Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cae780.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!amd!cae780!gordon From: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Re: American v. Foreign Cars Message-ID: <415@cae780.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 13:33:41 EDT Article-I.D.: cae780.415 Posted: Wed Oct 17 13:33:41 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 04:47:03 EDT References: <199@umcp-cs.UUCP>, <542@sjuvax.UUCP>, <507@watdcsu.UUCP> Organization: CAE Systems Inc. Sunnyvale, Ca. Lines: 27 >> 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! >> >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 ***. It is tough to make your point, albeit a good one, when you pick an AMERICAN car (the Rabbit, built in PA which is still part of the USA) as your example of a European car! FROM: Brian G. Gordon, CAE Systems USENET: {ucbvax, ihnp4, decvax!decwrl}!amd!cae780!gordon {resonex, qubix, hplabs}!cae780!gordon USNAIL: 1333 Bordeaux Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089 AT&T: (408)745-1440