[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: Audi snubbed again
Hairy green toads from Mars made Matt Bartholomew say: > >For the curious, if you're driving the passat and you get into an > >offset crash - don't plan on walking again. > > This surprised me somewhat...I'd like to see how a Golf or Jetta does. Well, I have a datapoint there. My first Golf, a 1985, was in a 40MPH offset frontal frash, where the "barrier" was a 1978 Plymouth Station Wagon that plowed into my driver's front corner. Final Score: My Golf was wrecked (but bought and spliced/repaired), while the Plymouth was barely dinged. But, I walked away without a scratch, and the driver of the Plymouth (with his seatbelt on) went to the hospital for many days. > Matt > '88 5000tq - no air bag and damn proud of it! '89 100Q - Ditto! -- Andrew L. Duane (JOT-7) duane@zk3.dec.com Digital Equipment Corporation (603)-881-1294 110 Spit Brook Road http://www.zk3.dec.com/~duane M/S ZKO3-3/U14 Nashua, NH 03062-2698 Only my cat shares my opinions, and she's a windbag, not an airbag.
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