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*sniff* Posted by Saana88 [Email]  (#207)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Saana88) on Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:35:19
In Reply to: byebye another C900 but another saved life, Mike H, Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:39:19 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
First of all, it's good to hear you are okay. I hate to hear about such nice cars going before their time, but the whole ultimate-sacrifice thing will be with you for a while. Best of luck to you in your future affairs, like selling me parts (see below).
I am a structural engineer (unemployed, of course) and work for a dealership for, you know, that other Swedish car company. The Mazda 3 or 6 or whichever one it is shares underpinnings with the new S40 which has proven to be a very robust compact platform. You've proven you are sensible since you and everyone else buckled up. Good luck with your new car, but you'll be back. I came back.
I bought a convertible back in October and have been working on it; she'll hit the road on the 27th and I wanted to know if they were good in an impact; there are extra braces from the base of the windshield to the floorpan for that purpose. 40 miles per hour head-on is like running into a wall at 75-80 or so but with a little extra crush time involved. Still, it's a serious impact and fast enough that you can credit your seatbelt with saving your face and neck and back and other bits from harm. My sister is a physical therapist; she gets to work on para- and quadrapelegics with rearranged faces who did not buckle up.
Obviously the Ford didn't crumple much. Make sure his license is shredded. Just today someone locally was sentenced for his DWI (ran over a teacher, coach, leader, etc. under the influence) and they really had no choice but put him away for the maximum sentence, you see last weekend he was pulled over for DWI again... The newspapers ate it up.
Not only SUM coverage, but now you can throw the book at the guy; he may not be driving anytime in the next five years or so, and when he does don't expect insurance to be cheap. If he's a repeat offender, then it's most likely a felony and you can kiss whatever license he had goodbye and you're into mandatory jail terms, and still people keep doing it.
I hate to say this, but at least he didn't head-on someone in a Chevy Cadaver or a Kia or other structurally inferior cars. A head-on or offset head-on collision with a heavier vehicle is one of my worst nightmares. The classic 900 only got three "stars" (real subjective ratings, folks) in the US government crash tests for the driver's side; rumor has it that's because they didn't secure the driver's seat after adjusting it and it moved during the collision. Yeah, and EPA downgrades fuel mileage ratings for manual-shift cars too.
Please, please, please sell me some parts!!! I need a bunch of convertible-specific parts! E-mail me!
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