Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!gargoyle!stuart From: stuart@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Stuart Kurtz) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: American v. Foreign Cars Message-ID: <218@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 16:55:54 EDT Article-I.D.: gargoyle.218 Posted: Mon Oct 15 16:55:54 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Oct-84 06:24:53 EDT References: <199@umcp-cs.UUCP> <542@sjuvax.UUCP> Organization: U. Chicago - Computer Science Lines: 21 > I don't know about anyone else out there in computer-land, but I myself > will ride in no foreign car unless I have no choice. I had a brake failure > on my former car (an '81 Firebird) and hit a '79 Datsun. NO,repeat,no > serious damage done to my car; however, the Datsun's rear looked like > multicolored metallic hamburger. Now tell me whether imports are safer than > domestics! This is supposed to be a serious argument in favor of American Cars? Seriously, I've been through two brake failures myself ('69 Mustang). I've probably logged 150,000 miles of driving in the past decade, about equally split between Detroit's finest (Chevy's and Fords) and Germany's (An Audi and a VW Rabbit). In that entire time, I've never had a serious on-road failure of the safety mechanisms on either foriegn car; In addition to the brake failures, I've had several flats -- a safety issue on the US cars -- no sweat on the Audi. I still contend that the greatest threat to the safety of my VW is all those damn Buicks and Oldsmobiles on the Ryan. Stu