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Originally Posted by rmay635703
American car companies were arguing that cars that passed crash tests in the US were superior to Euro cars and there was no reason for them to test for entry to Euro markets.
They had a 3rd party do tests to the Euro standards on cars that passed here and then hushed the results because our cars failed the crash tests.
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Interesting... But anyway, crash safety has never been enforced so strictly in my POS of a country. Airbags became mandatory for most light-duty vehicles, but in many of the penalty boxes sold here it's roughly like wiping an ice cube due to their poorly-dimensioned structures.