bmw and benz loosing to kia? what a shame

That is a shame BMW lost out on the 5 like that.

Volvo’s have always had a reputation of being safe cars. Good on Kia and Acura too… shame on MB and BMW.

damn, i was just gonna post this

Crash-test ratings are good phantoms.

I’m not sure there are many crtashes in which you’re OK because of a ***** where you’d have been dead had you a ***.

It comes down to the difference between beaing dead and wishing you were.

give me a 454 so I can power my way out of danger

This is why I keep driving my Grand Marquis with a full perimeter STEEL frame.

Unibody is junk and should be banned.

Anyone know the actual scores? It would be interesting to see if the redesigned 5 scored higher or lower than the old 5. Either way BMW needs to take notice & make major changes, fast. Acceptable should not be acceptable for any carmaker.

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Where are the BMW fanbois today? All dead on the road? LMAO.

Keep OVERPAYING for INFERIOR GERMAN ENGINEERING, idiots!

now im scared to drive my 5, a good interior dont mean **** to a dead person.

Great you can zip around town in your superior sport sedan (BMW lovers) but God forbid you get into an accident…you’re ****ed. RicardoHead could not have put it better. Keep overpaying for inferior german engineering.

I don’t like the 5 series. This should be one of several things that tells BMW to redesign it already.

What the Hell!

Crash testing does not mean a whole lot. I’m sure if you changed the angle of impact, all the cars would score differently.

Yeah Driver54. Go buy a Brilliance made in China and put your money where your mouth is, dude.

BTW – BMW help engineer a few things for Brilliance, I read somewhere. Now it all makes sense.

Perhaps a BMW and Mercedes are less likely to be an accident due to their superior dynamics; something a Volvo and Kia wouldn’t know about?

Any excuse to redesign a Bimmer is fine by me….

But what I don’t get is how come there are anything but “Good” ratings with production cars, especially in a mid- or full-size sedan where you’d think you’d have enough structure and space to design all the crumple zones and passive safety, etc. you’d need? I mean, it’s no secret how the IIHS tests the cars, and the manufacturers test the cars extensively before putting them into production. So the real crime here is that BMW knew that it had a sucky car in crash tests, and then charges what it does for it.
Shame on other auto makers too (especially the luxo brands), but I like picking on BMW because their cars are ugly too.

“Perhaps a BMW and Mercedes are less likely to be an accident due to their superior dynamics; something a Volvo and Kia wouldn’t know about?”

I’d laugh, but I know you’re not kidding. Run along and read some BWM marketing material now…

Its amazing when a KIA out does a BMW on a safety crash. Driver 54…….your comment was dumb, if they change the angle…….well duh, but if bmw cant even get this angle decent, what makes you think a different angle they would do better. Face it at this they sucked. No company can be perfect in everything. BMW’s just happens to be keeping you alive if you crash.

BMW should really redesign the 5 series anyway. I hate the way it looks in and out and it doesn’t drive that great either. The safety crash test shows BMW’s weakness as a manufacturer but I am confident that they will work on this issue for the new 5 and the rest of their cars.

Id still take a BMW over a Kia and volvo

niti: If you want the finest, pick the BMW.
If you want the “safest,” pick the kia

so whats BMW’s lame excuse?

Volvo is kicking butt this year in the safety department. The C70 also got top safety pick: http://www.leftlanenews.com/iihs-tests-convertibles-saab-volvo-on-top-g6-3-series-disappoint.html

Well I expected Volvo to do that well, what I didn’t expect was BMW doing so poorly, after all the technology that was packed into it. But now that I think about it, they use plastic bumpers and lightweight materials to offset weight and that might be the reason

Random Jerk that was sarcasm on my part. I was conceived in a Volvo, how safe was that?

Now that’s some bad news for BMW right there. Damn. Things are not looking too good for BMW in the safety department lately… :-/

Volvo did well !!!!

University professors rejoiced.

But, they are sad that Saab just isnt’ there yet.

And the 08 Taurus?
Top Safety pick:

“2008 Ford Taurus and 2008 Mercury Sable: good performance in front, side, and rear tests and optional electronic stability control”

Good all round… – Can’t complain eh?

I still would take the 5-Series over every other choice in the midsize sport sedan class. However these results are very surprising.

MERCEDES-BENZ WILL DOMINATE ALL CATEGORIES IN TIME TO COME….THE WORLD WILL BE ASTONISH GREATLY.

BMW IS A GREAT CAR COMPANY, BUT THEY NEED TO STEP FORWARD IN SAFETY VEHICLES……I WISH OTHER CAR-MAKERS THE VERY BEST.