So the cobalt got the title "MOST DANGEROUS CAR"

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2007 Chevrolet Cobalt four-door, without optional side airbags

Safety issues:

--"Poor" side-impact rating from Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

--Substantially worse-than-average frequency of injury claims filed

--"Safety concern" issued by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, based on Cobalt's performance in frontal side-impact testing.

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That's very interesting. Do you have a link to an article or anything?

I know the coupes do very well.

 

thats cant be good news for gm...

 

dont wreck and you aint got a problem

 

Why the **** was this posted twice??

 

well its easy not for the driver of the balt not to have a wreck, but what about the other retarded people on the road?

 

When they came out the 2 doors were bad and the 4 doors were safe. I looked up my 2006 before I bought it and it has 4 and 5 star ratings and its the SS S/C.

 

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums//showthread.php?t=37014

 

sorry its an aol exclusive article
http://autos.aol.com/article/general...31113609990002

 

yeah it got posted twice it waqs a server glitch

 

So are we certain its just the 4-door and not the coupes?

 

a server glich 6 minutes different

 

when i originally tried to post it it said " the server is busy"

 

Thats odd my insurance company said my rates dropped cause of how well it does in safty tests. Weird??

 

This article and those tests are BS. If you read the whole article it boils down to any 4-door that doesn't have side curtain airbags gets a poor score. There are a bunch of poor scores.

Toyota Corolla 4-door No side curtain airbags.
Mazda 3 4-door No side curtain airbags.
Saturn Ion 4-door No side curtain airbags.
Ford Focus 4-door No side curtain airbags.

So if you have a compact-midsized 4-door and you don't have side curtain airbags you get a bad score.

 

I personally don't see a problem here..

The car was designed to be an overall great car, relitively cheap and easy to maintain..

It's not a Volvo or a BMW so who cares...

 

From all the wrecks I've seen on here... the Cobalt seems to be pretty sturdy. Heck... mine took a 20MPH impact to the rear... just cosmetic damage.

 

these cars are unsafe....without side imapct air bags.

with the side impact air bags they always rated a 4 or 5.

when they do these tests they are testing the bare minimum to be called car. four wheels and a steering wheel.

no frills what so ever.

 

Well, glad I got a coupe.

And not wrecking helps.

 

These cars are really safe, this is coming from someone that totaled one already. Trust me, my balt saved my a$$.

 

Just get ones with the side air bags, is $400 really too much when they might save your life???

 

plus you get a discount on ins

 

Copied this from the other thread in GD:

Screw Forbes. Look at the NHTSA and IIHS crash ratings.

Coupe Crash Test Results
NHTSA Ratings
Passenger: Excellent
Driver: Good
Side Impact Front: Good
Side Impact Rear: Good
Rollover Rating: Good
NHTSA: Excellent, Good, Average, Poor, Very Poor, Not Tested

IIHS Ratings
Crash Offset: Good
Bumper Bash: Not Tested
IIHS: Good, Acceptable, Marginal, Poor, Not Tested

Sedan Crash Test Results
NHTSA Ratings
Passenger: Excellent
Driver: Good
Side Impact Front: Average
Side Impact Rear: Good
Rollover Rating: Good
NHTSA: Excellent, Good, Average, Poor, Very Poor, Not Tested

IIHS Ratings
Crash Offset: Good
Bumper Bash: Not Tested
IIHS: Good, Acceptable, Marginal, Poor, Not Tested

These are published over on Edmunds... Not sure if they were tested with or without side airbags.

 

others would say different that have been in an accident