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JimH wrote:
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On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 17:30:10 -0400, "JimH" ask wrote:

I have to admit that Consumer Reports has a thing for Toyotas as they
are
always recommended by them.
Mrs. Wave bought a Subaru station wagon (against my wishes I might
add) based on Consumer Reports. She felt it was safer.

One day she's driving along at 30 mph on Thompson Dam Road when a two
kids who stole a 125 Honda dirt bike shot out from a ditch and she hit
the bike broadside.

End result - $6,280 worth of damage to the Subaru - totaled. The
owner of the dirt bike showed up after a call from the SP, picked the
bike up off the ground, started it and drove away.

So much for Consumer Reports.

Hmmm.

I'm not sure it means anything. Figure 150 pounds each for the kids, 200
pounds for the dirtbike. Maybe 500 pounds overall. Larger than most of
the deer that total cars or causes thousands in damage.

The kids would be dead or severely injured and I doubt that a 200 pound
dirtbike would survive being hit broadside by an SUV traveling 30 mph. I
just don't believe the story.

I can't explain this, but I think that because a deer is (like a human)
largely water, it'll damage a car differently than some other object, like a
dirt bike.