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Originally Posted by Quicksilver
Oh I agree. But when someone says "The outer skin of a car supplies no structural strength or accident protection" then i tend to resist that argument as being short sighted. Especially after having owned Cadillacs in the past and knowing full well that if someone nowdays were to hit one of those things with the new cars of today i know what the results would be and believe me that Cadillac would cough and keep going.  |
It wouldn't be the Cadi's skin that did the job it's the 3 ton frame that would kill you. The skin of a modern car might protect you from a bicycle but it's the crumple zones that do the job against anything heavier.
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