Re: NEW RONIN Movie..!!!! rippin' Audi S8 quattro!!!!!

[Orin Eman <orin@wolfenet.com>]

> Yep.  You know aluminium...so tough!  Stands up to those nasty steel
> bullets so well...heck, you shouldn't need a trip to a special body
> shop(recommendable by your nearest dealer) until you've had at _least_ 3
> gunfights.

They go right thru steel cars too.  Better be wearing a bullet proof vest
if you are hiding behind _any_ car door hoping for it to shield you.

> I'd be willing to bet they had to be extra careful with special effects
> charges for bullet strikes(which are BS in themselves, the bullets would go
> in one end and out the other; ever shot bb's at soda cans?  Aluminium is
> _very_ soft, and easily dented.

Soda cans are _very_ thin and don't compare.

> Aluminium is a great choice for weight reduction, but it means that parking
> lots are going to be disasters.  Anyone seen the saturn commercial with the
> baseball lesson?  Picture that with an A8 :o

The thing about aluminium is that you can get the _same_ strength with
less weight.  Without doing some calibrated bashing of an A8, I
personally couldn't say that it would hold up better or worse than steel
to your average parking lot door bashing.

Orin.