Data Dump: Big Car Blues edition

Growing vehicles correlate with rising highway fatalities

A circa 1990 Jeep Cherokee, a 1989 Nissan Sentra, and a 2021 Toyota Tacoma. The Jeep was a medium sized SUV for its era, but it is more than a foot shorter than the modern Tacoma and weighs about 1,000 pounds less than the empty Tacoma (sans camper shell). One can easily see the potential crash compatibility between the Tacoma and the Sentra. Read on fo…