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connoisseur said:
How many times have we seen this? Unskilled driver, too much horsepower and wet roads. Just because you can afford the car doesn't mean you know how to drive it. 
Correct
But Darwinian selection tends to prevail....
Mfrs need real-world crash data to optimize safety engineering, esp on low-volume (often fair-weather wkend-only low-mileage) cars where real-world crash data is scant....
Better for mfrs to have early crashes in EU, where expensive litigation is less prevalent than in US....so mfrs have chance to modify any obvious/easily-fixable safety flaws revealed before broad-scale US distribution...and, in a youtube/Net-linked world, typically hard to hide (for more than a few mins) a post-crash fire/unusually negative outcome involving any prominent car....
Doubt we will ever see useable, hard safety data re: any of these cars, but most rennteamers are smart enough re: cars to quickly form own common-sense impressions of relative active/passive safety vs comparable cars....
