Hedge funds thought they'd been smart by locking in a three-to-four-percentage-point spread by selling protection on those tranches and buying it on less risky ones.
"The better vehicles are going to have side and curtain airbags, and you'll get three-point belts in the third-row seat, " says Shenhar, who added that head restraints with whiplash protection are another feature that separates the safest SUVs from the rest of the pack.