[s-cars] Teen cars

[LL - NY]

I'd agree. I had a 4kq and had to go into the doors for various reasons
(window regs, door handles) and I thought the little 1 cm (less than 1/2")
diameter "side impact crash bar" of thinwall steel was a joke compared to my
earlier vintage Saab 99's heavy extruded 2 cm thickwall square sectioned
impact bar.  IF I had to crash a car (and yeah, the 4kq was dynamically
superior to the Saab) I would've picked the Saab over the 4kq, hands down.
The Saab would slice through a B3-Audi, let alone a neu-Mini. The cars are
great fun, dynamically involving, but if it were my kids (not getting into
the manual vs. auto debate, the students I work with would get their
electronic gear working no matter how involving the drive was), I wouldn't
consider them being in a B3. In that vintage, I'd have to go with the Volvo
240 (my roomies did okay with snowies), a Saab 900 (the real ones, the GM
ones seem compromised), or the 190 M-B. FWIW, has anyone considered a 2001
Subaru Impreza (NOT WRX, that'd be a mistake). A fun dynamically, involving
enough, reliable and truly crashworthy vehicle that is cheap to own. Don't
know what their current market value is, but it's worth a look see.

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:05 PM, erikaddy at yahoo.com <erikaddy at yahoo.com>wrote:

> A cgt is a nice car but as far as crash safety, a 2005 mini would slice
> through it like a hot knife through butter.
>
> Erik Addy
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