Can someone point me to a website to see the rankings of latest and common models of different cars? Like Honda, Toyota, Kia...different segments..which ones are affordable but safe?

Wow! Thanks guys. I looked at the aseancap site and surprised to find Honda City a very safe car. Also, Honda Jazz (or Fit overseas).

I wonder how effective side airbags are. I mean, in a frontal collision, the design can make the frontal portion absorb the impact and then the airbags "supplement" the absorption. But in a side impact, anything beyond mild impact is likely to penetrate deep into cabin. Are airbags useful in such cases?

Are there any studies indicating how effective are

1) safety belts
2) frontal airbags
3) side and/or curtain airbags

in minimising damage in terms of % of importance?

Asking a lame question here: Safety ratings for different categories of cars. If both a small car and a bigger car get 5 star ( or equivalent ), can we assume both are as safe? Or the bigger car is always safer?

Is it confirmed same rating bigger car is safer? It should be but sometimes it can be deceiving like those crash tests where those big solid cars do worse. Ford Fiesta is quite high rating. If bang against Honda Accord(also high rating), who will come out better? Guess nobody does such tests?

Looking at the current Accord, only the 2.4 have dual side airbags. The 2.0 dun have even costing close to 150k. Fxxk!!

NO!!!!

Malaysians like to be suckers!