Figured I throw this out there since some of us are car guys in general and may wonder how some hold up to the unexpected.
So, I'll admit the dark secret - my DD for the last 3 years have been Mustangs. In 2014, it came down to the best optioned, best performing car for the money and I bought my first (still hard to believe) Ford product, a 2014 mustang, to get one of the last live rear axle cars built. This year I upgraded to a 2016, relegating the 2014 to a garage weekend car status.
Today, the 2016 was rear ended by a late model tahoe up on rims while we were stopped, blinker on, waiting for a turn. Driver also had no license at all, and no tags on the truck (using GA version of a used car lot temp tag). Driver got arrested among citations, but waiting to see how insurances play out... thank god for carrying uninsured/underinsured, should work out ok in the end... just going to be slower with headaches along the way.
Speaking of headaches, have one, got out of the er around 10pm but luckily the injuries/spasms and the like are basically all soft tissue after the ct scans and related fun.
Sorry for the vent, here is what I wanted to share. We were dead stop, and admittedly much lighter vehicle. Speed zone was 45 mph, and while we don't know what the tahoe was doing, we do know it didn't try to stop before impact. Car did well, and should be repairable after the fact. Impact slightly off center, hit fell about 10 inches to the RH of the centerline then over to the RH edge of car. Rear cover bent up and loose, taillamp and such broke of course, trunk lid jammed in and down, passenger door barely making slight contact with a couple spots on the fender when opening/closing. Really not bad for what you would expect. Worst of the damage is some unibody movement since the body gap at quarter panel spread a uniform finger width wider than the 1/8 inch it started as. From 50 feet away it doesn't even look very damaged.
So, real world story of a car doing its job, well, in a bad situation. So if you're looking for something to DD in, at least in my experience, this particular car did as well as it looked. Meanwhile I get more rest and muscle relaxants while we wait to see the insurance attitude.
So, I'll admit the dark secret - my DD for the last 3 years have been Mustangs. In 2014, it came down to the best optioned, best performing car for the money and I bought my first (still hard to believe) Ford product, a 2014 mustang, to get one of the last live rear axle cars built. This year I upgraded to a 2016, relegating the 2014 to a garage weekend car status.
Today, the 2016 was rear ended by a late model tahoe up on rims while we were stopped, blinker on, waiting for a turn. Driver also had no license at all, and no tags on the truck (using GA version of a used car lot temp tag). Driver got arrested among citations, but waiting to see how insurances play out... thank god for carrying uninsured/underinsured, should work out ok in the end... just going to be slower with headaches along the way.
Speaking of headaches, have one, got out of the er around 10pm but luckily the injuries/spasms and the like are basically all soft tissue after the ct scans and related fun.
Sorry for the vent, here is what I wanted to share. We were dead stop, and admittedly much lighter vehicle. Speed zone was 45 mph, and while we don't know what the tahoe was doing, we do know it didn't try to stop before impact. Car did well, and should be repairable after the fact. Impact slightly off center, hit fell about 10 inches to the RH of the centerline then over to the RH edge of car. Rear cover bent up and loose, taillamp and such broke of course, trunk lid jammed in and down, passenger door barely making slight contact with a couple spots on the fender when opening/closing. Really not bad for what you would expect. Worst of the damage is some unibody movement since the body gap at quarter panel spread a uniform finger width wider than the 1/8 inch it started as. From 50 feet away it doesn't even look very damaged.
So, real world story of a car doing its job, well, in a bad situation. So if you're looking for something to DD in, at least in my experience, this particular car did as well as it looked. Meanwhile I get more rest and muscle relaxants while we wait to see the insurance attitude.