Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:55:22 -0800
Reply-To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: VW bus and beetle on Yahoo's 10 deadlies car list. Any thruth?
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That's just bullsh*t!
That grouping is a hodgepodge of cowboy 'journalism' The Chevy pickup story
was invented by NBC news, who rigged some C10s with explosives and showed
the massive fireballs in slow-mo on their 'investigative journalism' TV
show. These are the same clowns who crucified the Audi 5000 for 'sudden
acceleration' when Cadillac and Mercury Marquis' had much higher rates of
'pedal misapplication' ie the idiot driver mashed the wrong pedal and kept
on holding it down.
Any teenage boy who ever brake-torqued Dad's Pontiac at the stoplight drags
knows that the brakes are stronger than the motor.
Change providers, they'll be telling you the holocaust never happened and
that smoking has health benefits next...
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Poppie Jagersand <poppie.jagersand@yahoo.ca
> wrote:
> Both the VW bus and beetle are nr 10 and 4 respectively on the
> deadliest car list, prominently flashed on Yahoo's Canadian home page
> this morning. (maybe time to switch email provider?)
>
> http://ca.autos.yahoo.com/p/1145/deadliest-car-designs
>
> Is there any objective truth to this? I once saw an article that
> despite the obvious challenges in making a forward cab vehicle safe
> in head on collisions, the T3 bus/vanagon is in fact one of the least
> accident prone vehicles in the insurance statistics. Obviously
> accidents are caused by vehicle plus driver. (The no 6, Corvette,
> on the list might have been safer if marketed as an "Oldsmobile" to
> that segment of GM customers.)
>
> My guess is that the list is a product of a clueless journalist
> who did little real research. If someone can find true statistics
> on vehicle models and deaths and then enough of us email Yahoo,
> with these facts maybe they would feel compelled to up their quality
> of journalism?
>
> Martin
>
>
>
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Jake
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