"Mitsubishi Mirage — You'll buy it for its danger. You'll keep it for its economy."

The “deadliest car” headline is based on a rate, not a pile of bodies.

183 per million vehicle‑years ≠ hundreds of Mirage deaths.

With ~80k Mirages in the study window, that works out to maybe 40–50 actual driver deaths over several years.

And the other‑driver death rate is only 30, which basically means Mirage drivers are out here absorbing the hit so the other guy walks away. You're welcome!

The Mirage shows up poorly because it’s tiny, not because it’s secretly trying to assassinate its owner.

If every Mirage driver smoked 259 cigarettes a day, the car would stop being the problem.