mlc
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Peter,
I was commenting on the sanity of allowing a novice drive a high performance car. You are fooling yourself if you think a head on collision at high speed is survivable. I seem to remember a very famous Princess had an accident in an S class in Paris, the sad score on that night was concrete support posts 3 survivers 1 - and that was with life time injurys, and that was a glancing blow. At the time MB felt required to point out that their car had offered more protection than could be expected from the competion. QED.
I think the point you are missing is that whilst the TT or other well built car gives more protection than a Ka or a Saxo that is far outweighed by the potential speed and acceleration of the car. No body ever crashed a mini 850 doing a ton - cos they didnt go that fast!! so the fact that the TT gives more protection at a 100 than the old mini is irrelevant.
Mark.
I was commenting on the sanity of allowing a novice drive a high performance car. You are fooling yourself if you think a head on collision at high speed is survivable. I seem to remember a very famous Princess had an accident in an S class in Paris, the sad score on that night was concrete support posts 3 survivers 1 - and that was with life time injurys, and that was a glancing blow. At the time MB felt required to point out that their car had offered more protection than could be expected from the competion. QED.
I think the point you are missing is that whilst the TT or other well built car gives more protection than a Ka or a Saxo that is far outweighed by the potential speed and acceleration of the car. No body ever crashed a mini 850 doing a ton - cos they didnt go that fast!! so the fact that the TT gives more protection at a 100 than the old mini is irrelevant.
Mark.