My crash story:

Around 1996 I was driving a POS '76 Buick Century (no airbag of course) and making a left turn on to a major road. I was hit behind the rear axle by an early 90's Saturn. The hit was hard enough to total the Saturn. I continued driving the Buick for several more months with a caved in left rear quarter. I don't remember the Saturn having airbags, and both drivers were uninjured.

A friend in college got hit in the side while driving an air bag equipped car. Frontal airbags aren't supposed to deploy in a side impact, but this time they did. She would not have been injured at all had the airbag not deployed, but it did, and my friend received a broken wrist as a result.

Due to two facts (and other less important reasons), I avoid cars with airbags. Those facts are:

1. Air bags kill short people.
2. I am a short person.

I know I'm oversimplifying a bit, but that's the meat of it.

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83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 401,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 26,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.
99 Mazda Miata 183,xxx miles.