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blazer most fragile SUV ever...

Do what you want bud, are you trolling?

Appears to me that it was an offset frontal impact at very high speeds between two tons of new crumple zone and airbag tech, vs. a 25 year old 'no tech' Suburban.

Sorry, buying 'brand X, model B in such and such year range isn't a recipe for being able to survive any and all wrecks you might get into. They don't come with a cloak on invincibility.
 
Reading the story, I just see another possible drunk driver that hit a truck and killed it's occupant. The drunk almost always lives.........and the guy who saw it coming pays with his life. He could have been driving a 2015 Freightliner with the same results, just how it seems to work out.
 
Terrible accident and loss of life. By looking at the rust behind the rear tire I have to wonder how rusty the floor pans, body mounts and frame were to cause the body to separate from the frame and the frame to fold.
 
Want me to tell ya bout my very good friend. Frontal collision with a spud truck. Spud truck doing 40 her doing 55. Walked away.

Go away troll
 
No vehicle can overcome the laws of physics. In a head-on collision at 55, it's equivalent to hitting a stationary object at 110. Judging by the carnage, some pretty high speeds were involved. The one driver could just as easily have died.
 
"Blazer most fragile SUV ever" is your title when there's no Blazer in the article and no source of comparison to any other SUV? That driver would have done better if he was in a Tracker?
 
With proper restraint system and a roll cage, I could have survived that with a horse and buggy. The horse, well his family probably would have prosecuted the drunk driver.
 
I agree this is a pretty stupid title, aimed at getting a rise out of obviously pro-blazer folks. Too bad it's simply not true. ANY 2 vehicles involved in a high speed head-on like that could results in ANY number of possible outcomes. You cant make a general assumption about a vehicle based on one incident.
 
The Suburban looks a lot like mine!.....:yikes:..same colors,right down to the pin stripe..

I may be a sitting duck in my old square bodies--but I still feel safer driving them than I do in a brand new 2014 Sentra my sister bought,despite it probably being 100% safer due to the air bags,etc...ditto for all the other smaller,newer cars I have owned or driven...
 
is Jean's middle name Wazzabie? :whistle: :haha:


first don't call a K5 an SUV, that's ghey...

I don't think this person is trying to get a rise, trolling, etc... it's a new car kinda person that was looking for a replacement for a modern SUV probably...

than comparing those 2 accidents? :rolleyes: paaalease, how stoopid is that? 2 totally different CHAOTIC situations... uncomparable...

looking at crash results/testing/random accident photos when buying an old K5 is moronic, that's not why you'd buy one of these vehicles.. just buy a Volvo wagon and be done with it...
 
ryoken said:
looking at crash results/testing/random accident photos when buying an old K5 is moronic, that's not why you'd buy one of these vehicles.. just buy a Volvo wagon and be done with it...
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When my brother was selling a lifted 79 F-350 on 44" ground Hawgs, the number 1 question was "what gas mileage does it get?" :screwy:
 
looking at crash results/testing/random accident photos when buying an old K5 is moronic, that's not why you'd buy one of these vehicles.. just buy a Volvo wagon and be done with it...[/quote]

I had a friend who owned a towing business years ago. He used to joke the #1 reason Volvo's were so safe is because they were the #1 vehicle towed. He claimed that to be fact determined by surveys of the towing industry. He said you can't get hurt in a car you can't drive because it's always in the shop.:D
 
Well considering that when I was looking at a used car last time I really wanted a Volvo of some sort and in my research most often found their transmission compared to a wine glass I passed
 
it was more a play on the Travolta line from Broken Arrow about buying 5% of Volvo and living comfortably knowing you help build some of the safest cars in the world bit...
 
Well . . .

GWeakland620 said:
With proper restraint system and a roll cage, I could have survived that with a horse and buggy. The horse, well his family probably would have prosecuted the drunk driver.
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Oh, I thought you meant the horse was drunk ;) Damn drinking and riding again.
 
I think in a head on situation that Impala would have driven "under" many of the vehicles as owned on this site.
 
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