Believe it or not, the SAFEST car on the road is the 2000 PLUS Lexus GS 300/400 (both models offer the same safety features). I offer personal experience as my testimony. I was "T-Boned" (Hit on the front & rear passenger doors), by an Acura doing better than 45 MPH while making a left hand turn. I had my wife in the front passenger seat, my then 7 year old son sitting in the rear seat behind her, and my then 9 year old daughter sitting behind me. All of us had our seat belts on. My brand new car was TOTALED on December 31, 1999 at 12:05 PM!
My wife suffered a bump on her head from the impact of the Acura, she bumped into the window just before the airbag deployed. My son who was behind her had a small (approx 1-1 1/2 inch) scratch on his left cheek. It did not even require a band-aid. My daughter's back hurt for the rest of the day. We gave her a children's aspirin, and there was no more pain...... Ever. I have chronic pain in my left knee, and when we were hit, and of course my knee was shot into the door which caused even more pain than I usually experience, so I had to walk with my cane for a couple of weeks. However, my car looked like this ----> ( From what we were told, there were several safety features that saved our lives, that kept our car from exploding (I had filled my tank 30 mins before the accident). The steel plate that surrounds the gas tank, the THICK steel doors that are built to absorb the energy in the event of an accident, the way the airbags deployed...... And so many other things that we all take for granted when we bought the car.
Heck, I initially bought that car because it was cool looking, fast and handled like a race car but could be used for business. I bought the EXACT SAME car to replace the totaled vehicle because it was the safest car I could ever want (next to an up-armored Humvee), and I felt safe driving my children in it.
I will ONLY buy Lexus from now on. I've owned 4 in my life, two before the accident because I liked the way they handled, the value for the what you get for your money, and since the accident.... I've purchased two more for the same reasons PLUS the are the safest cars on the road today. I'm alive because of Lexus' Superior quality, engineering and safety first tradition.

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