Re: Must See! Beautiful Pre-Production Tango!

["Thomas J Webster" <ford1929@frontiernet.net>]

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From: "John Bryan" <jbryan4@mindspring.com>
To: <ev@listproc.sjsu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: Must See! Beautiful Pre-Production Tango!


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>
> Victor Tikhonov wrote:
> >
> > It is obviously safer for occupants in case of collision between
> > heavy SUV and light car. Think of the impact.
>
> In a light car you don't need to think of having any impact,
> you can just maneuver around the obstacles. The SUV driver doesn't
> have this option and must simply bash head on into the obstacle.
>
> > This souls not justify usage of SUV as a commuter but for
> > instance my wife said in SUV I feel more like in a armored
> > protection car - it will get a really high speed impact of
> > a light car to impact SUV driver. Hard to argue. He transports
> > kids in it all the time.
>
> The fact that kids are being transported makes it even more
> important to transport them in a fashion that is sustainable over the
> long term. After being transported in SUVs everywhere, while they are
> growing up, how healthy would their city's air be to breathe by the
> time they're old enough to get their own SUVs.
>
> > Chris Pollard wrote:
> > >
> > > How can replacing a small car with a giant SUV with blacked out
windows make
> > > things safer and less congested?
>
> I think the blacked out windows may be from shame. I would need them
> if I drove an SUV.
>
> Maybe Milan and other Italian cities plagued by pollution and congestion
> should import SUVs to keep everyone safer under those congested driving
conditions?
> Either that, or import Tangos, Sparrows, and other tiny EVs to lower the
> congestion and pollution.
>
> Seeya,
> John
>
> If congress pasted a law that suv's had to be used for work and not for
driving to a coffee shop. SUV sales would drop 60%  I had a 1983 chevy
suburban 2wd. I could out meanuver with then most people in their compact
cars. Their are some truck/SUV drivers that know what they are doing.
- Tom