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Originally Posted by RH77
Meanwhile, I can see Ralph Nader blowing a gasket...
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Best thing that could happen to that... well, anything I could say would probably be filtered out :-) But his attitudes aren't ones I share. Passive safety is way down near the bottom of things I look for in a car.
Lutz has some good points, even if he's years late in making them: why shouldn't the US and Europe have common standards? It would save a lot of duplicated effort, and let us get some halfway decent cars in this country. Which is a safety issue after all: how badly is the collective safety of the US degraded by high fuel costs & dependence on foreign oil?
(High fuel costs aren't the same as high gas prices, BTW. At $4/gallon, my fuel costs in my Insight are less than what they would be in an SUV at $1.50.)
As for the Corvette being a sports car, or needing a 600 hp engine to be one, just consider what Lotus & Porsche do with less than half that, or what REAL sports cars like the '50s & '60s Austin-Healeys, MGs, and their like did with a hundred or so.