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Arragonis · 01-25-2010, 10:42 AM

The ForTwo sales have been dropping for a while here in Europe. Safety doesn't seem to be an issue for most people but stability can be. I did see one on the wet, cobbled streets of Edinburgh manage to plow straight on and took out a parked Audi when they first came out.

I had one of these for a while :

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ewoo_Matiz.jpg

which also had extremely skinny tyres and it felt unsafe on those cobbled streets. Mind you it also had a body made of such thin metal that a dent remover working on the bonnet (hood) just used his fingers, no tools!

01-25-2010, 10:42 AM	#43 (permalink)
Arragonis The PRC. Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Elsewhere. Posts: 5,304 Thanks: 285 Thanked 536 Times in 384 Posts	The ForTwo sales have been dropping for a while here in Europe. Safety doesn't seem to be an issue for most people but stability can be. I did see one on the wet, cobbled streets of Edinburgh manage to plow straight on and took out a parked Audi when they first came out. I had one of these for a while : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ewoo_Matiz.jpg which also had extremely skinny tyres and it felt unsafe on those cobbled streets. Mind you it also had a body made of such thin metal that a dent remover working on the bonnet (hood) just used his fingers, no tools! __________________ [I]So long and thanks for all the fish.[/I]