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Originally Posted by island911
true - more metal, more volume, are expensive to haul around. ... but so too are hospital bills and recovery time if you get hit, when driving some econo-box. (read: ping-pong ball)
congrats on the W140. They really are exceptional in so many subtle ways.
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I get a lot of satisfaction knowing that to kill someone inside of a w140 takes serious munitions or a speeding cement mixer. In the Princess Diana death car, the one person wearing a seatbelt survived an ~80mph frontal crash into an immovable object, dead center. He was in the front passenger seat and totally survived his injuries. Un-freaking believable. That's almost plane crash impact.
An old HS friend of mine suffered an unimaginable tragedy over the winter in Minnesota when he lost control of his Ford Escort on an icy highway, crossed the center line and was T-boned on the passenger side by an oncoming SUV. He lost his 13 y.o. daughter in the crash, she was sitting in passenger front seat. He is a school teacher raising a family on limited $$ and needless to say, he picked the wrong place to economize in the household budget.
Would she have survived in a Volvo? We'll never know.