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Fewer cars made the list this year, largely because the insurance group has added a new test of roof strength in a rollover to determine overall car safety.

yea right, we ALL know how unsafe toyotas are.

and if your refering to

"2009 Lexus ES350" fatality crash that got headlines

im not impressed, saddened at the loss. although i think if i were in thier shoes id have turned the motor off. at least thats what i did when similar things happened to me.

The private Insurance Institute for Highway Safety here in the United States has released its list for what it considers the safest cars of 2010; 19 passenger cars and eight sport utility vehicles received top honors. Ford, Subaru and Volkswagen lead the pack.
27 cars and sport utility vehicles received top safety awards for 2010 models. Other winners included Honda and G.M. But in a surprise twist this year, Toyota, the world's largest automaker, came up empty.

At first, said Dr. Michaels, the climatologist who has faulted some of the science of the global warming consensus, his instinct was to ignore the correspondence as just the way scientists talk.

The intruders sought to create a mock blog post there and to upload the full batch of files from Britain. That effort was thwarted, Dr. Schmidt said, and scientists immediately notified colleagues at the University of East Anglias Climatic Research Unit. The first posts that revealed details from the files appeared Thursday at The Air Vent, a Web site devoted to skeptics arguments.

He said the breach at the University of East Anglia was discovered after hackers who had gained access to the correspondence sought Tuesday to hack into a different server supporting realclimate a blog unrelated to NASA that he runs with several other scientists pressing the case that global warming is true.

But several scientists whose names appear in the e-mail messages said they merely revealed that scientists were human, and did nothing to undercut the body of research on global warming. Science doesnt work because were all nice, said Gavin A. Schmidt, a climatologist at NASA whose e-mail exchanges with colleagues over a variety of climate studies were in the cache. Newton may have been an ass, but the theory of gravity still works.

In addition, other independent but indirect measurements of temperature fluctuations in the studies broadly agreed with the thermometer data showing rising temperatures.

Dr. Mann explained that the reliability of the tree-ring data was called into question, so they were no longer used to track temperature fluctuations. But he said dropping the use of the tree rings was never something that was hidden, and had been in the scientific literature for more than a decade. It sounds incriminating, but when you look at what youre talking about, theres nothing there, Dr. Mann said.

Through the last century, tree rings and thermometers show a consistent rise in temperature until 1960, when some tree rings, for unknown reasons, no longer show that rise, while the thermometers continue to do so until the present.