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25 September 2011, 09:54 PM

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Check out the baby seat in the back in the frontal impact: http://www.euroncap.com/tests/mitsubishi_l200/314.aspx
That's gonna hurt the baby no matter how well it performs.

That ncap rating looks quite good to me or am i reading it wrong? I just checked for a navara and its award maximum points for protection of a 3 year old so maybe them people crusing around with there kids in the back are doing so for a reason

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25 September 2011, 09:55 PM

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Same child protection as a VW Golf...

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25 September 2011, 09:56 PM

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And 30mpg in a 12 second to 60mph car? Seriously? Why even try to argue that as being acceptable for a everyday car by comparing it to a car that does 60mph in 5seconds? If anything its just proving how inadequate its performance+economy is. Don't try to make it out as something it clearly isn't: fast or economical. Its neither.

my sisters corsa 1.2 only gets just under 30mpg if you give it plenty of right foot and I doubt that does 0-60 in less than about 12 seconds....

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25 September 2011, 09:58 PM

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The Ford F-150 with the 6.2 L V8 isn't going to be slow.

Nah keep the V8 petrols for the muscle cars: It has to be a Cummin or Powerstroke diesel modified to 1000bhp....just so I can blow black smoke onto any eco warriors I pass by

And they'll do a quater mile in less time it'll take a L200 to hit 60 (which inccidentally is faster than a standard scoob

). Although even on diesel the MPG will be worse than the average scoob.

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25 September 2011, 10:11 PM

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Forget the ncap points - as mentioned earlier its all about size blah blah.

Look at the video and how the occupants are tossed around - it will hurt. Guaranteed. Especially the baby seat in the front impact. The point being when I'm faced with people (sorry, to be more precise; the school run mothers on a mission) driving these things directly at me like its invincible, then they are going to get hurt as much as they will hurt me. Yes I'm narked about it, and I suppose they'd drive like that in any big SUV/4x4 thing, but round here its mostly double cab Navarras and L200s.

Why? Well all spotlessly clean I may add, and look like they've never had anything in the load space other than the kids bikes. So I'd speculate the hubby is on a tax fiddle to get wifey a cheap 4x4. Either that or its on motability.

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