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From: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: American v. Foreign Cars
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Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 13:33:41 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 17 13:33:41 1984
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>> 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
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