Good find. I thought this interesting:
Sacrificing Safety All the vehicles on our list had to have at least side-impact airbags or curtains, head restraints or electronic stability control, which aid in averting or preventing a crash from occurring.
Unfortunately, only two vehicles that made our list earned triple "good" ratings (front, side and rear impact) from the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety (IIHS), which conducts crash tests to measure safety: the Honda Civic and Nissan Versa.
"Small cars tend not to do as well in crash tests," says Russ Rader, IIHS spokesman. "If you are trying to save pennies at the pump, then there is a safety trade-off. Small cars are much safer than they were 10 years ago, but they cannot be as safe as bigger vehicles because of the laws of physics."
http://www.forbes.com/vehicles....html