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Great C&D article to understand this stuff:
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/free-…
HammerheadFistpunch
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08/16/2013 at 15:41 |
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Thanks for this, its a good easy read for understanding the differences in markets as well as the challenges that face the industry in getting rid of the barriers between the two. I read it in print but didn't know it was digital yet.
Victorious Secret
> cuts_off_prius
08/16/2013 at 16:10 |
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I always love to bring up this little bit when people say European engineered cars are superior.
The hell they are. They are inferior.
Global cars, ones engineered for America (because we tend to have tighter regs for the most part) are the ones everyone drives.
Apart from Euro specific cars that just never come over here, and quite honestly they can stay there.
If they want a Free Trade agreement they also need a global rulebook for automotive engineering. But that won't happen because any time you so much as suggest that the entire world follow a single rulebook everyone screams Stalin or Castro or whatever it is the kids these days say.
IFTNFS
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08/16/2013 at 16:52 |
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Is there a number for what the U.S. requires for pedestrian impact protection, or are there no such requirements currently? I'm thinking it would have to be 3-4" because we're so much heavier... haha