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Drive to produce injury-proof car
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Apr. 30 - Swedish car giant Volvo sets a target to eliminate death and injury in its vehicles by 2020.

The firm says it is claiming a first in setting a target date in the race to cut the world-wide crash toll of 1.2 million deaths and 50 million injuries each year.

Paul Chapman reports.

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1992 300D 2.5T
1980 Euro 300D (sadly, sold)
1998 Jetta TDI, 132K "Rudy"
1974 Triumph TR6
1999 Saab 9-5 wagon (wife's)

is taht anything like a nearly unsinkable ship?

What! And put the insurance companies out of business. i seem to remember Volvo being invloved in a lawsuit when they had those commercials with the reinforced steel cages (not provided on the consumer cars) being crashed and the occupents surviving....

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

Hardly. It would put a certain sector of the plaintiff attorney, chiropractic, massage therapy and physical therapy industry "out of business."

Yuk They can call it the Volvantic.

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95 SL500 Smoke Silver, Parchment 64K
07 E350 4matic Station Wagon White 34K
02 E320 4Matic Silver/grey 80K
05 F150 Silver 44K

Not to hijack but there was a study just completed that found most of the rivets used in the Titanic were not the ones the architechts requested and where made from inferior materials and had they used the ones specified the ship probably whould have made it.

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

Back in the 80's, Volvo had an ad showing some cars stacked on top of each other. It turned out the cars were reinforced and braced so the lower cars wouldn't be crushed.

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Warren

Currently 1965 220Sb, 2002 FORD Crown Vic Police Interceptor

Had 1965 220SEb, 1967 230S, 280SE 4.5, 300SE (W126), 420SEL

ENTER > = (HP RPN)

Not part of the in-crowd since 1952.

If you dress like the Michelin man, you should be safe as can be.

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The only way to eliminate death and injury in vehicles is by not driving at all.

I'm picturing a car of the future that runs on air and looks like a pillow . . . .

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

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1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

I'll have what he's drinking...

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

Just coffee so far . . . .

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

I DO happen to be high on life today, though.

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

NASCAR and other governing bodies have forced race car designers to implement a vast quantity of features that make the cars capable of all sorts of high-speed collisions, with the drivers getting no more than a scratch. Never mind that all of this is limited to protection for a single occupant in a severly spartan compartment...a vehicle that costs prohibitively more than any of us are willing to spend on a vehicle.

And with all of that, some fatalities still occur.

Pretty arrogant claim for any manufacturer to make...

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car

I see it as pure marketing. They have always played the "safest car on the road" claim... this just seems to be the "logical" (or, rather, illogical!) next claim to make. It'll sell cars.

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1992 300D 2.5T
1980 Euro 300D (sadly, sold)
1998 Jetta TDI, 132K "Rudy"
1974 Triumph TR6
1999 Saab 9-5 wagon (wife's)