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How much do you want to bet that a sedan or wagon or anything other than a truck/SUV would not have rolled in that crash.
Yeah, but then the car makers profit margin would be 99% instead of 100%. Gotta sell us deregulated stuff so they can make big bucks
Car companies publish their profits, and they're well under 20%
edit: The official SEC fllings are a little dense for me, but Ford's investor slides for 2026 Q1 show an 8.1% EBIT margin. That includes all corporate overhead as well though. If you're talking vehicle manufacture price vs sell price, that will be higher
The sedan would've folded like a paper. The wagon would've liquefied the passengers inside. I hate cars and specially SUVs and trucks. But rolling to keep the passengers alive is not the problem with them. If passengers had a seatbelt on, they walked out of that tumble. It dispersed energy in a non deformable way. Sedans can be as survivable in the same scenario but the passengers would've been trapped inside a bubble of corrugated metal. Wagons are harder to survive. They are either too soft and crush the passengers, or are too stiff and transfer all the kinetic energy. Both kill the passengers.
Fuck cars in general though. Trains rarely get t boned.
From ConsumerReports in 2014
Yes tech and safety systems have improved in 12 years, and in this case the suv's passengers might have been fine, but I suspect rollover survival stats are still worse. That's not even taking into account how rolling vehicles travel farther while rolling, putting other people at risk.
That being said we're only talking about rollovers here. Head-on collisions are a totally different story when you pit an SUV versus a regular sedan. But those results are more related to the differences in front crash zone height. And that's only happening because car companies were allowed to categorize SUVs as "non-passenger work vehicles", avoiding safety and emissions regulations. Here's a great video taking about it from Climate Town