Are our Slants "Unsafe"?

Id rather take my chances in a big metal coffin car than a scion..cant imagine what a scion would look like after a 55 mph t bone from a dump truck.

Okeh, let's grant your guess and say the big metal coffin's safer in the kind of crash you have in mind -- even though it's not. Now let's look at how likely you are to be on the receiving end of a 55mph T-bone from a dump truck vs. the many other kinds of much more common crashes.