Almost 50 percentage of accidends in muv/suv happend in kerala by tavera and around 95 percentage of tavera travellers died and 5 percentage live with severe damage in thier head, legs, etc. The most funny thing is past week this vehicle collide with a maruti esteem, 2 travellers in tavera died at spot and 1 traveller in tavera died at hospital, all travellers in the esteem are secure with small injuries.
( viewers can get information about this from all leading news pappers in kerala manoramaonline.com mathurbhumi.com etc)
I think American car manufacturers dont mind about the safety of the vehicle.they look for a good mileage.
Even the Koreans are selling good secure vehicles in india
Curently in kerala tavera is used mainly for taxi purpose.Taxi drivers said now, the passengers not prefer tavera for long drive, they prefer scorpio, sumo, innova etc.
The resale value of tavera in kerala is big trageddy, because still the qualis get a good resale value in kerala.