Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watdcsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watdcsu!haapanen From: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS]) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Detroit's dying dinosaurs. Message-ID: <501@watdcsu.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 11:28:15 EDT Article-I.D.: watdcsu.501 Posted: Thu Oct 11 11:28:15 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Oct-84 07:46:43 EDT References: <3826@decwrl.UUCP>, <407@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 29 > From inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson) Fri Oct 5 13:11:58 1984 > > Wrong-o, Lisa. The reason junk-boxes like VWs are not safe has nothing to do > with their weight relative to Detroit Dinosaurs (sounds like a great name > for a volleyball team, doesn't it?). > > The reason those little piles of crud are dangerous is because the sheet > metal is 100% recycled snuff-tins. CHEEEEP! Boy, aren't we rational and factual today! I guess I should expect no more in net.flame though... You should check how well Ford Tempo/Topaz did in the recent tests. Flunk! (And that's no *fluke*). VWs and other European cars have considerably more advanced passive *and* active safety features than U.S. vehicles, starting from the body construction, to steering geometry and brakes, and on to the first automatic seat belts. There may be more damage to the *car*, but less to the *occupants*. Is that not safety? Tom Haapanen University of Waterloo (519) 744-2468 allegra \ clyde \ \ decvax ---- watmath --- watdcsu --- haapanen ihnp4 / / linus / The opinions herein are not those of my employers, of the University of Waterloo, and probably not of anybody else either.