Front airbags spread like wildfire.
If you wanted a frontal airbag in your new 1984 vehicle (in the USA), I hope you had the money for the Mercedes S-Class and its optional driver airbag.
If you DIDN'T want a frontal airbag in your new 1996 vehicle (in the USA), I hope you liked the Mitsubishi Mighty Max, a basic compact truck, because that's all you could get bagless by then.
Your only choice if you didn't want dual bags in 1998 was the Toyota T100.
That's 12 years, we'll say early 1984 to early 1996, add two years for dual bags.
They spread even faster in individual vehicle classes.
If you wanted a frontal airbag in your new 1989 small car, I hope you liked the Ford Tempo and could cough up $815 for its optional driver airbag.
If you DIDN'T want a frontal airbag in your new 1995 small car, your only choice was the Kia Sephia.
Your only choice if you didn't want dual bags in your new 1996 small car was the Chevy Corsica or Beretta.
Knee airbags didn't spread quite as fast. The first knee airbag in a small car was the 2005 Scion tC. For the 2018 model year, there are 13 small car models that come without a knee airbag, 10 with a driver knee airbag, and 4 (all made by General Motors) with dual knee airbags.
In fact, driver knee airbag availability has stagnated, and passenger knee airbags have become less common in this class in recent years; in 2015, 7 small car models came with them. (16 cars had no knee bags that year, and 8 had a driver knee bag) The Scion iQ, tC and Dodge Dart were later discontinued, and no small cars have introduced a passenger knee airbag since 2013.
If you wanted a frontal airbag in your new 1984 vehicle (in the USA), I hope you had the money for the Mercedes S-Class and its optional driver airbag.
If you DIDN'T want a frontal airbag in your new 1996 vehicle (in the USA), I hope you liked the Mitsubishi Mighty Max, a basic compact truck, because that's all you could get bagless by then.
Your only choice if you didn't want dual bags in 1998 was the Toyota T100.
That's 12 years, we'll say early 1984 to early 1996, add two years for dual bags.
They spread even faster in individual vehicle classes.
If you wanted a frontal airbag in your new 1989 small car, I hope you liked the Ford Tempo and could cough up $815 for its optional driver airbag.
If you DIDN'T want a frontal airbag in your new 1995 small car, your only choice was the Kia Sephia.
Your only choice if you didn't want dual bags in your new 1996 small car was the Chevy Corsica or Beretta.
Knee airbags didn't spread quite as fast. The first knee airbag in a small car was the 2005 Scion tC. For the 2018 model year, there are 13 small car models that come without a knee airbag, 10 with a driver knee airbag, and 4 (all made by General Motors) with dual knee airbags.
In fact, driver knee airbag availability has stagnated, and passenger knee airbags have become less common in this class in recent years; in 2015, 7 small car models came with them. (16 cars had no knee bags that year, and 8 had a driver knee bag) The Scion iQ, tC and Dodge Dart were later discontinued, and no small cars have introduced a passenger knee airbag since 2013.
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