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Carfax Anyone???



I disagree.
Had they been in an Excursion/Suburban, she wouldn't even bothered to yank
the wheel....she'd just have driven right over/through you and kept going.
Wouldn't have even spilled their Perrier.
:)

Larry



> Christian Els wrote:
>
> > Sure the SUV is more likely to roll than a Jetta, and takes longer to
stop
> > from speed, and sucks more gas and is harder to park and...
>
> A couple of months ago, a carlod of high school girls in a Dodge Cirrus
> flew up behind me at about 100mph (I was doing about 75) without even
> seeing me.. the driver was distracted dicking around with her pals.  She
> looked up and saw me at the last instant, flung the wheel the right,
narrowly
> missed my ass end, but went out of control and spun a 180 back into my
> passenger side.  $3k in damage to my Passat and a similar looking mess
> on the side of her car.
>
> If they had been in an SUV - I don't want to think what the carnage would
> have been like.  Violent yank of the wheel at near 100 mph.. as
Fiederspiel
> said in "The Gauntlet", there would have been "blood and tennis rackets
all
> over the highway".  Not being in an SUV saved their collective asses.
>
> --
> Kevin Collins
> Huntington Beach, CA
> '86.5 16V 2.0
> '00 Passat GLS 1.8T
>
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