Quote Originally Posted by dergside View Post
In the day the e36 would have been regarded fairly highly in safety against the competition. Just goes to show how far safety tech has come on in a relatively short period of time, and why cars weigh a lot more that their closest equivalents of a couple of generations older.
Not necessarily as cars from the same era score higher on the ncap rating even to this day the e39 for example scores a 4/5 the e46 also a four the weight difference is quite small between two identical 3 series e36/e46 has only a 50kg weight difference if we advance say 3 gens to the f30 I'm sure the weight difference is a fair bit more though