There is an Institute for Highway Safety study from about 1993 that looked at driver deaths per 100,000 registered vehicles for the model years 1988-1992. Some hundreds of car and truck models were studied. The study concluded that two Volvo models led the field for safety as measured by driver deaths. The 240 came in first at ZERO deaths followed by the 700 series at 0.7 deaths per 100,000 (I think the latter is correct but it is from memory. The rest of the top ten were all airbag equipped cars. At the very bottom of the safety list with 36 deaths per 100,000 cars was that fiberglass/all engine, no body wonder, the Corvette. I have a copy of a summary of that study that I cut out of Parade years ago. Don't give me handwaving arguments about Driver demographics, ZERO deaths, is an indisputable hard number and speaks volumes. Together with Volvos invention of the 3-point safety harness, safety glass, collapsible steering columns, padded dash, diagonal circuit brakes, submarining engine and on and on, does any informed person actually dispute Volvos supremacy in the field of safety?