RE: Misc. stuff

["Duff, Ian" <iduff@charter.com>]

Guess I'm tasting shoe leather. OTOH, CR and NBC have taken liberties
w/The Truth, still makes me use their recommendations inversely.

Ian Duff, New Bedford, MA, USA
1990 Coupe Quattro 20v

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>From: 	Stephen Williams[SMTP:mannlaw@indy.net]
>Sent: 	Tuesday, June 25, 1996 11:43 AM
>To: 	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
>Subject: 	Misc. stuff
>
>
>	While I am no fan [or reader for that matter] of Consumer 
>Reports, one comment on the Corvair and Chebby truck talk by Ian:  
>Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but, facts are sometimes helpful.
>
>	Fact is, the Corvair had some very significant handling bugs that 
>*could*, under fairly normal driving conditions, cause real problems. 
>Really, the Corvair thing isn't even something that is debated much
>anymore.
>
>	As for the side-saddle tank "explosion" problem.  Really, it is 
>less an "explosion" problem than it is a fuel-fed fire problem.  May
>want 
>to review the testimony of GM's long-time engineer and testifying
>expert, 
>Ronald Elwell, on this subject before you go too much further.  Again, 
>the debate is not whether the side-saddle tanks cause fuel-fed fires in
>
>certain collision--instead, it is focused on whether some alternative 
>design [inside frame rails, fore v. aft of rear axle, etc.,] was and is
>
>known to be safer.  BTW, I think the "rocket-engine" thing while 
>certainly whacko, was an NBC thought, not a CR thought.  
>
>	Hope this non-Audi content helps clear up some misconceptions.
>
>	Bruce
>