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Originally Posted by ericbecky
If a smaller car and a larger car (or SUV) meet in a crash, it is likely that the smaller car will suffer more damage than the larger car. Regardless of it's supposed "safety rating"
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The key word there is CAR. The car may suffer more damage but the passenger may not. The ratings are based on slaming a car against a wall or giving it some other sort of impact at a certain speed (if the information I get from watching all those car comercials is correct
Consider the wall as an object with infinite weight becase there is no way its moving. That is probably the most impact you can give to a car at that given speed. So an Suv may even do less damage to a car at the same speed as the impact tests.
So safety rating does matter. If it didn't then we would could all feel safe riding around in the old boats from the 50s. They are after all much heavier than the current cars.