There is almost no trace of information on self-detonating Ford F-150 airbags or the resolution of concerns over 1.5 million 2004-2009 trucks equipped with them. A virtual news white-out was achieved in spite of more than 300 airbags detonating due to Ford quality or engineering failure. Why would Ford bother…
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I learned that I don't want to go anywhere near Ann Arbor.
I remember the Alpina stripes well from my time living in Europe. I don't think it was that the Alpina stripes were any less lame than the worst Chevy Monza tape package, it was just that the underlying hardware was some of the most desirable available at the time.
@catchmyshadow: I'm not even going to bother posting my idea now. Well played.
Keep looking. Find the definitions of the ratings. Poor is as bad as it gets. Take a look at the driver's seat for the Poor rated 2006 Hyundai Sonata and at the violence of the Smart crash. The dummy received deadly force.[www.iihs.org]
It wasn't survivable at all. Read the article. The driver of the Smart, the steering column of the Smart, and the front of the Mercedes all occupied the same space at the same time, leading to a dummy autopsy that tried to determine whether the 'smart' driver would have died of chest, head or leg injuries.
I hope I didn't cause you to google the video without having seen it before. Mea Culpa.
Find the IIHS article about the inter-size-class crash tests. The Smart crash test dummies were the deadest they'd seen in decades.
You're wrong about the Smart and crash tests. The only tests it does well in are the ones calibrated so that the forces are equal due to the mass of the object being impacted being the same as the Smart car. In the US, your chances of hitting anything as light as a Smart car are pretty small. The driver dummy in the…
When I drive cross country, I average about 1,150 miles a day for the first two days. I don't seem to be capable of driving any further without rest, unless I were to experiment with amphetamines maybe, but I hear that's pretty much what many truckers do.
@mkim4x: I feel like the leased i-drive junk has ruined the public perceptions of anything with a spinning propeller. When I'm in Virginia and driving the old E36, people probably just think I'm a poser who can't afford the latest in ugly German cars.
@knyghtryda: The celebrity race folks were wearing out the barriers.
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@Prawn_Star: Sent from my CR48: Only if you're planning on crashing into another Smart car.
It isn't exactly as unsettling as watching the Chrysler Turbine cars being fed to the crusher, now is it?
Ezra Dyer good.
@machaus: So basically you're saying that the match racing is NOT a demolition derby, and the syndicalist in the Chevy does have a life altering beating coming to him.
@SS427: Like the guy that sold his pristine '69 El Camino SS to the guys from Monster Garage who turned it into a figure-8 racer and destroyed it in a day, what a dick!
@zekestone: There is a big difference between a racing incident and what happened in the video. It is pretty horrible that there are people who pretend they're car enthusiasts who can't tell the difference. Hardigree is deranged.
964s didn't actually have these wheels, because the change to negative offset steering changed the wheel offsets that were available and so the classic wheels didn't work anymore. While there is something to be said for the 993, the 964 didn't have the 901s classic looks or sensitive steering.