If you want to save lives, I think the best and most effective recall would be if it could be on a few million drivers rather than the same number of cars. 
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...... Toyota Matrix.
"General Motors has not yet provided a remedy plan or an owner notification schedule. "
Angeline
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...are feeling even happier with the "Cube" now. Very practical car, as is the Honda Element.
http://www.nissanusa.com/cube/
I was attracted to the Honda Element some years ago, but wife wouldn't have it. She ended up with a Chevy Impala that time instead. Oldest daughter inherited it after the Buick LeSabre came home.
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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety listed the safest cars. Their list was much smaller because they included a rollover one.
http://www.iihs.org/news/rss/pr111809.html (The entire listing is at the bottom of the article.)
Small cars
Honda Civic 4-door models (except Si) with optional electronic stability control
Kia Soul
Nissan Cube
Subaru Impreza except WRX
Volkswagen Golf 4-door
I felt good that the Cube made it, as well as the Soul I had seriously considered.
2 recalls. One to replace a nit that can be damaged by road salt that is part of the low tire warning, and a new back door (no passengers there) assembly which should be fine until I take it in for its first oil change.
Angeline
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when reading an article a while back about which cars are most likely to be caught speeding. All I can find now is this.
http://autos.aol.com/gallery/vehicle-traffic-ticket
While the Matrix is high on the list, and (as I'd expected) the Hummer is #1, the boxy Scion sold by Toyota holds a lot of the higher positions. I'd think of these as rather conservative vehicles with pipe smoking professors at the wheel but that must not be true.
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In past decades typically "envy cars" ended up with more tickets from officers than butt ugly or less sporty looking vehicles. I guess the Hummer would still qualify for "cop envy" tickets.
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their gas pedal has only two positions....On and Off. But I also see a lot of kids with some sort of high reving Hondas with large exhausts that make plenty of noise and can really fly. I am more surprised about the Mercedes sedans on the list as most I've seen tool along with traffic and have suited gentleman on cell phones behind the wheel.
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high reving Hondas with large exhausts that make plenty of noise and can really fly.
They are known as "Tuners"
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YET we still know underneath the hood, the engine is ****. That is what they call a "rice racer"
As shown in the video...NOW they are not slow, or pieces of junk.
you got your Tuners and they go "Drifting"
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These seem to be examples of what I've seen racing on the highways.
Tuner1
Tuner2
Not quite tuned
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