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1987 300TD 309, xxx 2.8.2014 10,000 mile OCI Be careful of the toes you step on today, as they may be connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow. anonymous “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter won’t mind.” Dr. Seuss |
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One of my Organs....
One of my Organs takes like 2 hours to go from 0 to 1 mph in the morning. My brain without coffee. So I guess 80 to 0 in milliseconds would really toast my processors
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186 mph is even better. Like the TGV, Thalys, etc. When you meet another train going 186, you really get a sense of how fast you are going.
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1987 300TD 309, xxx 2.8.2014 10,000 mile OCI Be careful of the toes you step on today, as they may be connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow. anonymous “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter won’t mind.” Dr. Seuss |
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My wife will drive nothing but the HUGE chevy astro... she drives my two daughters around town back and forth to school. she just likes the high visibility of the mid size van. and it can handle just about any cargo she decides to carry. who pays for the gas... anybody wanna guess? I mean when she does get some gas because the idiot light came on and beeped to here that she will be walking soon, she does not even check to see how much it was. No, I am the one spending the money to keep her 120.00/week vehicle stays full of fuel... at 15 MPG or so, when she drives it... (ain't it odd that when I drive it, the meeter alway reads around 20Mpg... but it never topps 17 when she is in it... A/C, rabbit starts at the light, awww who am I kidding... it won't change...) Heck, my SUBURBAN gets better mileage when I drive it than her van does...
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You need to restore some law & order in your family. There's no way I'd finance that kind of gas guzzling in my family.
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Carrameow, Bio said it right. Basically there are two principal dangers to you in an accident: getting crushed and suffering internal injuries from too much force. The Smart does a great job of preventing you from getting crushed but it has limited ability to protect you from impact forces in collisions with heavier vehicles. It's a simple law of physics. The momentum of the heavier vehicle has to go somewhere. As to your original post the vehicle getting T-boned will almost always be at a disadvantage regardless of size. That's quite a vulnerable spot to be hit in because there's not much of a crumple zone there (just the door and B-pillar). There's a good chance the Ram driver would also suffer serious injuries or even death if he were T-boned by the PT-cruiser. Getting T-boned sucks.
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What are you talking about? The Smart didn't fail anything.
http://www.iihs.org/ratings/ratingsbyseries.aspx?id=632
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Here's also a link to the earlier (1998-2001) Dodge Ram crash test. I would not want to be in this truck.
http://www.iihs.org/ratings/rating.aspx?id=6
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fail
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I did and I didn't see that image you posted anywhere in that video. I'm sure you could also make the S600 "fail" in a collision with a dump truck.
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Yes but the chances of a Smart hitting a larger car is very, very good. The chances of hitting a dumptruck with the S600 are pretty small.
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We're arguing about nothing. I never disputed that the S600 is safer than the Smart. That's a no-brainer. What I was disputing is the notion that the Smart "failed". Failed what? That image that H-townbenzoboy posted implies that the Smart failed the IIHS's crash test. That's totally untrue.
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