An overlooked automotive saftey issue: acceleration and handling. Minivans, Volvo's, etc. adverstise their "superb" ability prevent serious injury and/or death in an automobile accident. But what they fail to tell you is that because of their tortoise-like behavior they get into more crashes from which point they "reduce" injury to passengers. How often do I ram my car into a wall at 35mph? Never. I need a car that keeps me safe by giving me the ability to not hit the wall in the first place. My friend had a Volvo and was rearended by a drunk driver. He saw her coming but couldn't accelerate quickly enough to get out of the way (due to its Volvo-esque nature). Had he been in a "safer" car like a Corvette or a Viper, he would have been easily able to get out of the way and totally avoided the accident. I don't think you should get that 5th saftey star if you can't get from 0-60mph in under 7 seconds. And maybe you can get a 6th star if you don't sell your cars to bad drivers...