> Chrysler Corp. spokesman Mike Rosenu [...]
> said the automaker already has implemented its new hydroforming
> technology in the 1998 Dodge Durango and 1997 Dakota
> It makes the vehicle lighter by taking out the unnecessary weight - thus
> making it safer for car drivers if involved in a collision - but does not
> affect its strength, he said.
The sounds like a line of BS to me. They want to cut weight for CAFE
and cost reasons, that I can understand. But this safety bit is all
politics. If anything, cutting mass from the vehicle will actually make
it more UNSAFE in a collision for that vehicle's driver & passengers.
CC is just trying to deflect all the crap people are spouting about SUVs
being menaces on the road, and unsafe because they are bigger. Could that
be because they are actually descended from trucks? No duh!
Ron "Take That Econobox And Shove It" Rader
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