plastic cars.....motorhead...sm
Posted By: cat on 2008-01-02
In Reply to: Plastic cars - Mechanic's wife.
You're absolutely correct! All these new cars crush like juice boxes/accordians. I rather drive real steel older model cars for 2 reasons: I know how to fix 'em and keep 'em runnin', and I'd be more likely to live in the event of an accident. Now, if I just had the money to restore them appropriately. Oh well, can't have it all.  Cat
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Plastic cars fold up like an accordion absorbing impact. The metal ones bounce you forward. This is why speed limit was raised back in the 80s from 55 mph to 70 mph.
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I guess I cannot visualize that. Can he explain the outcome of each in a manner that I can understand? So, if one folds and absorbs what is it like for the people inside? If the other propels you forward, what is the signficance of that? Not dumb, (I hope), just cannot imagine what kind of damage would be sustained or avoided. Tell him thanks and if I did not have the car I do I would have a Volvo. I guess I am obsessed with car safety because I used to work on an ambulance.
Mine wasn't worth the plastic it was printed on.
It says it's activated and there's a balance available but it's been declined every time I try to use it.
Did anyone start with VitalType doing plastic surgery files?
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Sure it does. It's a myth that foreign cars are better. sm
Does anyone keep jap cars long enough to find out? We have American vehicles ranging from 2001 back to 1960. Still running. It started in the 70s when the factories started closing as goods were being made in Japan, and continued on. Now it's China and India gobbling up our jobs.
Japanese cars are too good for me - I can't use them up.
I had my Toyota Corolla 16 years, and I still only had 91,000 miles on it. Now I have a Ford. Maybe now I'll need another car in my lifetime - sheez!
I don't think MTs are running out to buy hybrid cars
It's not an incentive to sign up. They don't need to do that because word of mouth does that for them. It's more like core values of how a company operates and what they believe in.
Does credibility put food on our table, gas in our cars, and
clothes on our backs?
We must have been credible at some point in time. After all, we made good incomes because we were paid higher wages, we started MTSOs that were later bought out by the big boys with the big bucks, and we loved what we did and the product we produced. When did we lose credibility? Maybe when the big boys started offshoring? Do you think credibility will be brought back when the big boys bring our jobs back into our own country? Huh? Huh? Huh?
The same way cars that claim to be "made in America"
Some people just take a shred of truth, and spread it really really thin. But their lies should be exposed every time someone gets a chance.
And stop buying foreign cars for crying out loud. sm
Look at the 10s of thousands of workers who are being laid off from GM and Ford after giving decades of their lives. Thanks to all you people who buy foreign cars. 
Get real..... who is buying new cars, satellite dishes, video games? How about rent, utilities on t
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