Re: Air bags, safty, SUVs and today's NY Times - low Audi content

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I went the other way after watching a 4runner destroy itself (rolling down the interstate) and kill the driver (the passenger and the deer lived ) 
after swerving to avoid a deer when I was coming home from work early one morning.  I'd heard about and seen the footage of Consumer Reports articles 
stating that SUV's have a tendency to tip.  I hadn't given the reports a whole lot of credence after the shit Audi took over the 5k, but the 4runner 
wasn't speeding and was on an exceptionally smooth (read newly sealed) part of the interstate so I know it didn't hit a heave in the road causing it to 
flip.  It's CG was just too high.  I'd rather take my chances in an Audi.  You can't worry about all the possibilities.

Arryn.




On 09/25/97 17:06:45 you wrote:
>
>Guys (and Gals?),
>
>I just read a very disturbing article in today's NY Times regarding the
>danger that SUV may pose
>to cars. It looks like in a crash between a car and a light truck/SUV,
>the car doesn't stand a chance. 
>Part of this is due to weight difference, and part of it the height
>difference. 
>
>Safty is one of the big reason that I have an Audi A6, and not the
>Passat or A4, but I wonder now how
>safe it really is in the US where there are lots of trucks. Does any
>know how good Audi's are regarding
>side impact protection?
>
>The article is very long, so I can only provide some summary here:
>
>. An Chrysler Concorde was T boned by a Chevy Suburban. The Concorde is
>pushed 50 feet into a tree,
>driver died, passenger seriously hurt. Not much happened to the
>Suburban. 
>(The concorde is a big car, 3300lbs. But it look completely distroyed
>because the the Suburban is
>very tall)
>
>. in 93 the German equivalent of AAA performed a crash test involving a
>near head on collision between
>a VW Golf and a Nissan SUV at 31mph. The result? The Nissan's front
>grill is now at where the Golf's
>dash use to be. Head injury reading for the dummy in the Golf is 3177
>(1000 considered fatal).
>
>. If you hit a Suburban in an Accord, you are 13 times more likely to
>die.
>
>. Some accident investigator, after seeing so many accidents, now drives
>a SUV and says "SUVs are great
>for the people who have them"
>
>All I can say is, drive carefully out there and watch out for those SUVs
>and light trucks.
>
>Xudong
>
>