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Old 12-24-2006, 11:27 PM   #1
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Let me guess: you Australian people are much fragile and more prone to head injuries than North Americans, in a side crash

Here in Canada only the sedan has optional side airbags. What's the problem with the Hb ? Take off the rear panels in a 2 doors hatchback and look inside the wall: there is ONLY the exterior sheet of metal to protect the rear passengers
Don't know why but yeah. Kinda weird how differently toyota have specced the Yaris in each region.

In my Yaris the rear seats have their own curtain airbags situated in the C-pillar.

We also got other weird items I haven't seen in other regions like an electronic guage cluster with a big digital speedo and electronic tacho kinda like the old Soarer/Lexus SC300/SC400s.
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Old 12-30-2006, 10:15 AM   #2
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Take a look at this more complete video, judge by yourself

1- the airbag seems to offer no protection to the driver's head, as the head would hit the steering wheel
2- with side curtain airbag versus without it

http://www.car.com/content/research/...ODEL_VCH/Yaris

You might want to compare to the Fit crash test:
http://www.car.com/content/research/.../MODEL_VCH/Fit

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Old 12-22-2006, 03:47 PM   #3
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YOU must have been searching way before me. I heard rumors that the earliest distribution didnt contain many. At anyrate, I found two on a lot in my city, The i called Tenessee to consider going there for one with ABS that had them also, but that didnt happen--wish i had though, ive learned alot about ABS since and its def a valuable addition--though not as good as on other cars, just as the side airbags arent as good as on other cars. Anyway, there are def airbagged options out there, just look at me ;) side airbags.

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Old 12-22-2006, 03:59 PM   #4
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Damn! So they really do exist. lol!!
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