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Old 06-15-2008, 06:53 AM
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Originally Posted by dan
i'm not talking about injury rates. anyone with a brain knows the new cars are safer. new cars are so riddled with crumple zones and other misc cheap plastic shit, that it's a tradeoff. old cars were pretty safe still, even among today's standards (if you wore a seatbelt back then), because they were built tough. you could barely dent half the cars out. today, most stuff is meant to break and be fully replaced, but there's a cost tradeoff between one and the other.
the only tradeoff between new and old cars, is that in old cars, the car would survive but you wouldnt, and in new cars, you survive while the car wont.




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