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Originally Posted by BavarianFanatic
Uh, no. He was damn lucky. NOT a testament that they're built well. The damn car is in two pieces. Another foot forward and they'd be hosing him off of that tree.
Yes, European cars are built well when compared to others. Tgey have more stringent crash standards. But no matter how well built, contact with a stationary object will always decimate a car. Survival in most cases is pure luck.
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I would argue that IIHS and NHTSA have stricter safety regulations. The IIHS is funded by insurance companies, which in modern market driven economies is more efficient in imposing change than governing bodies like the EU that like to b*tch amongst themselves. There's obvious reasons why insurance companies want safer vehicles. It's interesting how NA spec cars tend to be heavier than EU, roughly 200 lbs for the F30 as an example. I do know that EU has more strict emissions requirements baked into taxes.
This new proposed NA/EU free trade act will probably streamline this, especially given that many OEM's (and the larger auto-groups) have been forced to develop global platforms.