On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 20:03:35 -0400, Lennart wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 06:09:10PM +0200, Moss wrote: > > Mandatory here. > > Here too. Not sure when it became that way. Way too many design > decisions are based on cost in north america for cars, and not enough > on safe sensible design. > > > I always thought that to be mandatory in the US - that's one of > > the things regularly to be changed if you (re-)import cars from > > the US to Germany. And yes, it _is_ insane. > > Many north american models have combined turn/brake, but many don't. > Some models will change from one model year to another and then back > for no apparent reason (other than their designers are either borred, > stupid, or most likely both, or at least the people in charge of > design choices are.) > > Now having seperate circuits and fuses for left and right sides of the > cars lights, is not something I expect to see in north america anytime > soon. You burn out a fuse on a north american car, you should not > expect to have any lights left on your car (and might loose the radio, > wipers and a few otehr unrelated things at the same time.) Of course > guessing which of the many systems sharing the fuse is the cause is > another fun job that comes later on. :) > > > So, german cars are all unsafe. Seatbelts are mandatory here. > > I hope they are mandetory everywhere by now. > > > Huh? I'm driving a (somewhat aged, by now ;-) Saab 900i, which has > > the engine in front. Same with the newer 9^3 and 9^5 models. Do > > they have completely different Saabs over there? > > The rear engined models are before the 900. I think Saab 96 or > something like that might have been one of them. Not like that modern > 900 you have. :) ..AFAIK, SAAB has never made any rear wheel drive or engine vehicles other than the J21: ;-) http://www.google.com/search?q=SAAB+J21 -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case.
