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Old 12-07-2012, 06:02 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by mcrews View Post
really surprised that they felt it was cost effective to put an airbag system in. But it does lower to help with getting in so it serves more than one purpose.
Fiat had already done it with the JEEP Grand Cherokee.I suspect that the cost of engineering and components was a 'shared-platform' type of bean-counter event.
The market will tell them if they hit one out of the park or not.
But with the 2025 CAFE standards looming ahead,this is exactly the sort of technology which will close the mpg gap.
I had SEAR's air-shocks on my El Camino and I really liked them.Full-active suspension would have been a hoot!
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