialist.
I find a lot of the safety ratings irrelivent because it depends to the conditions the vehicle is in at the time.
I mostly see those 2 vehicles after some chick or her bf has rolled it in the hills coming around a bend, most common one is rainy night, comes around a bend with a yellow 55 sign in an 80 zone and goes through doing anywhere from 60-90km, fish tails and hits the side or rolls.
Take into account its a small car, the airbags help, but take into account what it is and the crumple zones.
Seen more people walk away from rolling a 1985-2005 model commodore/falcon/toyota in the exact same circumstances then walking away from any hyundai, daewoo or kia.
Your ancap safety rating is all good and well if your going to drive straight into a wall or have another car hit you.
A few things that could improve these cars which probably wont happen for a long time yet :
+Tyre pressure sensors.... yes i know its a massive ask most cars dont even have these yet...... but the amount of crashes i've been too where some guys mrs didnt knew how to pump up tyres but had never checked them and it was hte straw that broke the camels back.
+ABS i seriously find it hard to believe some cars dont have this, its 2012.... and you still can find cars without ABS. WHY. WHY. WHY. it should be standard.
+Better quality of metal body design...... one particular bend in the hills I had some idiot kid roll a VT exec smash his passenger window and get out before we got there...... had 2 girls one roll a Holden cruze (which fair better) and another who rolled a Hyundai Excel...... The commodore apart from a scratched up body would have still been good, the windshields didnt even crack. Both the cruze and Excel's roofs were crushed in..... both screens broke and the hyundai also started pissing fuel everywhere.... i didnt hear the reason why it did that though but I dont believe that was design maybe another issue.
+Again on the metal..... using a standard cutting disc can get through any body part on a comodore or ford in 10-20 seconds....... daewoo lanos it eats through it.