Well, I guess that's part of why I like driving my pickup truck. An old one made of real metal. Safety is part of the recommendations/ratings in the book. It's broken down in detail. Of course if you get hit, a small car is not the best. Then there's defensive driving. I have a horror of accidents, having dealt with the grisly details of incident and injury information in my work in the past.

PS to my previous post. 2011/2012 LemonAid, which I just got from the library, says the Subaru Legacy is overpriced but above average in quality. Better on difficult terrain than highways. How can that be? I actually don't plan on traversing logging roads. That's a bit scary for me, though I suppose I should get used to it in order to get to the best canoeing locations. This is alogging province and there are a lot of logging roads. Says fuel consumption is about 15% more than the stated 11/8 L/100 km (city/highway). Unfortunately it seems to have higher than average repair costs. I dislike that quite a bit.