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Re: [6pack] paranoid daily driver

To: <Lizirbydavis@cs.com>, <6pack@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [6pack] paranoid daily driver
From: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 16:30:46 +0100
Joe wrote

>  I wonder if I would survive a significant accident. How do these cars hold 
>up in a collision? 
> Any experience?

Joe, in jest, the obvious question is "what kind of serious accident did you 
have in mind?"

Seriously, in my experience of having seen many totalled TR's (in their very 
young days) they don't 
hold up well. Truth is, they weren't really designed to be as *energy 
absorbing* as a modern car. 
There's no significant front or rear crumple zone, there's no SIPS (side impact 
protection system) 
and all you do have is a telescoping steering column. IMHO, if you daily drive 
the TR in traffic 
conditions where you feel a bump is an inevitable likelihood just waiting to 
happen, the sooner you 
get and use something in which you feel safer and better protected, the better!

Jonmac
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