Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/08/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually as contemporary cars went they were not bad in safety. Nothing was that good in that era but the design of the mini shell was miles better than anything else at the time, and was much copied later. The VW beetle was about the worst IIRC but even the vast cars of the era were not designed with crash safety in mind. Modern cars are very good at passing the tests, how much better they are in real-life accidents I do not know, but as long as trucks and cars share the same roads, and 4x4s continue to be popular as normal transport, the real-life accidents are -not- like the tests because of bumper height. The whole thing is a bit of a farce really. The pedestrian impact rules apply to cars, which have to have to have low bumpers to make sure a pedestrian is not knocked under the vehicle, and "soft" bonnets (hoods) so as to minimise injury to the scooped-up pedestrian. Since trucks and 4x4 (SUV) are fashionable, and don't need to comply, it is a joke. Anyway something is better than nothing! The new mini is 2.5x heavier than the old one, most of this is mild steel added to pass tests. The rest is luxury kit. It needs about 3x the power to match the performance... Frank On 18 Aug, 2011, at 01:14, scleroplex wrote: > the old small ones had the worst safety rating of any car on earth. > > so the new ones are much better in that regard. > > we can still enjoy the look of the old ones :-) > bharani > > Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:18:39 +0100 > From: Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> > Subject: Re: [Leica] red mini > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Message-ID: <4B03DA25-5755-4493-9C53-FEDD90B9DFD8 at btinternet.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > The new ones are made near here. I often wonder if anybody told the > new owners that "mini" is English for small. > FD > > On 17 Aug, 2011, at 01:09, Jim Shulman wrote: > >> Love it--a REAL Mini! >> >> Jim >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org >> [mailto:lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org] On >> Behalf Of >> scleroplex >> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 8:07 PM >> To: lug at leica-users.org >> Subject: [Leica] red mini >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/scleroplex/red+mini.jpg.html >> >> :-) >> bharani > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information