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One approach to safety is mass but I T-boned a mid 60s Lincoln Continental when it suddenly turned left in front of my '72 TE-27 Corolla. It's owners manual mentioned how
Toyota considered crash safety when designing it. My car suffered considerable damage. A stiff neck and some minor bruises for me. Certainly an element of luck involved. My Corolla coupe was repairable and I enjoyed it for another 80,000 miles. It was similar in size and weight to a Cadet. Back then people thought it was only MB, Saab and Volvo thinking about a robust cage with energy absorbing front and rear sections. Not so. Maybe not Opels?
A little memento from the days when Opel was cool 🏁🇩🇪
Just saw one the other day. From an era a tad before my time but certainly a car that sparks an emotional response irrespective 🦾 ...
Nice
Not blue blooded Opel but a good friend of mine had a red Calibra Turbo coupe when I was at uni and took me for spirited drives on a few occasions, I still have fond memories of that car. I also had a Corsa hatchback for a few weeks, was a great upgrade f...
The Calibra was quite sprightly at the time…
With a 2 liter turbocharged engine and AWD, it predated the rally specials some but was an interesting car indeed, including a super successful DTM V6 version 👏🏻🏁
Ah, the 155 😍🏁🇮🇹
The Calibra was closest in concept IIRC. Just prior to that the Audi V8s wreaked some havoc, too 🦾
Different times indeed 😊👍🏻👏🏻
Unfortunately many of them were also not very survivable if they touched anything solid they shouldn’t have 😉🤷🏻♂️
One approach to safety is mass but I T-boned a mid 60s Lincoln Continental when it suddenly turned left in front of my '72 TE-27 Corolla. It's owners manual mentioned how
Toyota considered crash safety when designing it. My car suffered considerable damage. A stiff neck and some minor bruises for me. Certainly an element of luck involved. My Corolla coupe was repairable and I enjoyed it for another 80,000 miles. It was sim...
Was more a general comment on the advances in automotive safety 😊
Crash protection has improved in leaps and bounds and so has the overall handling safety. I do not think the Opel was close to being a widowmaker back in the day but light cars, heavy right feet and more enthusiasm than skill led to many a one in the ditc...
Lucky you indeed 🍀
That was safety engineering almost 40 years older than the Toyotas.