Fwd: Re: Allroads are hitting the showrooms

[Lawrence C Leung]

Hmmm, 

Car and Driver just did that in the Jan 2001 issue. A pretty nifty
repeatable mechanism to insta-deflate of the driver's rear tire (the
statistically most likely tire to fail for the Firestone tread
separation, accotding to the article. 

End result?















No major instability, EVEN in an EXPLORER. Not convincing enough for a Q.
Too bad. 

LL - NY

On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 10:10:19 +0100 Per Lindgren <lindgre at online.no>
writes:
>
>
>Chris Dyer wrote:
>
>> I always thought that the most convincing anti-suv TV ad a car co. 
>(like
>> audi, subie, olvoV, etc.) could do is simply show the suv & 
>hybrid/wagon (a
>> la allroad) competing in a bunch of tests. Drag to 60, slalom, 
>braking, and
>> last: emergency lane change. Doink, truckee go over. "Think your SUV 
>is
>> safer than a car?"
>
>They could just arrange to have the left front tire on an Explorer and 
>Allroad blow out,
>and see which stays on the road.....
>
>PerL
>92 Cab 2.3
>