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Originally Posted by harmitage
Absoloutely right. I suspect that the plastic body may not have offered much protection against Mrs 4X4 putting make up on or Mr 4X4 reading his map.
I'm sure though I read somewhere that you could manipulate the statistics to "prove" that the C5 was the safest road vehicle.
The stats probably didn't inlude the people who died laughing when they saw one though.  |
There were very few 4x4s on the road in the 80s, thankfully, and those few that were around were not being used for the school run.
It wouldn't be too difficult to show the C5 to be 'safe' as there were so few of them on the road compared to other vehicles. So long as the few in use kept out of trouble it would be easy for them to appear to have a very good record. Pretty much like Concorde actually, which was the world's safest civilian airliner until one crashed, when it became one of the world's most unsafe.