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« on: 2004-05-27, 11:43 »
http://www.bridger.us/2002/12/16/CrashTest...ooperVsFordF150

Neat read if you're into car safety.
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« Reply #1 on: 2004-05-27, 13:45 »
I never liked ford anyway Slipgate - Smile
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« Reply #2 on: 2004-05-27, 20:48 »
damn you con , damn you .


/me huggles some mustang , torino , falcon  pictures and looks at the prices of those machines .

I will never get 1 of those cars Slipgate - Sad
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« Reply #3 on: 2004-05-28, 08:25 »
GK: actually, my co-worker is selling his 1998 Ford Mustang here in belgium before he leaves..

I think he wants 10,000 euro for it.. it's in excellent shape, has GPS and all that stuff.
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« Reply #4 on: 2004-05-28, 13:17 »
I find no excuse for this kind of crap engineering.  I do not like Mini Coopers, but engineering is engineering and the pictures do not lie.  This is 1973 all over again - big heavy gas-guzzlers being beaten out by tiny little imports, only THIS time the big heavy gas-guzzlers don't even have the benefit of being built like tanks!  I hope the Ford executives rot in hell over this.  Needlessly sacrificing lives for profit!  Sipgate - Evil
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« Reply #5 on: 2004-05-28, 20:01 »
Devil's Advocate here: Not defending the results of this test, but do you realize how often a Ford F-150 strikes something at 40mph that doesn't give way?

Counter-argument:  How does this test result pass federal guidelines?

(This coming from the guy whose sister rolled a pickup, and the cab roof bent down over the steering wheel... if she'd left her seat belt on and hadn't been thrown into the floorboards she could be dead...)
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« Reply #6 on: 2004-05-29, 06:48 »
There are plenty of telephone poles around anywhere in the continental US.  They don't give way unless you're driving a dump truck.
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« Reply #7 on: 2004-05-29, 11:42 »
dic , im more for the old mustangs without 2 many electronics in them . 196x to 197x .


about ford , 2 cars ago my dad had a ford mondeo .

while driving backwards he hitted a trashcan ( an ordinary stupid trashcan , not a container or whatever )
there was a hole in his bumper the and in the bumper you could see the much or whatever you find back in old beds .

if you would drive a volvo backwarts against a treestump or something you could drive against it withot having damage at all . and saying to yourself where the hell did i drove against this time ? .
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