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Automotive News & Views What is "wrong" with these new subcompacts?
8691 messages, Last post on Dec 04, 2009 at 1:39 PM
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Replying to: nortsr1 (May 17, 2009 5:39 am) Let's not go down the "Small cars are unsafe" route again. The Fiesta scores 4* on EuroNCAP testing, (5* = max), that's the same as the MINI, Honda Jazz (Fit) and Honda CR-V........and others. The current version of the Chrysler Grand Voyager isn't rated but, IIRC, the previous one scored very low - 2* or 3* - and was notorious for folding in all the wrong places during impact. Being "big" does not always equate to being "safe". Good structural design is the key.
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Replying to: alltorque (May 17, 2009 6:55 am) Ford has been not as stellar in this arena in the past. |
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Replying to: alltorque (May 17, 2009 6:55 am)
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Replying to: benjaminh (May 16, 2009 11:54 am) |
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Replying to: nortsr1 (May 18, 2009 7:14 am) So, in answer to your question : no, I'm not. |
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Replying to: alltorque (May 18, 2009 11:57 am) Don't donkeys bite?  For $2500 you have a different set of rules, and competition.
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Replying to: ateixeira (May 18, 2009 12:24 pm) |
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in golf carts legally in this dinky SE Arizona town my wife and I live in. Little electric golf carts. The Nano would fit right in, might me a better and safer choice for these guys to peddle around in. One guy pokes up to the Nursing Home attached to the hospital my wife and I work in in one of these carts. Visits his wife who is in the Nursing home, every day. Lives like we all do, about a half mile from the hospital and nursing home! The Tata Nano could make it here for one.  I'd feel safer in a Nano than a real golf cart, though they've really got some strong similarities.
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get my one of my kids to work with me on making a video to lobby for one of the 100 fiesta's being lent out for 6 months for evaluation. after looking at some of the video's, she is probably too young, anyway.
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Replying to: explorerx4 (May 18, 2009 3:33 pm) For those not in the know...
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