Re: Audi snubbed again

[Andrew Duane USG/PE <duane@zk3.dec.com>]

Hairy green toads from Mars made Matt Bartholomew say:

> >For the curious, if you're driving the passat and you get into an
> >offset crash - don't plan on walking again.
> 
> This surprised me somewhat...I'd like to see how a Golf or Jetta does.

Well, I have a datapoint there. My first Golf, a 1985, was in
a 40MPH offset frontal frash, where the "barrier" was a 1978
Plymouth Station Wagon that plowed into my driver's front corner.

Final Score:

My Golf was wrecked (but bought and spliced/repaired), while the
Plymouth was barely dinged. But, I walked away without a scratch,
and the driver of the Plymouth (with his seatbelt on) went to the
hospital for many days.


> Matt
> '88 5000tq - no air bag and damn proud of it!

'89 100Q - Ditto!

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