Well.....good thing there are alerts, so I can respond to this type of thing..... 98-00 uses sand instead of proper airbags, so..... It's not that the 98-00 wins....it's that Honda can't be bothered to repair the mistakes that far back when the superior models from 01-02 were made.....those being the models that matter.
90s Hondas always win! But seriously though, why couldn't Honda just recall every single airbag in the first round of airbag recalls? Corporates never make sense at all.