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From: jayl@athena.UUCP (Jay Lessert)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Detroit's dying dinosaurs.
Message-ID: <54@athena.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 11:39:37 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  2 11:39:37 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 5-Oct-84 05:46:11 EDT
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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> 	one reason that US autos get bad milage is the way that they
> are constructed, (to save your life, when you wreck) domestic cars
> have to answer to all kinds of regulations and consumer groups.
> (foreign cars do not have this problem).

Generalizations and misinformation.... sigh.

With very few exceptions (importing *limited* numbers of Ferraris,
Maseratis and other such exotica), foreign cars imported into the US
are subject to exactly the same safety and emission control regulations
as cars built in the US.

Your safety argument is somewhat suspect, in my opinion.  Big, land-barge
American cars do well in EPA "crash-testing" simply because of their mass.
This does not take into account an automobile's ability to *avoid* being
in the wreck in the first place; simply put, my '84 Scirocco (for instance)
does a better job of accelerating, decelerating, and going where I point
it than any American car comparable in price, performance, and interior room.
-- 

	Jay Lessert - Tektronix Inc., Logic Design Systems Division

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