But that still works out to being about 9 million vehicles involved in accidents.   I had an accident in my 2006 Mustang GT about 20 years ago, I winded up rear ending someone because they started stopping (there was a lawn tractor trimming the sholder) and i was looking down and by the time I looked up, it was too late. I hit them with the passenger side front corner of the front end.  Anyways-I did about 15K worth of damage. They had to replace the front end assembly that held the bumper and radiator, the hood and fender. They cut the front subframe on the passenger side to do the repair at a natural break point (there was an article at the time about how Ford was saving money with repairs by doing something like this) and the car didn't have any issues afterwards for the 11-12 years I had it after that. That was nearly half of what the car was worth at the time and I had no air bags deploy. 

Just because rules that apply to others do not apply to us doesn't mean we have a self absorbed sense of entitlement.   

To put this in perspective, it is a very small percentage of the vehicle fleet that is involved in serious accidents (if you believe Gemini). Given that, I’d choose a less expensive vehicle and accept the 3% risk of it having a more expensive repair (or being totaled).   From Gemini:   “In 2022, approximately 3.08%of all registered vehicles in the United States were involved in police-reported accidents. When specifically looking at serious accidents—defined as those resulting in injury or death—about 0.67% of registered vehicles were involved.”

But cost savings in manufacturing get passed to consumers.  That's how Ford is meeting the $30k target price.  So even if it costs more to repair the buyer may still be ahead.

Weather it is a BMW "driver" (aka bimmer) or a BMW "rider" (aka beemer) both have a self absorbed sense of entitlement that just oozes " <censored> on the inside." - Present company excluded of course. 

it doesn’t really matter-the cost to fix a complex assembly vs a simplified one will always be more. You have to look at it as a holistic cost-insurance pretty much automatically total outs a car where multiple airbags have gone off because the labor costs to replace them doesn’t make sense for the insurance company, even though the car is fixable. It boils down to profitability of the insurance company vs it actually being worth doing. 

Sorry, Ford does not make them....you may want to try Raytheon Circle News forum....   PS: You may be able to fit a BGM-71 in a Transit Connect, but firing it from inside might present a problem. May be better if you roof mount it although you might get a visit from the FBI over it...jus' sayin'....  

We're not going down this rabbit hole.

I have not seen a diesel transit bus in years.  All the transits around here are CNG or BEV's.