link to online article?

 

Car not dangerous....people dangerous. Then again if it was a freaking moped it wouldnt even have been mentioned -_-

 

I've seen that statistic before; it's all over the internet. There was another thread about it years ago.

 

It's 143 deaths per 1,000,000 miles driven. Basically in the cumulative 1,000,000 miles worth of Z's driven on the road, 143 deaths have come from it.

 

Ah you're right. That makes it sound really bad then! Less then 7,000 miles per death. I guess people were just rolling off the dealer lot straight into a post at +100 mph.

 

Man I'm scared to drive my z now Lolz. What kind of crash rating did our cars get?

 

No wonder why the cheapest quote for me (when I was 16) was $440 a month for liability.

 

Yea I do believe that we all know why our insurance is a bit steep. IMO I feel that a car like an SRT4 would be higher simply because just about every srt4 has a salvaged or rebuilt title, but I guess that accounts for accidents, not death.

 

Its all about the driver

http://www.leftlanenews.com/iihs-stu...-vehicles.html

They specifically mention the z and g35.

 

Well the RSX beat us. As usual.

 

You always need to look critically at the math in these ratings. Typically federal agencies look at the number of auto deaths countrywide and the number of cars registered. They divide one into the other and track the fatally rate year over year to see if it’s rising or falling. This is accurate on a national scale, but doesn’t help compare the fatally rate of a compact eastern state, where everything is twenty blocks away, to a large Midwestern state where everything is twenty miles away. So they came up with a death rate per million miles driven calculation. Now instead of an exact number, the miles driven are just a guesstimate. If you are comparing the number of miles driven in New York to the miles driven per annum in Los Angeles you can guess pretty accurately. However, it can be much more error-prone to guess at miles a certain model of car might cover each year.

When Mazda introduced the Miata they didn’t want it to get tagged with the high insurance rates other more notorious sports cars like Porsche, Corvette etc. They went to great pains to point out the small 114 HP engine and managed to have it lumped in with generic econobox rates. The Z did get lumped in the more exclusive high-powered sports cars. These cars, although dangerous are driven relatively few miles per year. The Z on the other hand, is the daily driver for most of its owners and is driven the national average of miles. I think this situation caused the Institute for Highway Safety to vastly underestimate the annual miles each Z covered, creating a distorted fatality rate per mile.

 

^ /thread lol