Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot From: chabot@amber.DEC Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: American v. Foreign cars Message-ID: <3945@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 15:49:15 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3945 Posted: Wed Oct 17 15:49:15 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Oct-84 19:25:03 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 26 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 UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot ARPA: ...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA USFail: DEC, MR03-1/K20, 2 Iron Way, Marlborough, MA 01752 shadow: [ISSN 0018-9235 v21 #10 p81, bottom vt100, col3, next to next to last]