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: American v. Foreign Cars Message-ID: <507@watdcsu.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 08:47:37 EDT Article-I.D.: watdcsu.507 Posted: Mon Oct 15 08:47:37 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Oct-84 03:48:56 EDT References: <199@umcp-cs.UUCP>, <542@sjuvax.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 34 <.> > 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! > > Whip out those flamethrowers... > Anthony J. Rowley Whose brakes failed? The Firebird's or the Datsun's? Does that make the Firebird (avec le Screaming Chicken) the safer car? As I said earlier, Europeans and Japanese do not measure safety by what happens to the sheet metal, but *** HOW SAFE THE OCCUPANTS ARE ***. If you take a look at the cellular construction of the passenger compartment of, say, a Rabbit (soon to be Golf), you will see that the front and rear ends *** ARE DESIGNED TO WRINKLE AND THUS ABSORB THE IMPACT ***. I'd rather have hamburger made out of my car than out of me. :-( 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.