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To: Abathar
...went out and photoed my 96 Suburban with 197k miles on it.

I was rear-ended by an older Dodge Neon last year while stopped in Bloomington Indiana (IU hometown) and the girl who hit me had a couple of Obama stickers still on her car. She managed to hit me directly on my Free Republic bumper sticker, which I kind of found funny because they had to tow her car away and as you can see I didn't bother to fix mine, in fact she didn't even tear my bumper sticker.

Your example is another reason why I like my Jeep Wrangler:

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161 posted on 04/12/2010 9:00:44 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: Inyo-Mono

Solidly built trucks/jeeps are great in fender benders with regular cars, but if you’re ever in a serious collision with another vehicle or solid object you might wish you had those crumple zones that the cars have. This is the reason that many of those types of vehicles rate poorly in crash testing. If the vehicle doesn’t absorb the impact, your body will.

I miss my old Volvo 245 wagon, which was a gutless piece of crap in many ways, but had really solid bumpers on it that could take repeated fender-bender type impacts without any damage. I wish they still made cars like that, but styling, weight, and aerodynamics concerns have given us the type of bumpers we get on cars these days which are destroyed if you even look at them the wrong way.


171 posted on 04/13/2010 6:52:23 AM PDT by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like ox.)
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