Anecdotal evidence...I've seen plenty of cars destroyed in similar
situations...I wasn't trying to say that ALL frame constructions are unsafe
or that all unibodies are good, but in GENERAL, it is easier to produce
good crumple zones in unibodies.  The advantage that frames have is that
they're stiff and heavy.  That's not necessarily what you want, though.
The US goverment crash test might say that frame construction is good in a
lot of cases, but I wouldn't trust a damn thing that NHTSA says.  Those
people have their heads so far up their asses that they can eat last nights
supper before it hits the small intestine.



At 05:33 PM 2/17/00 GMT, Justin LaFord wrote:
>my brother was in reno 2 years back when they had the big riots at hot 
>august nights, anyways there was a supra there one of the last ones and the 
>guy was doing a burnout and the throttle cable stuck wide open. my brother 
>saw him comming down the street he had the brakes on as hard as he could, 
>and was just starting to reach up and turn the car off, and the asss end 
>came around and it hit a brand new 4-runner limited right at the drivers 
>rear door, it completely ripped the rear axle out of it the supra ended up 
>getting fixed, but the 4-runner was demolished. my brother had some pictures 
>of it they were pretty impresive, both the burnout and the wreck, my what 
>raw energy can do to poorly built vehicals
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