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From: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS])
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Subject: Re: American v. Foreign Cars
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Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 08:47:37 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 15 08:47:37 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!
> 
>                              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.   :-(


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