Carfax Anyone???

[pbureau@attbi.com (ATS - Patrick Bureau)]

well the explanation for this fact is simple " lower center of gravity " 
the closer you are to the ground the harder it is to flip over.

ATS - Patrick Bureau, Now prefers to drive his Rocco to His Jeep.

=>-----Original Message-----
=>From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
=>[mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Kevin Collins
=>Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 10:14 PM
=>To: Scirocco List
=>Subject: Re: Carfax Anyone???
=>
=>
=>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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