Sherman, Paul (CEOSH) wrote: > The only problem with the "Unsafe.." analogy... > > It was fundamentally inaccurate; the Corvair was > actually pretty safe.
When I was an undergraduate I drove a Fiat 850 Sports Coupe - great little car - which had the same mechanical layout as the Corvair (engine behind the rear wheels, swing axle rear suspension) and the same sort of, err, interesting handling characteristics (as did every Renault 8 and Renault 10 and nearly every Porsche for decades). But it was the driver of that Fiat which was fundamentally unsafe... Tim C
