In a message dated 4/8/98 7:41:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, garyklim@snet.net
writes:
<< ad they used a concrete *WALL*, where the forces
of impact are spread evenly across the entire width of the bumper, the
results would surely have been different. >>
They did that test also.
the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that the Toyota Tacoma,
little brother to Toyota's T-100 full-size truck, sustained $4,361 in damages
over four tests. They included driving forward and backwards into a flat
barrier, forward into an angled barrier and backwards into a pole.
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