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Subject: Re: American v. Foreign cars
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Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 15:49:15 EDT
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Anthony J. Rowley  ==  >

> 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!

I don't know about anyone else out there in bit-bucket-land, but I myself will
not drive any road with a detroit dino elsewhere on it unless I have no choice.

Perhaps if the brake-failure car had been a maneuverable import instead, damage
to the car ahead could have been avoided.  Like has been said elsewhere about
vehicles like the Firebird: "Looks like a fish, mooooves like a fish, steers
like a cow."

And the important part is not the damage sustained by the Datsun, but the damage
sustained by the occupants of the Datsun.  I know lots of Rabbits opened up
by hulking Buicks hungry for a little cottontail, but nobody's been hurt, and
the car was still drivable. 

L S Chabot
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