Ferrari Mailing List: Re: GM & Corvette NFC

[Doug and Terri Anderson (dnt]

Two things -
First F=MA.  So drive a Smart Car close to 300 mph and you should be able to 
drive thru anything - heh heh

As far as the Smarts go - I really did like they way they were marketed in 
Italy in 1999 - a ten story glass tower made up of four Smart car 
compartments per story.  Cute.

DOUG



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Conforti" <lndshrk [at] xmission.com>
To: "DOUG" <dnt [at] dock.net>
Cc: <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] GM & Corvette NFC


> At 02:20 PM 6/4/2009, you wrote:
> > Nothing wrong with the Fit, I was part of the design team for the
> > emissions system...
>
>   Nothing wrong with the emissions system, I'm sure.
>
>   I'll bet your team did a bang up job - or it wouldn't have
>   passed the FTP-75, the US-06, or the SC-03.
>
>   (Ergo: they wouldn't be selling them)
>
>   Would you like to be the crash dummy in a test of a Fit
>   versus my BMW M3?  (Or any other average size well-built
>   car out there - including a Accord, Camry, a Lexus ES, etc)
>
>   Here is what the IIHS said - Accord vs Fit:
>
> Honda Accord versus Fit: The structure of the Accord held up well in
> the crash test into the Fit, and all except one measure of injury
> likelihood recorded on the driver dummy's head, neck, chest, and both
> legs were good. In contrast, a number of injury measures on the dummy
> in the Fit were less than good. Forces on the left lower leg and
> right upper leg were in the marginal range, while the measure on the
> right tibia was poor. These indicate a high risk of leg injury in a
> real-world crash of similar severity. In addition, the dummy's head
> struck the steering wheel through the airbag. Intrusion into the
> Fit's occupant compartment was extensive. Overall, this minicar's
> rating is poor in the front-to-front crash, despite its good
> crashworthiness rating based on the Institute's frontal offset test
> into a deformable barrier. The Accord earns good ratings for
> performance in both tests.
>
>   It's PHYSICS, Erik - small lightweight car vs anything else
>   larger, and more heavyweight.
>
>   Passengers in "small lightweight" car LOSE.
>
>   Sometimes they lose it ALL.
>
>   I'm old enough - and have a good enough memory to remember this
>   happening at least twice in my lifetime.  Might actually have
>   been THREE times.
>
>   The big PUSH to "smaller" cars.
>
>   VW Beetles/etc - Dodge Omni's/VW Rabbits - now the Smart/Fit/etc.
>
>   So yeah - THREE times in my lifetime, IIRC
>
>   And invariably - with horrible results as to crash safety.
>
>   No amount of Obama, his "Auto Task Force", the libs, the greenies,
>   Al Gore, the MSM, or the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) nee cum
>   "Global Climate Change" religion - dancing around and proclaiming
>   that "SMALL is BIG" are going to change that.
>
>   Smaller LOSES on the street vs LARGER.
>
>
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